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Introduction

IBM Consulting is seeking highly talented candidates to fill a client-focused, entry level security consultant role in our Cybersecurity Services team. We are in an era of advanced cybersecurity threats because Information and Data are some of the most important organizational assets in today’s businesses. These threats are persistent and continuously evolving, and the impact of security breaches on an organization can be devastating.

As a Security Consultant, you will be a key advisor for IBM’s clients, analyzing business requirements to design and implement the best security solutions for their needs. You will apply your technical skills to find the balance between enabling and securing the client's organization with the cognitive solutions that are making IBM the fastest growing enterprise security business in the world.

Your role and responsibilities

Put your technical skills in the spotlight securing our clients’ most important assets. As an Entry Level Security Consultant, you will:

· Be part of the world’s largest consulting practice with industry-leading security research capabilities.

· Get exposure to multiple security competencies, job functions and work alongside more senior level security consultants, to collect and analyze existing business and technical requirements following the initial 2 to 3 months of onboarding and education.

· Participate in client engagements, assist with client deliverables, work on Requests for Proposals (RFP) and participate in client meetings.

· Work as a team member with client personnel and other IBM teams to identify functional requirements and subsequently work with or in some instances lead others in the identification, justification, and design of the client’s solution.

· Solve complex client challenges and provide holistic solutions that incorporate people, processes, and technologies to improve our clients’ security posture.

· Team on all phases of engagement to monitor, detect, plan, build, implement, and support advanced security solutions.

· Be an integral part in providing our clients with an integrated approach to business design and execution, turning strategies into actions.

· Establish new, flexible and iterative approaches that only IBM can offer through our unique combination of skills, experiences, and capabilities.

IBM Cybersecurity practices include Cyber Security & Risk, Cyber Threat & Cyber Defend. Throughout the program you will receive exceptional technical, consulting, and industry solution training, hands-on experience, project participation, and structured mentorship that will equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to make an immediate impact and achieve growth as a leader.


Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

· Knowledge of IT Security concepts and fundamentals.

· Eligibility to obtain Canadian L2 Secret Clearance

· Outcome focused, possessing a high level of resilience, you demonstrate the flexibility and resolve needed to achieve success across a broad range of consultative contexts.

· Excellent written and oral communication skills

· Familiarity with concepts of network design, network security, authentication, authorization techniques, and encryption protocols and standards.

· Knowledge of one or more of the following security practices: Threat Management including Security Intelligence & Operations Consulting, Data and Application Security, Identity & Access Management, Cloud and Infrastructure Security, and/or Strategy and Risk.

· Exposure to one or more software tools such as Java, Python, C/C++, Java, Ruby, GO, Golang or bash, C#; SharePoint; Software code Testing and Test Automation is helpful.

· Familiarity with network security tools for vulnerability scanning, network monitoring, network sniffing, routers, firewalls, Intrusion detection and protection, anomaly detection and encryption standards.

Preferred technical and professional experience

· Knowledge and or experience in IT system or network administration; Network Troubleshooting and Cyber intelligence analysis, including open-source research and analytical tradecraft, identifying cyber threat actors, including advanced persistent threats and associated Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs)

· Trending/Threat Analysis Report Writing and Performing cyber system security assessments - Cyber Threat Analysis and IDS/IPS/SIEM systems - Firewall administration and management.

· Experience performing security assessments, risk management or compliance activities.

· Experience with Operating Systems - Linux (preferred) / Unix / Windows

· Experience with Palo Alto XSIAM and SIEM technologies such as Q Radar and/or Sentinel and/or Splunk 

· Knowledge and understanding of TCP/IP Network Fundamentals

· Understanding of TCP/IP Network Fundamentals, basic routing protocol fundamentals

· Must be able to draw upon professional concepts to collaborate with others to carry out assigned duties.

· Challenge the validity of given procedures and processes with the intent to enhance and improve.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.


Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.


Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.


Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 


At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.


This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.