Salary range (but not limited to):
101,800 - 124,400
Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance):
12%
As part of our commitment to Win As A Team, we share our success with employees through our annual bonus plan and Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) – with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.
Our pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers. We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.
Salary for the candidate will be determined taking into consideration a number of factors including: experience, skills, qualifications, anticipated contribution to role, internal equity, etc. The salary range presented above is based on a 35-hour workweek and would represent a majority of different candidate profiles. However, we encourage candidates who may fall outside of this range to apply as well.
About the role
Intact Insurance is seeking an experienced Senior Security Advisor to strengthen its Detection Engineering in cyber defence team. This role focuses on cloud and infrastructure security, threat detection, and the development of scalable security solutions.
What you'll do here:
- 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.
What you bring to the table:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or any combination of equivalent education and experience.
- 4–6 years of experience in cybersecurity, DevOps, or infrastructure. Experience in 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 – Need to interact on a regular basis with colleagues across the country.
- Security-related certification (CEH, GCIH, GCTI, GCFE or the equivalent), an asset.
- No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada.
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Ce poste jouera un rôle essentiel au sein de notre équipe. | This position will fill an essential role in our team.
