Junior Cyber Analyst

Payments Canada allows employees to work in an environment that best promotes their health and productivity, while providing quality in-person events and office experience. We aim to hire locally within the greater Ottawa and Toronto regions.
- Get to Know Us

We are a unique organization at the center of the payments ecosystem and Canadian economy. We are responsible for balancing and leading in an environment of multiple interests, ideas and challenges. We successfully navigate these challenges by adhering to a set of values that in themselves are tensions: Think Big + Act Responsibly, Be Ambitious + Raise the Team, Keep Momentum + Be Rigorous.

In 2021, we cleared and settled more than 8 billion transactions, totaling $135 trillion, or $539 billion each business day.
- Our Culture
We are a collaborative, diverse and passionate group of individuals. We support one another, make impactful contributions to the organization, and develop and nurture meaningful connections across our ecosystem

Come and join us - Where payments meet purpose

|About the role
Reporting to the Manager, Security Operations, the Junior Cyber Analyst is responsible for supporting the overall cyber security program and conducting ongoing analysis in partnership with internal business leaders. They work as a tier 1 analyst in the security operations team supporting the Detect and Respond security functions, analyze security-related system logs and reports to identify information security events requiring further investigation, and acts as the first line of support in areas of security operations including the identification, detection and response to cyber security incidents.

|What You’ll Do
- Review and respond to security alerts and events to determine root cause;
- Perform rudimentary threat hunting as guided by threat intelligence and tier 2 analysts;
- Perform content analysis on intercepted malware, network packet captures, and endpoint collection (e.g. memory dumps, files systems, configurations).
- Assist in the refinement and development of detection use cases;
- Review of security assessments, security designs, and network architecture to develop an understanding of Payments Canada networks;
- Review of threat intelligence, announced vulnerabilities/exploits and new detection techniques;
- Provide security advice to IT and business areas, and assist in the writing and review of organizational; security policies to support internal control (access management, contingency planning and testing, security awareness, intrusion detection, patch management, anti-virus, etc.);
- Provide assistance to cyber analysts and senior cyber analysts in the conduct of security testing and security assessments.

|Minimum Qualifications
- Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent work experience;
- Ability to work outside of regular working hours based on operational requirements;
- Ability to participate in on-call rotation;
- Ability to work shift work as required;
- Government of Canada Level II Secret Clearance or eligibility to obtain.

|Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in IT support, system administration, and/or security operations is considered an asset;
- Bilingualism (English and French) is considered an asset;
- Industry certification (CISSP, CISA, PSP, ISO 27001) is considered an asset.

|Salary Range
**Based on qualifications and experience**: $63,751 and $79689
- Payments Meets Purpose - What you can expect from us
- Flexible hybrid (remote/office) environment;
- Competitive compensation package, including annual variable bonus and defined contribution pension plan with employer matching percentage (if eligible);
- Comprehensive health and dental benefit coverage, including mental health coverage, life insurance and a health spending account for you and your dependents (if eligible);
- Paid time off: minimum four weeks paid vacation, sick and personal days, December Holiday Shutdown and Cultural Holiday Observance Days;
- Paid maternity and parental leave top-up;
- Rewards and recognition program.

|Our Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Commitment
At Payments Canada, we are committed to making everyone feel they can be themselves and thrive at work. We will continue to build on a foundation of respect and appreciation for diversity in all forms and collectively create an inclusive and equitable culture where our differences are valued.