Senior Analyst, IT Security

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Posting Reason:
Replacement of a regular position

Job Type:
Employee

Anticipated Duration in Months (for contracts and temporary assignments):
N/A

Job Family:
IT Security

# of Open Positions:
1

Faculty/Service - Department:
IT Services and Infrastructure

Campus:
Main Campus

Union Affiliation:
N/A

Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):
2026/10/22

Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):
2026/11/02

Hours per week:
35

Salary Grade:
Non-Union Grade NC8 - 35 hrs

Salary Range:
$96,570.00 - $120,712.00

Position Purpose

Reporting to the Senior Manager, IT Security, the incumbent develops, implements, upgrades, integrates, tests, manages, and supports information security systems and applications. Performs real-time analysis and correlation of logs/alerts from a multitude of infrastructure, network, and security devices with a focus on the determination of whether said events constitute infrastructure, network, or security incidents. Responsible for researching and documenting various mitigation strategies. Provides information security education to the University community and prioritizes remediation of issues in a highly complex environment with critical uptime requirements.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Security Administration and Platforms: Implement, operationalize, customize, configure, program, test, and maintain complex security systems, platforms, and solutions using multiple technologies. Provide technical recommendations for improving IT security infrastructure and assists in the coordination of audit and compliance requirements
• Analytics and Monitoring: Monitor a wide variety of IT assets, network, and data to ensure the prevention of events that negatively impact confidentiality, availability, and integrity. Build/manage reports and analyze logs and messages to identify and report possible security violations. Collect and analyse performance reports for various systems, and report trends in hardware and application performance to assist senior technical personnel to predict future issues or outages.
• Development: Develop program code/scripts according to technical standards and security policies. Build/develop use cases for Security and/or Network Operations Centre.
• Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Testing: Perform ongoing vulnerability assessments and penetration testing of systems and networks to ensure compliance with security policies, standards, and procedures. Interface with IT teams on implementing controls.

What you will bring:

• University degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems (MIS) or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a complex and diverse IT environment demonstrating experience in IT security.
• Experience with PeopleSoft security would be considered an asset.
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID or comparable identity platforms would be considered an asset.
• Hands-on experience in application security and DevSecOps, including security assessments of web applications, APIs, and enterprise applications.
• Experience integrating applications with Single Sign-On (SSO) using SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect, and knowledge of OAuth 2.0 authorization flows.
• Ability to configure and troubleshoot federation metadata, certificates, claims, tokens, and application access controls.
• Knowledge of secure coding, threat modelling, security design reviews, OWASP Top 10, API security risks, and secure software development life cycle (SSDLC) practices.
• Experience configuring and tuning Web Application Firewalls (WAF), onboarding applications, analyzing security events, managing exceptions, and troubleshooting false positives.
• Experience integrating SAST, DAST, SCA, and secrets scanning into CI/CD pipelines; interpreting findings; and implementing security checks and remediation workflows.
• Knowledge of container and infrastructure as code security.
• Experience with programming and scripting languages used for application security reviews and automation, source control, and software development methodologies.
• Experience configuring, testing, and troubleshooting Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and application access policies in collaboration with Identity and Access Management teams.
• Bilingual: French and English, spoken and written.

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Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:

Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.