Cyber Security Analyst - Temporary (December 2026 - September 2027)Status:
Temporary (December 2026 – September 2027)
Hours:
Monday – Friday, 35 hours/week
Home Campus:
Fennell (hybrid work arrangements available)
Rate of Pay:
Payband 10 ($88,983 - $111,230 per year)
Vacancy Status:
1 vacancy available
Posting Date:
November 10th, 2026
Closing Date:
November 19th, 2026 at 7:00 pm EST
We believe the rich diversity among our students and the communities we serve should be reflected within our workforce. As educators, we believe it is significant to act and show leadership in advancing the principles of reconciliation, equity, diversity, and inclusion in our community.
Job SummaryThe Cyber Security Analyst supports Mohawk College’s Cyber Security Framework and will collaborate with technical professionals and business leaders across the college as well as the broader Mohawk College community to ensure that technology is procured, designed, built, operated, maintained and monitored with consistent practices that respect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our systems and data.
This individual will facilitate and continuously improve technology risk assessment methodologies including Threat and Risk Assessments which help express the likelihood and impact of Cyber Security incidents. These assessments will feed into Mohawk College’s Enterprise Risk Management Framework and clearly articulate the urgency of deeply technical mitigations to non-technical senior leaders. These mitigations will also require the analyst to update College policies, standards, guidelines and procedures.




The incumbent will work to constantly review the current threat landscape by receiving news feeds including the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security’s distributions and monitor other Cyber Security channels as applicable. The incumbent will understand these threats and their relationship to College infrastructure by building and maintaining a vulnerability management program which will strategically feed the College’s remediation efforts and operations teams with actionable and prioritized intelligence with instruction on remediating exposure. Where attacks against infrastructure and endpoints are successful, the Cyber Security Analyst will support incident response activities and critically identify root cause and provide remediation steps and countermeasures to further harden our technology configuration and recommend use cases for visibility and advanced notification. They will also continuously test the security posture of systems and networks including the review of port maps and scans and ensuring configurations meet the concept of least privilege. Where teams feel systems are optimally configured or present potential unknown vulnerabilities, the individual may perform penetration testing or work collaboratively with penetration testers to validate the security posture of the system and recommend any further mitigations learned in the activity.
This individual will also be responsible for maintaining and monitoring infrastructure related to prevention, detection, and response technologies which includes antimalware, intrusion prevention and detection,



and the collection of system event logs from data centre, network, endpoints, security, IoT, and cloud systems. Further, these event logs must be reviewed and tuned and have the appropriate content included for analysis and correlation by our security operations centre. Mohawk College leverages a managed service for our Security Information and Event Management solution in which the incumbent will be the primary integration and communication point with. The incumbent will be responsible for receiving, triaging, investigating, and remediating incidents and problems with Mohawk College’s infrastructure working collaboratively across infrastructure, endpoint, database, and application development teams for resolution to incidents and closure with the security operations centre. Further, the incumbent is responsible for building out event log use cases leveraging correlation across a complex and diverse technology environment which is critical to the early detection of an incident and plays a critical role in eradicating a cyber attack. This individual will also ensure that newly built systems and networks through formal change management are outputting the appropriate security telemetry and that they are effectively protected, monitored and tuned. They will also actively develop threat-hunting hypotheses and test for the presence of adversaries actively embedded in systems and networks using innovative approaches and deception technologies.
The Cyber Security Analyst will also work to address compliance with College policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines including but not limited to PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) and Mohawk College’s Information Security

📌 Cyber Security Analyst (Canada)
🏢 MOHAWK COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS & TECHNOLOGY
📍 Canada