SOC Engineering, Lead
Interac Corp2 months ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the overall effectiveness, maturity, governance, and continuous evolution of SOC engineering, detection engineering, and security operations capabilities.
- Own the architecture, integration, performance, reliability, and data management of security monitoring platforms and supporting infrastructure.
- Ensure security data pipelines, logging, telemetry, normalization, enrichment, and ingestion provide comprehensive visibility for detection and investigation.
- Lead the design, development, tuning, optimization, and validation of threat detection use cases aligned with threat actor behaviors and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Provide technical leadership during cybersecurity incidents, investigations, containment activities, and detection validation exercises.
- Support red team, purple team, adversary emulation, and attack simulation activities to identify and address detection gaps.
- Develop the SOC engineering strategy and roadmap while driving automation, process optimization, technology modernization, resilience, scalability, and efficiency.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, security operations, or a related discipline, including ownership or leadership of cybersecurity platforms, services, or capabilities.
- Strong experience with security monitoring, detection engineering, incident response, threat intelligence, and development of detection use cases.
- Hands-on experience with SIEM, EDR/XDR/NDR, security data pipelines, logging, and monitoring solutions.
- Strong understanding of network security, TCP/IP, systems hardening, cloud security, and modern cybersecurity architectures.
- Experience leading security platform transformations, migrations, or modernization initiatives in complex enterprise environments.
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally, influence stakeholders, manage competing priorities, and communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Government of Canada Secret (Level II) clearance or eligibility to obtain and maintain it.
- Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CISA, CEH, OSCP, or equivalent are considered an asset.
Benefits
- Hiring range is $120,000-$135,000 plus eligibility for a short-term incentive plan.
- Flexible hybrid work model.
- Generous vacation and wellness days.
- Comprehensive employer-paid benefits coverage.
- Employer-funded RRSP program.
- Free and confidential 24/7 employee and family assistance program.
- Pregnancy and parental leave top-up.
- Charitable donation matching with United Way.
- Successful candidates must complete applicable pre-employment background checks, which may include criminal, credit, identity, employment, education, and social media checks.
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