Senior Security Advisor – Detection Engineering

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About the role

  • Senior Security Advisor strengthening Intact Insurance’s cyber-defense detection engineering. Building cloud security, threat detection, and scalable security solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain secure cloud, on-premises, and containerized environments
  • Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and security teams while managing priorities independently
  • Support log ingestion, normalization, filtering, troubleshooting, and platform maintenance
  • Monitor, validate, and investigate alerts using SIEM, EDR, XDR, and related security platforms
  • Develop, tune, and maintain detection rules, security use cases, and threat signatures
  • Investigate suspicious activity and identify new detection, mitigation, and response opportunities
  • Reduce false positives and improve alert quality and response efficiency
  • Administer core security tools, including Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Purview, and Jira

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or equivalent education and experience
  • 4–6 years of experience in cybersecurity, DevOps, or infrastructure
  • Experience with security monitoring, including SIEM, SOAR, XDR, TIP, or UEBA platforms
  • Knowledge of detection engineering, rule writing, MITRE ATT&CK, and the Cyber Kill Chain
  • Understanding of threat actors, attack techniques, phishing, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and data exfiltration
  • Experience with cloud security across AWS, Azure, or GCP, including identity, logging, and network controls
  • Experience with Azure VMs, Load Balancer, Terraform, Kubernetes, Linux, Python, Ansible, Syslog, Logstash, CrowdStrike, and Elastic
  • Strong communication, collaboration, prioritization, and troubleshooting skills
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills in French and English
  • Must be eligible to work in Canada from the anticipated start date and throughout employment
  • Security-related certification such as CEH, GCIH, GCTI, or GCFE is an asset

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model
  • Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year
  • Multiple benefits supporting physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine and Wellness account
  • Share plan and other savings of up to 12% of salary or more
  • Annual bonus target of 12% of base salary, with potential payout up to double the target, subject to personal and company performance
  • Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) with Intact matching 50% of net shares
  • Defined benefit pension plan with opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life
  • Workplace adjustments (accommodations) for people with disabilities

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$101,800 - CA$124,400 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AnsibleAWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxLogstashPythonTerraform

Location requirements

HybridMontrealCanada

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