TA120298- Fall 2019-CIS*6530 Cyber Threat Intelligence and Adversarial Risk Analysis

Teaching Assistant Work Assignment
Posting Details
Type of Work Assignment and Bargaining Unit: 
GSA-1, Unit 1
Academic Unit: 
School of Computer Science
Semester(s) of Assignment(s): 
Fall 2019
This Work Assignment(s) may be assigned to fulfill the terms and conditions of a guaranteed Job Security Period: 
N/A
Course Details
Course Number: 
CIS*6530
Course Name: 
Cyber Threat Intelligence and Adversarial Risk Analysis
Course Format: 
In-Class
Course Description: 
See Course Calendar
Other Course Description or Assignment Information: 
The total number of assignments is a low estimate of the number of available appointments. The final number may be higher and it will depend on class enrolment at the time of assignment.
Projected Class Enrolment: 
N/A
Level of Appointment for GTA, GSA-1 UTA(s)
The following is an estimate of number and levels of available appointments at the time of posting. This may change (increase or decrease) at the time of assignment contingent on departmental needs.
This Posting includes Multiple Work Assignments: 
No
Number of Available 0.5 (70 hour) Work Assignments: 
0
Number of Available 0.75 (105 hour) Work Assignments: 
0
Number of Available Full 1.0 (140 hour) Work Assignments: 
1
Total Number (Load) of Assignment(s) Available: 
1
Duties and Responsibilities
Anticipated Duties and Responsibilities: 
Preparation
Email Correspondence/Monitoring
Meetings
Other Duties (specify below)
Other Duties Described: 
-Setting multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) in a multi-tenancy environment. • Isolating VPS belong to different users using NATTing or traffic routing techniques. • Conduct regular assessment of students access to different VPS and collect and compile activity logs. • Manage and maintain the given server(s) for pre-defined security engagement tasks.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications: 
• 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: 
• 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: 
See duties and qualifications above, as well as WebAdvisor for lecture and lab days and times.
Period of the Work Assignment (Start Date and End Date): 
September 5, 2019 to December 20, 2019
Wage Rate (per hour, per semester, per Full-load 1.0 Work Assignment): 
GSA $42.52/hr; $5954.98/semester effective 2019/20
Other Posting Information
Application Deadline (All postings will automatically expire at 11:59 pm on this day): 
Monday, May 27, 2019
Posting Email Contact: 
socspost@uoguelph.ca
Hiring Contact Information: 
Opeyemi Adesina Instructional Support Coordinator oadesina@uoguelph.ca

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