Senior Security Advisor - Detection Engineering

Our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times.

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. 
  

• 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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We are an equal opportunity employer

At Intact, our Value of respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength. We strive to create an accessible workplace where employees feel valued, included and encouraged to share their unique perspectives.

We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

As part of Intact’s commitment to reconciliation, we acknowledge that we work, meet and travel across the land currently called Canada, originally inhabited by First Nations, Metis and Inuit people. This history extends through many centuries and continues to evolve today.

We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations). A copy of applicable policies is available on request.

If we can provide a specific adjustment to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please let us know when we reach out about a job opportunity. We’ll work with you to meet your needs.

Learn more about our recruitment process and your candidate journey here.

Please note that Intact does not provide sponsorship or other support for immigration-related matters including but not limited to employer-specific closed work permits. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada from the anticipated start date and throughout their employment and are solely responsible for maintaining their work eligibility.

If you are an employee of Intact or belairdirect, please apply for this role on Internal Career Site.