Security Analyst

Typical Day in Role:

• Manage and update proxy security policies across global environments.
• Review, analyze, and implement URL filtering rules and access controls.
• Troubleshoot user access issues, including scenario‑based investigations (e.g., website access failures).
• Work closely with business units across 35 countries to understand regional compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with a team of five proxy specialists to support daily operational needs.
• Participate in security reviews, incident investigations, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support onboarding, configuration, and optimization of Zscaler or equivalent proxy platforms.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• • 10+ years in IT, including 6+ years in security-focused roles supporting proxy technologies.
• • 3-5+ years of hands‑on experience managing enterprise proxy services (Zscaler preferred, Broadcom, Forcepoint, Netskope, etc.).
• • Proven experience writing and maintaining proxy security policies in large organizations. Strong foundational knowledge of:
• -Proxy architectures
• -URL filtering technologies
• -Web security controls
• • 1+ years’ experience to reflect strong knowledge of networking: being able to troubleshoot networks.
• • Strong understanding of web security attacks and secure proxy configurations.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• •Experience supporting Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) specifically.
• •Experience in financial institutions or other highly regulated industries.
• •Knowledge of regional compliance requirements across multiple geographies.
• •Experience with enterprise-scale change management processes.

Soft Skills Required:

• • Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills to be able to work well with technical peers and business stakeholders at different levels within the organization
• • Strong decision making, forward thinking and creative problem-solving skills to anticipate and respond quickly to technological/market influences
• • Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently or with minimal direction

Education:

• • Post-secondary degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related IT field preferred
• Public cloud provider certificates CISSP, CCSP an asset

• Candidate Review & Selection
• • One round video MS Teams interview – Panel (Hiring Manager + security specialty) - 1 hour
• -Foundational questions on proxy technologies.
• -Deep-dive questions on web security attacks and secure proxy practices.
• -Scenario-based troubleshooting questions.
• -Review of candidate’s direct experience managing proxy services.