IT Security Consultant 1

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  • Toronto, ON
  • Contract
  • Full-time
  • 2 days ago
As a Tier 1 Security Consultant in our SOC, you’ll be the frontline gatekeeper of our security environment, you are ahead of the curve. With your investigative mind you thrive on identifying, assessing, qualifying and escalating events, or security incidents that could potentially impact our complex environment, applications and infrastructures. You aren’t afraid to dive in, communicate your findings and make recommendations in an effective and timely manner.By utilizing your cyber security, systems and IT security controls experience, this role will provide you the opportunity to develop into a fully competent security professional in areas of security operations, managed detection and response, incident response, risk management, SIEM, SOAR and AI technologies.If collaboration, innovation, constant growth and learning all while getting your hands on the newest technologies in fast-paced, complex environments sounds exciting, this could be just the role for you!What you’ll do
● As part of the 24x7 Security Operations Center team, you will:
● Be a part of a collaborative and supportive team that is required to work on a 24/7/365 rotating shift schedule
● Utilize your cyber security skills to perform alert monitoring, triage, investigation and escalation
● Perform high quality security investigations, escalations and reports
● Perform or recommend basic incident response containment actions or escalate to when required
● Respond to and action all inquiries, phone calls and service requests received
● Attend meetings and present security monitoring reports
● Make recommendations for use case tuning opportunities
● Document processes and procedures
● Analyze complex problems, collaborate with other security teams
● Strong verbal and written communicator, analytical thinker and lifelong learner
● Act as subject matter expert on all SOC security issues, analyze complicated investigations and present them to the teamWhat you bring
● 3+ years of experience working in SOC environment
● 2+ years of experience in responding to security incidents leveraging Crowdstrike Falcon platform
● Currently in possession of a Canadian Government Secret Security Clearance
● Ability to perform security investigations on multiple platforms and technologies
● Knowledge of the latest security attacks being used by threat actors
● Working knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, Servers, Firewalls, IDS/IPS, EDR, AI Technologies
● Self-motivation and accountability on technical projects
● Ability to perform or recommend security incident response containment actions
● Good familiarity with security and compliance standards
● Detail oriented mindset
● Should have passion for information security and have a desire to learn new things
● Ability to work with limited supervision and manage time effectively
● High energy level, comfortable contributing to projects in conjunction with day-to-day activities
● Availability to work 24X7x365 rotating shifts if required, participate in escalation calls
● University degree preferred but college diploma acceptable in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering or similar disciplines.Must-Have Skills (min. 3 skills please):
1. Crowdstrike 3+ years hands-on experience
2. 24/7 SOC shift work experience
3. PaloAlto XSOAR experience
4. GoC Secret ClearanceGreat-to-haves
  • Cybersecurity certifications
  • Palo Alto XSOAR, Google SecOps, Crowdstrike experience
  • Experience with GCP, Azure and AWS Cloud Platforms
  • Written and verbal fluency in English and French

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