At a Glance
- Tasks: Protect sensitive information and respond to security incidents in a dynamic environment.
- Company: Join a leading global education company focused on innovation and security.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Join a passionate team dedicated to enhancing cybersecurity in the education sector.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in safeguarding information while working with cutting-edge security tools.
- Qualifications: 3+ years of experience in information security and expertise in Mimecast and threat analysis.
The predicted salary is between 60 - 60 $ per hour.
Join to apply for the Information Security Specialist role at SKaaS. This range is provided by SKaaS. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range CA$60.00/hr - CA$65.00/hr.
Ascend Learning, LLC (www.ascendlearning.com) is a global leader providing online education, assessment, remediation, certification, and e-learning solutions for the post-secondary academic market specifically serving the nursing, allied health, sports medicine, public safety, and the financial services industries. Ascend employs more than 900 employees in 35 states.
Required skills:
- Mimecast tool expert, 3 years+ experience administering Mimecast environment with 100s of policies, in-depth understanding of Mimecast Targeted Threat Protection (TTP) policy configurations, and email analysis.
- Cofense Triage & Vision, 3 years+ experience building automated playbooks and workflows, in-depth understanding of threat analysis and investigation, including forensic analysis, root cause identification, and response recommendations.
- Proficient in email header analysis for enhancing email security, with expertise in identifying and mitigating threats through detailed examination of header information.
- Skilled in detecting anomalies, tracing email origins, and understanding routing paths to prevent phishing and spoofing attacks.
- Strong experience & skills performing incident triage and investigating attacks, malware, and suspicious activity at a process, command, and code-level.
- Strong Windows OS server infrastructure knowledge.
- Technology experience 10+ years, 6+ years of information security.
- Excellent English communication skills (written, verbal, and comprehension).
- Confident, energetic, driver, leader mentality.
- Extremely detail-oriented.
- Passionate about information security.
- Good Judgement.
- Proactivity.
- Advanced problem solver.
- Experience working in a SOC or providing incident support for a security team.
- Leading multi-team incident investigations.
- Experience identifying and mitigating web application attacks, C2 beaconing, and/or DPL/Data Exfil.
- Log/protocol analysis, writing RegEx, and experience efficiently analyzing and sifting through thousands of logs to quickly pinpoint/identify suspicious activity.
- Experience with searches in a SIEM (like QRadar or Splunk) and/or an EDR (like Carbon Black, CrowdStrike Falcon).
- Threat hunting in core security tools.
- Tool Experience: Mimecast experience and expert skills are mandatory. Cofense Triage & Vision are strongly preferred. Regex is required. Experience administering other email security tools is a plus (O365, Proofpoint, Checkpoint Harmony).
Seniority level: Associate
Employment type: Contract
Job function: Information Technology
Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting
Information Security Specialist in Winnipeg employer: SKaaS
At Ascend Learning, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration. Our Information Security Specialists benefit from competitive pay, comprehensive training, and ample opportunities for professional growth within a supportive environment. Located in Canada, our team enjoys the unique advantage of working with cutting-edge technology while contributing to meaningful educational solutions that impact lives across various industries.
