
Security Advisor Specialist – Detection Engineering
Intact
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Montréal • Canada
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Salary
💰 CA$118,700 - CA$145,100 per year
About the role
- Collaborate as a member of the development team to design, implement, and maintain robust security solutions in cloud environments.
- Integrate security practices seamlessly throughout the application lifecycle to enhance the overall security posture.
- Proactively identify and resolve security issues using advanced troubleshooting, analysis, and remediation skills.
- Develop and maintain secure and scalable solutions within a containerized environment, ensuring high reliability and performance.
- Conduct tuning activities to mitigate false positive or noisy alerts.
- Use big data and real-time streaming technologies to build and refine threat detections.
- Investigate anomalous and suspicious behavior for new detection opportunities.
- Conduct alert validation and triage within SIEM and EDR platforms.
- Research, build, and maintain detection capabilities for the latest threats across SIEM correlations and security tool signatures.
- Research and innovate net new mitigation, detection, and response capabilities given input from industry trends, customer feedback, and personal research.
- Build security detections and detection frameworks.
Requirements
- 5 to 8 years in cybersecurity or DevOps or infrastructure team.
- At least 3 years of experience in IT Security monitoring (SIEM, SOAR, XDR, TIP, UEBA).
- Good Understanding of Log sources: EDR, SIEM, NDR, DNS, email, web proxy, identity (AD/Azure AD), SaaS.
- Good Understanding of Query languages: SPL, KQL, SQL; correlation and pivoting techniques.
- Good Understanding of Detection engineering: rule writing, ATT&CK mapping.
- Good Understanding of Detection-as-Code.
- Understanding of threat actors, motivations, and campaigns.
- Understanding of Phishing/social engineering, initial access vectors, privilege escalation, lateral movement, exfiltration.
- Understanding of Frameworks: MITRE ATT&CK/D3FEND, Cyber Kill Chain.
- Knowledge of indicators of compromise (IOCs) vs indicators of attack (IOAs).
- AWS/Azure/GCP identities, logging, network controls; common attack paths (IMDS, SSRF, misconfig.
- Ability to work effectively in a team while being autonomous.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Passion for continuous learning and innovation.
- Your experience and application knowledge in the insurance field, an asset.
- Good understanding of common security gaps in data/AI applications.
- Bilingual (French and English): Need to interact on a regular basis with an English-speaking clientele and colleagues across the country.
- No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model
- Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year
- Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more
- Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
cybersecurityIT Security monitoringSIEMSOARXDRTIPUEBAdetection engineeringquery languagesDetection-as-Code
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationteamworkautonomycontinuous learninginnovation