Job Opportunities Senior Information Security Analyst Incident Response
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Job Description
Job ID:9462
Working Business Language: This role is considered a head-office role and will be required to communicate with internal stakeholders across Canada where the primary business language utilized is English.
Salary: At Wawanesa salary is only one component of a holistic comprehensive and competitive offering that we provide to our addition to salary full-time and part-time permanent employees are eligible for an annual bonus plan leave of absence top-up programs and provided with generous vacation time personal days premium free benefits and pension plan.
The salary offered for this role is determined with consideration to various factors including but not limited to: your work location local labour market conditions external market salary data internal pay equity and the knowledge skills experience and anticipated proficiency in the role. The salary offered is estimated to be within the following range: $85 000 - $110 000. Candidates with salary expectations outside of the range are still encouraged to apply.
About Us
At Wawanesa were proud to offer a hybrid work environment that offers flexibility to our employees in balancing in-office (2 days per week OR 15 hours per week in a Wawanesa office) and remote may work from any of the following locations: Winnipeg MB; Wawanesa MB;Vancouver BC; Calgary AB; Edmonton AB; Lethbridge AB; Toronto ON; Kitchener ON; Thunder Bay ON; Ottawa ON; Montreal QC; Moncton NB; Dartmouth; NS
The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company (Wawanesa Mutual) founded in 1896 is one of Canadas largest mutual insurers with over $3.5 billion in annual revenue and assets of $10 billion (CAD). Wawanesa Mutual with its National Headquarters in Winnipeg is the parent company of Wawanesa Life which provides life insurance products and services throughout Canada and Western Financial Group which distributes personal and business insurance across Canada. Wawanesa proudly serves more than 1.7 million members in Canada and we are home to more than 3600 employees distributed across the Canadian regions and communities where we operate. We give back to organizations that strengthen communities donating more than $3.5 million annually to charitable organizations including over $2 million annually in support of people on the front lines of climate change. To learn more visit .
We are currently looking for dedicated driven and enthusiastic individuals who thrive in an environment that welcomes change and are looking for an opportunity for diverse experience and advancement on a growing team.
Job Overview
This is an exciting time to join Wawanesas Information Security team! We are adding to our incident response capability. This role is within our Cyber Threat Management team: a collaborative group of analysts responsible for threat detection incident response and cyber threat intelligence. This role is for an incident handler focused on monitoring new alerts providing analysis and investigation of suspected incidents and reporting on our activities. You will work with many different data sources and threat detection systems and maintain a high degree of situational awareness of cyber threats. Your timely consistent and thorough response to those threats keeps our company safe.
To thrive in this team you are someone that is curious friendly respectful and supportive. You have an investigators mindset: looking for clues and following evidence to verify if our systems are under threat and acting to protect them. You are capable of working with minimal supervision but frequently collaborate together with others in the Cyber Threat Management and other teams to achieve our shared goals.
Job Responsibilities
- Detecting and assessing threats and incidents and determining their impact to Wawanesas business operations employees or facilities
- Works with the information security team to develop strategies and plans to enforce security requirements and address identified risks.
- Participate in multi-step breach and investigative analysis to trace the dynamic activities associated with advanced threats.
- Perform investigation and escalation for complex or high severity security threats or incidents.
- Work with other security partners for developing and refining threat detection rules
- Work on complex tasks assigned by leadership which may involve coordination of effort among different analysts.
- Coordinate evidence/data gathering and documentation and review Security Incident reports.
- Assist in defining and driving security initiatives.
- Create and develop detection and response processes and procedures working with different levels of analysts.
- Provide recommendations for improvements to Wawanesas Security Policy Procedures and Architecture based on operational insights.
- Define and assist in creation of operational and executive reports.
- Maintain up-to-date procedure documentation for incident and threat management.
- Identify and assist with implementation of products and tools to ensure security of our infrastructure and applications collaborating with all areas of IS to harden our environment.
- Interact with all levels within the organization to ensure activities are understood and completed appropriately.
- Participate in incident response on-call rotation.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Completion of Post-Secondary education from an accredit institution in Cyber Security Information Technology or a related field.
- At least 3 years of Information Technology experience with at least 2 years of experience in cyber security operations threat detection or incident response.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity incident response and threat modelling frameworks.
- Practical experience with SPL KQL SQL regex and/or other search and pattern matching languages.
- Experience with one or more of the following:
- Cloud computing with AWS or Azure.
- Familiarity with network-based services client/server applications mobile applications enterprise systems and infrastructure network architecture and security infrastructure.
- Understanding of firewalls proxies SIEM antivirus and IDPS concepts.
- Understanding of security controls such as encryption identity and access management and vulnerability scanning.
- A background in AWS cloud and/or AWS security tools is a strong asset.
- Ability to take initiative and respond with an appropriate sense of urgency.
- Ability to build and maintain high credibility with all business partners.
- Ability to document and explain technical concepts and details clearly and concisely.
- Ability to adjust priorities and manage time in an environment of change.
- Strong analytical and problem resolution skills.
- Ability to document and explain technical concepts and details clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences (e.g. technical business auditors etc.).
- Self-motivated and willing to accept additional responsibilities as position expands.
- Possess or actively working to obtain a professional cybersecurity certification (CISM CISSP or equivalent)
- Technical certifications in cybersecurity defense or forensics: GIAC etc. is considered an asset.
- Project management knowledge and experience considered an asset.
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Wawanesa is proud to be one of Manitobas Top Employers a Kincentric Best Employer in Canada and a Forbes Best Employer in Canada recognizing an exceptional place to work!
Diversity Equity Inclusion& Belonging
At Wawanesa we are committed to Diversity Equity Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) and believe that our strength lies in the diversity of our people this is supported by having a representative workforce.
We welcome applications from all qualified candidates including racialized persons women Indigenous Peoples persons with disabilities members of the 2SLGBTQIA community gender-diverse and neurodiverse individuals and anyone who can contribute to the further diversification of thought and ideas.
We aim to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all candidates. If you require accommodations during any stage of the recruitment process please reach out in confidence to .
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Senior IC
Employment Type
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