Day: April 21, 2025

Company: Accenture

Location: Ottawa, ON

Expected salary:

Job date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 01:14:51 GMT

Job description: We Are
Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients’ needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.You Are
Passionate about security, love what you do and have a genuine desire to outsmart the bad guys. You have the experience to analyze a clients’ security posture, anticipate security requirements and help find right-sized solutions based on industry leading practices. You have a proven track record working successfully in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. You’re a creative, analytical problem solver with above average documentation skills who can speak to both technical and non-technical audiences. Can apply deep security skills to design, build and protect enterprise systems, applications, data, assets and people for Accenture and our clients. You are eager to put your skills to use by helping us help our clients inject security at every level of their organization.Job Description
Infrastructure Security strengthens clients’ ability to detect, prevent, and respond to infrastructure threats (networks, clouds, endpoints, mobile, and IoT). This includes cloud security, network architecture transformation, network security controls, modern secure remote access, endpoint detection & response.The candidate should have strong experience in security technologies including Firewalls, WAF, Web Proxy, IDS/IPS, Endpoint Security, and generate metrics related to Security, Network performance, capacity and availability.Key responsibilities for infrastructure security consulting practitioners include:This is an operations role responsible for managing and maintaining client’s network security operations. This includes supporting perimeter firewalls, web application firewalls, azure security, and endpoints.Run and Operate:

• Deep knowledge and understanding of Azure Cloud native security services with a good to have experience of another cloud service provide (AWS or GCP)
• Maintains policy, procedure documentations, including regular reviews and updates.
• Automate operational tasks to make processes simpler and more robust.
• Planning and implementing infrastructure security activities to enhance operations.
• Implementation of native infrastructure security hardware and software with a focus on network segmentation and inspection of traffic.
• Performing analysis of network security needs that contribute to the design, integration, and installation of hardware and software.
• Analysis, troubleshooting and development of solutions to network / security problems.
• Performing changes in the network following the change management process.
• Administering perimeter security systems such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, endpoints and web proxy.
• Providing consultation to infrastructure and application project teams on information security designs.
• Integration with corporate WAN, LAN and server architectures and other security programs;
• Travel as required

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in network security design and operations, and network administration.
• Minimum of 3 years hands on experience implementing firewall solutions (Cisco preferred, Palo Alto) for large Canadian or multi-national companies.
• Must have a strong technical knowledge of security operations, security monitoring, network segmentation, security controls relating to IPS/IDS systems, and firewall technologies (Cisco).
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with Platform Security (UNIX/Windows).
• Minimum 1 year of network packet capture and interpretation experience.
• In possession of, or able to qualify for, Canadian federal security clearance (reliability level).

Preferred Skills:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree.
• Vendor certifications (CCNP, CCIE, PCNSE, AZ-500).
• Industry recognized Professional Security certification (e.g. CISSP)
• Experience working for the Big 4 or Global SI is highly desired.
• Knowledge of cyber defense vendors and product capabilities is desirable.
• Willing to travel as required.
• Experience with deploying Microsoft Sentinel and Defender for Cloud in complex client environments.

Professional Skill Requirements

• Ability to lead and manage dynamic multi-region teams
• Eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment
• Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Good communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Good organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills
• Demonstrated leadership, teamwork and collaboration in professional setting; either military or civilian

About Accenture We work with one shared purpose: to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity. Every day, more than 775,000 of us help our stakeholders continuously reinvent. Together, we drive positive change and deliver value to our clients, partners, shareholders, communities, and each other.We believe that delivering value requires innovation, and innovation thrives in an inclusive and diverse environment. We actively foster a workplace free from bias, where everyone feels a sense of belonging and is respected and empowered to do their best work.At Accenture, we see well-being holistically, supporting our people’s physical, mental, and financial health. We also provide opportunities to keep skills relevant through certifications, learning, and diverse work experiences. We’re proud to be consistently recognized as one of the World’s Best Workplaces™.Join Accenture to work at the heart of change.Visit us atOur Commitment to Inclusion & DiversityAt Accenture, inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and embedded in our core values. We are committed to creating a workforce where our people can feel comfortable, be themselves and contribute. Like Canada itself, Accenture employees represent a tremendous variety of cultures, ethnicities, beliefs, backgrounds and languages. We offer an inclusive environment regardless of personal characteristics such as ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age or disability.Requesting an AccommodationAccenture is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. If you are hired by Accenture and require accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you will be asked to participate in our reasonable accommodation process. Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired.If you would like to be considered for employment opportunities with Accenture and have accommodation needs for a disability or religious observance, please call us toll free at 1 (877) 889-9009, send us an or speak with your recruiter.Other Employment StatementsIt is currently our objective to assign our people to work near where they live. However, given the nature of our business and our need to serve clients, our employees must be available to travel when needed.Job candidates are not required to disclose any offence for which a pardon has been granted.