Technician, Cybersecurity Research Lab

Job title: Technician, Cybersecurity Research Lab

Job description: About Durham College:

Durham College (DC) is leading the way as a post-secondary institution, offering an innovative and transformative student experience and hands-on learning opportunities. With this focus top of mind for our students and our employees, DC is proud to be one of the fastest-growing colleges in the province and annually ranked as one of the GTA’s Top 100 employers.

The college offers a wide range of market-driven programs across multiple disciplines, including culinary management, farming and horticulture, business, IT, construction and trades, science and technology, health care, engineering, social and community services, justice, media, art and design.

With a focus on experiential learning, DC graduates are known for having the skills and knowledge employers need. More than 104,000 alumni represent the college, both locally and around the world.

Serving the Durham Region and Northumberland County communities for over 50 years, with campuses in Oshawa and Whitby, the college offers over 12,500 full-time post-secondary and apprenticeship students access to more than 145 full-time post-secondary programs – including four honours bachelor degrees and nine apprenticeship programs. Led by over 1,860 full- and part-time staff, DC has an estimated annual economic impact of more than $913 million on Durham Region.

DUTIES:

The Technician, Cybersecurity Research Lab is responsible for supporting the technology located within the Centre for Cybersecurity Innovation, including the new cyber range, intelligence feeds, and log management systems. The incumbent will be responsible for setting up the high-scale infrastructure and maintaining system uptime. Responsibilities include tracking equipment maintenance requirements, conducting routine scheduled maintenance, troubleshooting, optimizing services, allocating resources, asset management, log maintenance, audit measures, system allocation and general maintenance.

LAB COMMISSIONING AND CONTROLS

• Setting up and providing technical support for the complete cyber range and its associated modules.
• Maintaining the set-up of the Identity and Access Management (IAM) protocols, planning, executing and testing while generating necessary reports.
• Setting up the internal computing environment and establishing the required local area network (LAN).
• Architecting the infrastructure required for enabling threat intelligence feeds on Elastic for analytical purposes.

LAB OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

• Identifying maintenance requirements, conducting routine maintenance, troubleshooting when problems present, and optimizing performance.
• Working collaboratively with a team of cybersecurity researchers, partners and students to support industry-led applied research, allocating resources as necessary.
• Drafting and managing necessary operational and access control protocols and log maintenance. Conduct periodic audits.
• Organizing and maintaining regular reports of the operational analytical feed engine.

QUALIFICATIONS: * A minimum of a three-year advanced diploma or degree in computer science or engineering

• A minimum of one-year of relevant work experience is required.
• Experience or training in cybersecurity is an asset.
• Strong communication skills required for collaboration in lab environment.

Please apply below by submitting your cover letter and resume to the online portal. Applications will be accepted until October 18, 2023. Competition number SP23-07R.

Required Skills

Hourly rate: $25.00

Required Experience

Hours: 24 hours per week, weekly shifts will be communicated

Department: Office of Research Services, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Part-time support opportunity (regular part-time)

This position is located at 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa. .

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