Security Solution Specialist

Security Solution Specialist

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Job Summary
**A Brief Overview**

**Job Description**:
**What you will do**:

- Identifies, designs, tests, and installs new and emerging security technologies.
- Defines, validates, and programs a wide-range of security devices.
- Tests, analyzes, and recommends new technologies as potential components of the information technology security strategy, and establishes security performance baselines and audits measurements.
- Develops implementation procedures for upgrades and integration of new technologies.
- Leads the implementation, verification, and acceptance testing of new security technologies, and provides project status reports.
- Recommends and provides input to solution design and delivery steps, deployment phases, and quality assurance guidelines.
- Translates requirements into detailed design documents and technical specifications documents.

**Required Education**:

- Four-Year Bachelor Degree or equivalent. In addition, requires trade certification, qualification, or on-going learning to remain ahead of changes in technology or emerging fields.

**Required Experience**:

- More than 5 years of experience.
- Experience with Microsoft security and compliance tools (e.g. Microsoft 365 Defender, Purview) considered an asset.
- Experience with operating systems technologies considered an asset (e.g., Linux OS, Windows OS, AD Forests, Domains, Trusts, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy and Organizational Units, VMware, VM backups tools, etc.).
- Experience with scripting and programming languages is considered an asset (e.g. PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, KQL).
- Experience with communication protocols, hardware, and real time operating system programming considered an asset (e.g., IP, TCP, POP3, etc.).
- Experience in cloud computing environment considered an asset (e.g., Platform-as-a-service (PAAS), Infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS), Software-as-a-service (SAAS), etc.).

**Required Licenses and Certifications**:

- Infosec security certification considered an asset.
- A related IT administrator/developer/architect certification is considered an asset.
- Consideration may be given to an equivalent combination of education and experience.

**Job Knowledge and Requirements**:

- Knowledge of concepts and principles in a specialist field that is typically acquired through a combination of advanced professional or academic qualifications and/or significant work experience.
- Provide expert advice, guidance and consultation on highly complex issues and/or where the outcome may be contentious.
- Interaction with others requires highly developed interpersonal skills to effectively persuade, negotiate, counsel, and/or consult.
- Adapt messages to meet the different needs of different audiences.
- Prioritize and distribute work to deliver objectives on time and to the highest standard.
- Identify in advance when the intended results may not be achieved and develops a plan to address the gaps.
- Lead team and project meetings and develop team/unit and departmental project plans.
- Lead procedural or technological change within a unit or across broader university functions.
- Identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of work processes.
- Anticipate complex challenges to ensure activities are completed on time.
- Effectively leverage relevant data as input to making decisions.
- Appropriately assess risks before making a decision.
- Comprehensive understanding of what sexual violence, harassment and discrimination are, and their varying effects on diverse members of the community.
- Question and take appropriate steps to address attitudes, macroaggressions and other behaviours which are discriminatory. Acknowledges and respects diverse cultural traditions, abilities and beliefs.

Employment Equity and Accessibility Statement

**Skills**

**Reference**
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