Cybersecurity Analyst
- Calgary, AB, Canada
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Job details
- Job type
- Contract
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Cyber Security Analyst – Threat Detection, Vulnerability Management & IAM
Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite Working Hours: 8:00 AM–5:00 PM MST
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Cyber Security Analyst with expertise in cybersecurity operations, threat detection, vulnerability management, identity and access management, and risk analysis. The ideal candidate will work closely with business, cybersecurity, operations, and technical teams to improve the organization's security posture and ensure the successful delivery of cybersecurity initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Business Engagement & Planning
Establish trusted relationships with business stakeholders.
Facilitate workshops to elicit business needs, objectives, and challenges.
Support strategic planning, demand intake, and initiative prioritization.
Develop business cases and value realization frameworks.
Business Analysis
Analyze current business processes and identify improvement opportunities.
Document current-state and future-state business processes.
Conduct gap analysis, risk assessments, and feasibility assessments.
Define business requirements, success criteria, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
Solution Development
Collaborate with technical teams to ensure business objectives are understood.
Translate business requirements into user stories and functional requirements.
Validate proposed solutions against business expectations.
Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Project Delivery
Track requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
Support change management, training, and business readiness activities.
Ensure delivered solutions align with business goals and expected outcomes.
Assist with post-implementation reviews and benefits realization.
Required Skills
Strong understanding of cybersecurity concepts, controls, frameworks, and operational practices.
Knowledge of incident management, threat hunting, malware analysis, forensic investigation, and containment procedures.
Experience conducting vulnerability assessments, risk analysis, remediation tracking, and reporting.
Understanding of authentication, authorization, MFA, SSO, PAM, and identity governance.
Ability to act as a liaison between business, cybersecurity, operations, and technical teams.
Experience analyzing business and technical requirements and translating them into actionable outcomes.
Expertise in developing and maintaining technical and operational documentation.
Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and facilitation skills.
Preferred Skills
Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Proxy, WAF, and Zero Trust concepts.
Ability to analyze security events, correlate logs, and identify threats.
Top 3 Must-Have Skills
Knowledge of incident management, threat hunting, malware analysis, forensic investigation, and containment procedures.
Experience conducting vulnerability assessments, risk analysis, remediation tracking, and reporting.
Understanding of authentication, authorization, MFA, SSO, PAM, and identity governance.
Top 3 Preferred Skills
Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Proxy, WAF, and Zero Trust concepts.
Ability to analyze security events, correlate logs, and identify threats.
Strong cybersecurity operations and risk management experience.
Additional Skills
Business Analysis
Cyber Security
Project Management
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Cyber Security Analyst at Astra North Infoteck will watch for security threats, assess system weaknesses, and track fixes. They will also work with business and technical teams to gather requirements, document processes, and make sure security projects meet business goals.
Requirements
Candidates need experience in cybersecurity operations, incident response, vulnerability assessment and risk analysis. They also need knowledge of identity and access management, plus strong communication and stakeholder skills for business analysis work.
Skills
- Cybersecurity operations
- Threat hunting
- Malware analysis
- Forensic investigation
- Incident containment
- Vulnerability assessment
- Risk analysis
- Remediation tracking
- Authentication and authorization
- Multi-factor authentication
- Single sign-on
- Privileged access management
- Identity governance
- TCP/IP
- DNS
- VPN
- Firewalls
- IDS/IPS
- Proxy
- WAF
- Zero Trust
- Security event analysis
- Log correlation
- Business analysis
- Requirements gathering
Categories
- Security & Safety
- Technology
- Consulting
- Software
Keywords
- Cyber Security Analyst
- threat detection
- threat hunting
- vulnerability management
- vulnerability assessment
- identity and access management
- IAM
- MFA
- SSO
- PAM
- identity governance
- incident management
- malware analysis
- forensic investigation
- risk analysis
- business analysis
- TCP/IP
- DNS
- VPN
- firewall
Seniority
Senior
Languages
- English