About Trenchant:

Trenchant is an elite global team of engineers and security researchers charged with building world-class computer security products. Trenchant’s expertise is the by-product of the L3Harris acquisition of two highly-regarded information security businesses – Azimuth Security and Linchpin Labs. United under Trenchant, we are a key component of L3Harris’ Cyber Division. We are a trusted, discrete partner furnishing security products, consultancy, training and integration services to allied security, defence, and law enforcement agencies.

Job Description:

Working at Trenchant means working alongside the best security researchers and product engineers from across the security research and intelligence communities. You will be engaged on the most challenging problems in the toughest environments and delivering solutions supporting the cutting edge of cyber security research. The primary work location is downtown Ottawa. Infrequent travel to our Washington DC, London and Sydney offices in support of technical exchanges is highly encouraged.We require team members with an eye for security, to serve as key contributors on the Global Engineering Support team. The candidate must possess first-class System Engineering, Networking, and infosec skills and be capable of shifting into a senior role within the team.

Essential Functions: • Serve as a key element of the Global Engineering Support team, fusing priorities from research, engineering, operations and leadership to modernize network infrastructure

and realize efficiencies across the business unit. • Manage Trenchant’s global network, confidently editing, improving, and maintaining firewalls (Secuity Zones, Routing polices such as OSPF and BGP, VLANS, Switching, VPNs, etc) • Manage upgrading and tuning servers, VMs, routers, firewalls, load balancers, switches, and cloud infrastructure as needed. • Build new automations to manage applications, VMs, Network devices, and cloud infrastructure. • Coordinate and execute rollout of new services, products, and software development infrastructure. • Deploy, configure and manage existing, and new containerized applications. • Triage and diagnose network performance issues, ensuring stable infrastructure for security engineering and research teams. • Serve as a point of escalation for incident management and resolution. • Analyse network deployments, identify vulnerabilities, craft plans to improve security and orchestrate necessary interventions. • Provide infosec consultation and emergency response services to a global team of 150+ security engineers and researchers.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years relevant experience, or equivalent• Ability to obtain a Secret or higher security clearance• Experience reviewing workstation, server, network device, and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) logs using security information and event management (SIEM) tools• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • Verifiable network or system administrator operations experience • Ability to manage multiple competing priorities • Excellent written and verbal communications skills • Self-motivated, detail-oriented and highly organized

Preferred Additional Skills: • Broad experience administering and securing modern server, desktop and mobile operating systems • Experience securing networks and associated devices (firewalls, IDS/IPS, IPSec, VPNs) • Experience deploying and managing infrastructure including virtualization technology • Experience configuring, hardening and operating Linux and Window servers • Working knowledge of Juniper JunOS • Knowledge of public-key infrastructure • Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, etc. • Experience aggregating and analysing activity logs • Intuitive understanding of microservices paradigm and hands-on experience with container deployment and orchestration technologies • Previous experience supporting software development teams and an understanding of the basic software development lifecycle

Eligibility Criteria:

• Must be eligible for registration with the Controlled Goods Program;

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a government of Canada “Reliability” status and Level 2 (Secret) security clearance;

• Our culture:L3Harris MAS cultivates an inclusive and stimulating work environment that empowers employees and promotes work-life balance. Our values (integrity, respect, excellence), community dedication and commitment to excel in everything we do are the foundation of our culture.

L3Harris is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to treating all of its employees and job applicants with respect and dignity and to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination. Anyone applying for a position will be considered without regard to the following: race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, nationality, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability, citizenship status, or conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been granted or in respect of which a record suspension has been ordered, or any other characteristic that is protected by applicable human rights legislation.

L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and conducts pre-employment drug and alcohol testing and background checks, in accordance with applicable law. Such results are only accessible and viewed by individuals at L3Harris who have direct responsibility in the hiring process. If you fail to report for a drug and alcohol test, refuse to undergo such test or test positive for the presence of drugs or alcohol, the hiring process may be concluded or your offer of employment may be rescinded, in L3Harris’ sole discretion.

About L3Harris:L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue, 48,000 employees and customers in more than 100 countries. L3Harris.com

Everything we do here has a direct impact on the protection and security of human lives.

We thank all applicants for their interest but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Must be eligible to meet the requirements for U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)