SL374682-Summer 2026-CIS*6590 Professional Seminar in Cybersecurity

Sessional Lecturer Work Assignment
Sessional Lecturer, Unit 2
Academic Unit: 
School of Computer Science
Semester(s) of Assignment(s): 
Summer 2026
Number of Available Work Assignment(s) / Sections: 
1
Level of Work Assignment(s): 
1
Right of First Refusal (RoFR)
A Sessional Lecturer holds a RoFR (i.e., for a particular course) if they have successfully taught the course in the past six (6) semesters. A SL who holds a RoFR to this course is required to exercise their right by way of the online hiring system. Also see: What is Right of First Refusal (RoFR)?
A Sessional Lecturer Currently Holds a Right of First Refusal for this Course: 
Yes
Number of Assignments that Carry the Right of First Refusal: 
1
Course Details
Course Number: 
CIS*6590
Course Name: 
Professional Seminar in Cybersecurity
Course Format: 
Hyflex
Course Description: 
See Course Calendar
Projected Class Enrolment: 
50-60
Anticipated Duties and Responsibilities
Anticipated Duties and Responsibilities: 
Office Hours
Preparation
Student Consultation
Lecturing
Email Correspondence/Monitoring
Conducting Labs/Seminars
TA Coordination Meetings
Grading
Other Duties (specified below)
Other Duties Described: 
(1) Setting multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) in a multi-tenancy environment; (2) Isolating VPS belong to different users using NATTing or traffic routing techniques; (3) Conduct regular assessment of students access to different VPS and collect and compile activity logs; (4) Manage and maintain the given server(s) for pre-defined security engagement tasks.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Degree: 
Masters related to field
Other
Experience in the cybersecurity industry
Prior Teaching Experience: 
Successful teaching related to field at college or university level
Required competence, capability, skill and ability related to course content: 
• Experience of setting up Virtual Private Servers (VPS) • Experience of configuring and building virtual machines of dedicated cloud servers • Experience of network scanning and traffic routing between different VMs running on the cloud servers • Experience of building and managing cloud accounts • Experience of setting and managing VPN/SSH connections to remote cloud VPS • Experience of managing and maintaining remote (cloud) servers • Experience of working with security monitoring solutions • Ability to filter network traffics and identify out of norm network activities
Preferred Qualifications
Degree: 
PhD in progress related to field
Other
Experience in the cybersecurity industry
Prior Teaching Experience: 
Successful teaching related to field at college or university level.
Research Experience: 
Quality and or Recent Research activity in related field demonstrating knowledge of current developments in course content.
Quality and or Recent Research activity in areas relevant to the course demonstrating knowledge of current developments in course content.
Specific Preferred competence, capability, skill and ability related to course content: 
• Experience of port and service scanning • Working knowledge of Kali virtual machines • Working knowledge of Metasploit • Experience of engaging with active adversaries infrastructure
Days Required and Wages
Days and Times Required: 
Specific dates and times are TBA. Some seminars are delivered online and some are in-person sessions. 2-3 days in-person class requirement, plus occasional events and asynchronous workshops/seminars.
Period of the Work Agreement (Start Date and End Date): 
May 5, 2026 to August 21, 2026
Wages (per semester, per full-load): 
minimum $8,838.51 (effective 2025/26)
Other Posting Information
Application Deadline (All postings will automatically expire at 11:59 pm on this day): 
Monday, March 16, 2026
Posting Email Contact: 
socspost@uoguelph.ca
Hiring Contact Information: 
Lauren King, Instructional Support Coordinator

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