Senior Technical Analyst with UNIX experience to review and challenge dependencies on ROOT Access-39507

Senior Technical Analyst with UNIX experience to review and challenge dependencies on ROOT Access-39507

Location Address: Toronto (Hybrid, 2 days/week in office)

Contract Duration: 5-6 months with w/extension, with business case approval (pending)

Schedule Hours: 8:30 am-5pm Monday-Friday (37.5 hrs/week)

Business group: GIAM - IAM Governance

Identity and Access Management Governance (GIAM) ensures that the right individuals have appropriate access to systems and data. GIAM provides centralized oversight for access certifications, privileged account management, and secure integration across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

Project: Root access to Unix servers: entitlements review and challenge.

Typical day in role:

• Meetings with stakeholders (business, IT security, compliance teams) to discuss access needs, risks, and exceptions.
• Review requests for privileged access across UNIX, Active Directory (AD), and Windows environments.
• Prioritize tasks for the day: remediation efforts, guideline drafting, or urgent escalations.
• Assess the current UNIX landscape from a privilege perspective, identifying misaligned sudo rules, excessive access, or outdated configurations.
• Set up or refine UNIX sudo council configurations, ensuring proper delegation of administrative rights.
• Analyze privilege access models across UNIX, AD, and Windows to ensure consistency and compliance with governance standards.
• Document findings from assessments, highlighting risks, exceptions, and remediation paths.

Must-Have Skills:

• 5-8 years of hands-on UNIX, AD, and Windows privilege models.
• 5 years of hands-on experience identity domain (user access, cybersecurity domain, and risk management).
• Must be able to communicate effectively and present information to different stakeholders in a way that is clear, accessible, and tailored to their needs.
• 3 years of auditing experience within cybersecurity.

Nice to have:

• Scripting skills (PowerShell, Shell, Java, Python)
• Spanish

Bets vs average:

• The best candidate will have hands-on experience with Active Directory, Windows, and UNIX within the identity access management domain.
• The best candidate is someone who can communicate very well. Some with the ability to distill complex.

Education & Certificates:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Information Sciences, or equivalent field

2 rounds of interviews

1 - Senior managers and/or Director; could be in person or online- 45min - 1 hour for behavioral, technical, critical thinking, logical questions etc.

2 - Director; 30 - 40 minutes for cultural fit and some technical questions etc.