IT Security Analyst

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Work environment

The Courts Administration Service (CAS) is one of Canada’s Top Employers. We invite you to join an organization that is committed to ensuring an inclusive workplace and respect for all!

The IT Services Branch is growing its team of results driven people passionate about making a meaningful contribution to Courts Administration Service (CAS). Candidates will have a talent for service delivery, teamwork, business solutions, and relationship management.

This opportunity will provide many benefits to you, such as:

• Career development and learning opportunity;
• Chance to develop new skills and competencies;
• Gain valuable experience in building relationships across government;
• Work in an engaging, empowering role.

We are looking at hiring qualified employees! If you’re innovative, action-oriented, adaptable, and love to collaborate, we want to hear from you!

Intent of the process

A pool of pre-qualified or fully qualified candidates may be created to staff similar or identical positions with various tenure, various linguistic profiles and security requirements within the Courts Administration Service.

Candidates may be evaluated further, for specific opportunities, on qualifications that are deemed necessary, whether or not these qualifications have been listed on the job advertisement.

Positions to be filled: Number to be determined

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

At minimum, successful completion of two years of an acceptable post-secondary educational program in computer science, information technology, information management or another specialty relevant to the position to be staffed or an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.

Degree equivalency

Minimum of one year of recent* experience in at least 3 of the following areas:
• Experience working with Network Access Controls systems such as Forescout
• Experience analysing and reviewing logs for the detection, investigation or prevention of IT Security breaches, attacks, vulnerabilities and threats
• Experience working with an Enterprise Firewall and Content Filtering such as Check Point
• Experience working with Intrusion Detection Systems and/or Intrusion Prevention Systems
• Experience with Vulnerability Assessment Solutions such as Nessus
• Experience in providing advice, guidance and recommendation in securing IT systems

Definition:
*Recent is defined as an experience having been acquired within the last five (5) years.

If you possess any of the following, your application must also clearly explain how you meet it (other qualifications)

Graduation with diploma from a recognized college with specialization in computer science, information technology, information management or another specialty relevant to the position to be staffed.

Degree equivalency

• Any one of the following Certification:
Check Point Certified Security Administration (CCSA)
Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE)
Check Point Certified Security Master (CCSM)
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

Experience with securing cloud solutions such as; MS Azure, Office 365, SharePoint

Experience in securing wireless technologies

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

Bilingual - Imperative (BBB/BBB)

Information on language requirements

Second Language Writing Skills Self-Assessment
In order to help you decide if you should apply to a bilingual position, an optional self-assessment of your writing skills in your second official language is available for you to take before completing your application.

For more information, please consult:
Unsupervised Internet Test of Second Language Writing Skills

Abilities and Skills
Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
Ability to work with minimal supervision
Oral communication
Written communication
Analytical Thinking
Teamwork
Initiative
Results Oriented

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

Depending on the position, additional Conditions of Employment may apply, such as:
• Willing and able to work overtime, often on short notice

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance - Certains postes peuvent nécessiter une autorisation de sécurité de type secret

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

Applications submitted by email will not be accepted. You must apply on-line through www.jobs.gc.ca.

Persons with disabilities preventing them from applying on-line are asked to contact 1-800-645-5605.

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language(s) of their choice. Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred official language(s) in their application.

Candidates must clearly demonstrate in the screening questionnaire how they meet the education and experience factors listed as essential and asset qualifications on the statement of merit criteria. In order to do so, the candidate must provide the information as part of their answer to the pertinent screening question, using concrete examples, in the provided area and within the limited characters provided by the system. The assessment board cannot and will not make any assumptions about your experience. Note that it is not sufficient to only state that the qualifications are met or to provide a listing of current or past responsibilities. Resumes may be used as a secondary source to validate the experience described in the experience questionnaire. Failure to clearly demonstrate in the questionnaire how you meet the education and experience,essential, where applicable, may result in the rejection of your application. Candidates will not be solicited for incomplete or possible missing information.

Communication for this process will be sent via email. It is the responsibility of the candidate to ensure accurate contact information is provided and updated as required. Candidates who apply to this selection process should include an email address that accepts email from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email).

Recent and past performance agreements may be used as part of the assessment. Please be prepared to provide such documentation should it be requested.

An assignment/secondment appointment is a temporary resourcing option. The approval of your substantive supervisor may/will be required before an offer can be made.

The assessment board reserves the right to contact references other than the ones submitted by the candidates (only within the Public Service), if found necessary, in order to make a suitable assessment of the candidates.

All the information collected during the selection process, from the time of application until the end of the process, will be used to assess the candidates.

Asset qualification(s) may be applied in this selection process.

Written communication may be assessed via candidate's job application.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans and to Canadian citizens, in that order, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.