Job Opportunities Senior Cyber Security Systems Administrator
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Job Description
Job ID:9464
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
The Senior Systems Administrator is responsible for deploying monitoring and maintaining our security platforms. This role involves close collaboration with other members of the cybersecurity and technology services teams located across Canada.
We continue to initiate strategic projects that will enable our business community to achieve their goals. As a result of these initiatives we are growing our team!
This job contributes to Wawanesas success by ensuring security systems are performing optimally and in accordance with corporate policies security standards and recognized industry best practices.
Job Responsibilities
- Works with an enterprise information security team to solution architect test deploy and maintain cyber security systems.
- Develops security orchestration and automation capabilities.
- Leads and resolves complex and high severity technical problems issues and outages.
- Defining and driving operational and tactical initiatives.
- Proactively identify and lead implementation of products and tools to ensure security of our infrastructure and applications collaborating with all areas of technology to harden our environment.
- Contributes to the planning of application and infrastructure vitality.
- Conducts technical health assessments of security technologies.
- Performs system maintenance activities across multiple environments/technologies.
- Creates and maintains documentation to support systems within area of responsibility.
- Participate in researching and evaluating information-security-related hardware and software.
- Contributes to solution design using the existing technology portfolio.
- Configuring security systems analyzing security requirements and recommending improvements.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Minimum 7 years related IT experience within an enterprise environment; previous Information Security experience is an asset.
- Hands on experience supporting maintaining and deploying cyber security technology such as CrowdStrike CTI Platforms Tenable Digital Guardian and automation/orchestration platforms.
- Experience with creating dashboards and reporting using technology such as Grafana PowerBi Python PowerShell Scripting.
- Hands on experience with security orchestration and automation technologies.
- A track record of supporting AWS and Azure cloud environments.
- Proven skills in architecting and deploying multi-platform and multi-cloud solutions.
- Strong working knowledge of mainstream operating systems including Windows and Linux.
- Strong working knowledge of network protocols including: IPv4 IPv6 TCP UDP DNS HTTP IPSEC and SSL.
- Broad knowledge of technologies such as: Web Servers Application Servers Virtualization Infrastructure Cloud Infrastructure Automation/Integration technologies.
- Ability to participate on call rotation.
- Ability to coach members on the team.
- Ability to communicate in a clear concise and persuasive manner.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to analyze system requirements and apply structured troubleshooting techniques.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to perform comprehensive reviews.
- Experience with the following would be considered an asset: Identity & Access Management technologies Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems Firewalls Cryptography Endpoint Security solutions Multi-Factor Authentication technologies Security Information & Event Management platforms Vulnerability Management Platforms and Data Loss Prevention technologies.
- Cyber security certifications such as ISC² (CISSP) SANS GIAC or ISACA (CISA CISM CRISC) is 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 .
All Wawanesa job applicants are subject to Wawanesas .
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
