Date Posted: 05/27/2025 Req ID: 41177 Faculty/Division: Ofc of the Chief Information Officer Department: Information Security Campus:St. George (Downtown Toronto) Position Number: Description: About us: The Information Security group, part of the Information Technology Services (ITS), provides expertise and services to protect the University of Toronto's data and digital infrastructure assets. Protection is achieved by identifying and reducing risk. Information Security staff engage with academic, research and administrative groups in a number of areas, including assessing the security of new and existing services, working with architects todesign and maintain security in online resources and offering detection and response capabilities to address cyber attacks. The Information Security group offers a challenging and exciting environment to develop your skills and contribute to increasing the safety and reliability of our digital world. Your opportunity: Information Technology Services (ITS) at the University of Toronto is seeking a skilled Network Firewall Analyst to join our team. As a key member of our ITS team, you will play a critical role in protecting the Universitys digital assets and infrastructure from cyber threats. With over 200 IT professionals working together to provide University:wide IT services and systems, were committed to maintaining the Universitys status as Canadas leading institution of learning, discovery, and knowledge creation. As a Network Firewall Analyst you will monitor and analyze network traffic to identify potential security threats, configure and manage firewalls prevent attacks, and develop and implement automated solutions to streamline security processes. You will also collaborate with cross:functional teams to ensure seamless integration of security measures and stay up:to:date on emerging threats and technologies, providing expert guidance to the team. Your responsibilities will include: :Developing, maintaining, and ensuring the security of University networks :Analyzing, troubleshooting and testing highly complex systems :Deploy and operate network isolation/firewall services at network perimeters and devices: configure services, develop/install/test/review firewall rules using manual and automated methods :Integrate firewall instance operations and reporting using firewall automation tools and scripting :Using security threat detection tools, develop, install and test rules for detecting malware, phishing and other malicious network traffic :Integrate external security detection and response tools with firewall services, eg. input and act on threat intelligence from MISP sources, output response information to reporting tools using API tools :Collaborate with information security and IT staff to advise on rule deployment/tuning and metrics reporting Essential Qualifications: :Bachelors Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience. :Minimum five years experience with complex, heterogenous, campus and data centre networks :Thorough understanding of IP networks including protocols, routing, NAT and other networking technologies :Demonstrated understanding of critical network support applications like DNS and reverse proxies :Experience with configuring and troubleshooting network security controls such as network and application firewalls and how to use them to protect against common threats such as SQL injections :Excellent knowledge of packetcaptures, taking, decoding, and analyzing them with tools like wireshark or tcpdump :Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible :Proficiency with Git for source code and configuration change tracking :Understanding of continuous integration and deployment principles :Strong analytical ability, attention to detail and problem solving skills :Must communicate well both verbally and in writing and be able to explai