Security Analyst

IBM
IBM

IT

Ottawa, ON, Canada

Posted on Sep 17, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Infrastructure Specialist: System Administration, you will provide 24/7 technical support for cloud-based solutions, ensuring seamless operations across various applications, DevOps, middleware, security, and infrastructure components. You will play a critical role in building, setting up, and maintaining cloud applications, infrastructure, and networking.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Ensure Seamless Operations: Provide 24/7 technical support for cloud-based solutions, identifying and resolving technical problems, and installing software updates and fixes to ensure systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.

• Develop and Configure Infrastructure: Build, set up, and maintain cloud applications, infrastructure, and networking, including developing and configuring infrastructure and configuration as code using Ansible and Terraform.

• Manage Cloud Applications: Administer Dev, Test, and Production environments hosted on Windows, Linux, and Unix servers, and ensure cloud elasticity by auto-scaling resources based on business requirements.

• Identify and Resolve Issues: Identify and resolve issues involving APIs, application services, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, microservices, containers, Kubernetes nodes, ICP management, middleware components, network, security, and infrastructure problems.

• Provide Service Management Reports: Provide regular service management reports to keep clients informed, and manage Application ID, ensuring DR and manual redundancy failover capabilities.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

The position is for a Senior Security Analyst or Architect with over 10 years of relevant security architecture experience and expertise in implementation and or in service support to join an exciting opportunity. A current and valid Government of Canada Secret clearance is required. Requires a minimum 18 months of project duration in the last 60 months, supporting a solution which is comprised of two (2) or more integrated software applications in a virtual 3 tier (UI, Logical and Data layers) or greater environment/platform, and leverages a) Citrix Thin-Client architecture, b) Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), and c) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Requires demonstrated experience configuring and managing Security areas, for a minimum of 3 years.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience working in Canadian Federal Government or with an eco-system partner on a previous contract/project. • A valid/current VCR. • Ability to facilitate security workshops. • An ITIL Certification.

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 500 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.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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.

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