Terms: Permanent Full-time
Global Relay, an international world-class technology services company, is looking for an exceptional candidate to join our Operations team. One who is able to use security experience and judgment to deal with a variety of challenging technical and security projects. Candidate will be able to work with a diverse global base of sophisticated customers and partners and a driven management team, in a very fast-paced environment. This is a unique opportunity to enjoy challenging work in Vancouver with a great group of passionate professionals in a booming industry with leading edge technology and systems.
The Position:
The Senior Information Security Analyst and System Administrator position involves working directly with business and IT on all security-related matters. A large portion of this position will require the ability to determine compliance to security standards and best practices for new applications and infrastructures.
A Successful Candidate will:
• Provide security-related advice, assistance and approval to IT project teams in order to establish security compliant designs for applications and acquired security components.
• Act as a liaison between security, business owners, clients and system managers.
• Perform in-depth security reviews for all projects/applications that are deployed in our environment.
• Ensure all Internet-facing applications do not cause any undue risk to our business.
• Perform regular vulnerability scans and provide reports on all our system to ensure our systems are secure.
• Advocate corporate information and enforce security policy and procedure to internal and external clients, customers, users and staff.
• Monitor for the occurrence of security incidents using available software tools, logs and other sources.
• Provide documentation related to investigations, including steps taken and conclusions reached.
• Develop, document and implement data security procedures that enforce information security standards.
• Investigate security incidents utilizing forensically sound methods.
• Develops security project schedules and documentation as needed.
• Develops security recommendations and plans for implementation.
• Maintain security standards guidelines and procedures that are appropriate and consistent across the company.
• Monitor and ensure compliance and protection of business critical information and intellectual property.
System Administration related role:
• Maintain, troubleshoot and administer servers in test and production environments.
• Evaluate and install computer hardware, operating systems and other software.
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis.
• Harden servers based on established security standards.
• Research and recommend solutions to the overall efficiency and performance of our systems and applications.
• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Administer AD user accounts, rights, security and distribution groups, securing resources with NTFS and file permissions.
• Perform work at the datacenter as needed.
• Meticulously document procedures and solutions.
• Provide solutions to complex problems raised by clients and staff.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree, with minimum of three years experience in a security analyst capacity for medium to large companies with a complex network environment.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Strong understanding of system and network security weaknesses, vulnerabilities and remediation.
• Strong understanding of Unix and Windows security and administration issues and concerns.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Operating Systems and technologies including Active Directory, Domain Controllers, Group Policies, Exchange and MSSQL.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking and firewalls.
• Strong familiarity with security issues surrounding network computing and experience in implementation of security systems and controls.
• Ability to deal diplomatically and effectively at all levels of the organization with all classifications, including the very technical.
• Knowledge of security auditing processes.
• Knowledge of network and host security assessment tools.
• Formal training or commensurate work experience in security tools (scanners, Intrusion Detection Systems, and security analysis tools).
• Expert knowledge of information security issues, trends and leading practices.
• Solid understanding of information security projects and implementation.
• Strong understanding of email routing protocols including SMTP and IMAP.
• Interpersonal and relationship management skills - how to interface to technical administrators, senior IT and Business Management.
About Global Relay:
Global Relay is the leading global provider of hosted Email and Instant Message Archiving services. Our email and IM archiving and perimeter security technology provides businesses with highly secure offsite storage and backup while satisfying all compliance, privacy, security, business continuity, corporate governance, audit and litigation requirements for Compliance and eDiscovery. From its headquarters in downtown Vancouver’s Gastown, Global Relay provides Message Archiving and Compliance services to a prestigious international blue chip clientele world-wide. 22 of the world’s 25 largest banks use Global Relay’s services, together with over 6,000 other regulated financial firms. Global Relay is private, profitable and has strong financials, with offices in New York, London, Vancouver and Singapore.
What we offer:
Global Relay provides a competitive compensation, and strong benefits program with opportunities for bonus compensation, stock options. Global Relay recognizes excellence and provides its team members with rewarding opportunities for professional and personal growth and development.
If you are interested in this unique position, please send your cover letter and resume to: hr@globalrelay.net . Please reference “Senior Information Security Analyst / System Administrator†in the email subject.
Please no phone calls. Must be eligible to work in Canada.
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