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Base pay rangeCA$60.00/hr - CA$65.00/hr
Ascend Learning, LLC () is a global leader providing online education, assessment, remediation, certification, and e-learning solutions for the post-secondary academic market specifically serving the nursing, allied health, sports medicine, public safety, and the financial services industries. Ascend employs more than 900 employees in 35 states. Ascend's portfolio companies consist of Jones and Bartlett Learning, ATI Nursing Education, the National Healthcare Association, Exam FX, the National Academy of Sports Medicine, Boston Reed, Advanced Informatics, and Click Safety.
Required skills:
Mimecast tool expert, 3 years+ experience administering Mimecast environment with 100s of policies, in-depth understanding of Mimecast Targeted Threat Protection (TTP) policy configurations, and email analysis.
Cofense Triage & Vision, 3 years+ experience building automated playbooks and workflows, in-depth understanding of threat analysis and investigation, including forensic analysis, root cause identification, and response recommendations.
Proficient in email header analysis for enhancing email security, with expertise in identifying and mitigating threats through detailed examination of header information. Skilled in detecting anomalies, tracing email origins, and understanding routing paths to prevent phishing and spoofing attacks.
Strong experience & skills performing incident triage and investigating attacks, malware, and suspicious activity at a process, command, and code-level.
Strong Windows OS server infrastructure knowledge
Technology experience 10+ years, 6+ years of information security
Excellent English communication skills (written, verbal, and comprehension)
Confident, energetic, driver, leader mentality




Extremely detail-oriented
Passionate about information security
Good Judgement
Proactivity
Advanced problem solver
Experience
Working in a SOC or providing incident support for a security team
Leading multi-team incident investigations
Experience identifying and mitigating web application attacks, C2 beaconing, and/or DPL/Data Exfil.
Log/protocol analysis, writing Reg Ex, and experience efficiently analyzing and sifting through thousands of logs to quickly pinpoint/identify suspicious activity.
Experience with searches in a SIEM (like QRadar or Splunk) and/or an EDR (like Carbon Black, Crowd Strike Falcon).
Threat hunting in core security tools
Tool Experience
Mimecast experience and expert skills are mandatory.
Cofense Triage & Vision are strongly preferred.
Regex is required.
Experience administering other email security tools is a plus (O365, Proofpoint, Checkpoint Harmony).
Seniority levelSeniority level Associate
Employment typeEmployment type Contract
Job functionJob function Information Technology
Industries IT Services and IT Consulting
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📌 Information security specialist (Winnipeg)
🏢 SKaaS
📍 Winnipeg