# Senior IT Security Specialist

About the role We are hiring a Senior IT Security Specialist to protect our networks, endpoints, applications and cloud environments, and to keep us compliant with the frameworks our business and clients depend on. You will own day-to-day security operations across firewalls, intrusion prevention, wireless, email and endpoint protection, while leading our vulnerability testing and compliance programs. This is a hands-on senior role. You will configure and tune security controls yourself, guide junior staff, and advise leadership on risk. What You'll Do Network and perimeter security Deploy, manage and tune next-generation firewalls, including rule reviews, segmentation and change control. Operate and tune intrusion prevention systems (IPS), investigate alerts and reduce false positives. Secure enterprise WiFi, including WPA3/802.1X authentication, rogue access point detection and guest network isolation. Endpoint, email and data protection Administer antivirus and endpoint protection (EPP/EDR) across servers and workstations, and respond to detections. Manage anti-spam and email security controls, including phishing filtering, SPF, DKIM and DMARC. Own data loss prevention (DLP) pol

- **Id**: 3880082
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/electric-mind-senior-it-security-specialist>
- **Role**: Support
- **Role family**: Support
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Toronto, Canada, New York, United States
- **Countries**: CA, US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T14:57:40Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T09:34:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4046
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Custom Software Development

## Company

- **Id**: 58136
- **Name**: Electric Mind
- **Domain**: electricmind.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/electric-mind>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.25
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 38
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **Active Directory** — Optional: no
- **DLP** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **NIST CSF** — Optional: no
- **PCI DSS** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Wi-Fi** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **ITIL** — Optional: yes
- **SIEM** — Optional: yes
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T17:46:50Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 38
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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