Intact

Security Advisor Specialist – Detection Engineering

Intact

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: MontréalCanada

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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

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Hard Skills & Tools
cybersecurityIT Security monitoringSIEMSOARXDRTIPUEBAdetection engineeringquery languagesDetection-as-Code
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationteamworkautonomycontinuous learninginnovation