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Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times.\nOur employee promise represents Intact’s commitment to you in exchange for living our Values, striving to do your best work, being open to change and investing in your career. In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us.\nPay at Intact is about much more than just salary.\nFlexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model\n\nPossibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year\n\nMultiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more\n\nShare plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)\n\nSalary range (but not limited to):\n80,700 - 98,700Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance):\n10%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.\nOur pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers. 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However, we encourage candidates who may fall outside of this range to apply as well.\nAbout the role\nWe’re looking for a Security Analyst II to join our growing team!\nWhat you'll do here:\nMonitor, triage, and investigate security alerts and incidents across endpoint, network, identity, cloud, and application environments.\nPerform incident response activities, including containment, eradication, and post-incident follow-up.\nConduct in-depth analysis of security events using SIEM, EDR/XDR, network monitoring, email security, and vulnerability management tools.\nCorrelate logs and telemetry from multiple sources to identify attack patterns, root causes, and indicators of compromise.\nIdentify, assess and recommend information security solutions that meet the business and security needs.\nDevelop and execute incident response playbooks, procedures, and escalation processes.\nContribute to the improvement of detection rules, dashboards, and incident response use cases.\nDocument investigations, technical findings, timelines, impact assessments, and recommended remediation actions.\nEscalate complex or high-impact incidents to senior analysts, incident commanders, and relevant technology or business stakeholders.\nCollaborate with infrastructure, cloud, identity, application, privacy, legal, and risk teams during incident response activities.\nSupport vulnerability remediation, attack-surface reduction, and improvements to security monitoring coverage.\nParticipate in security exercises, tabletop scenarios, lessons-learned reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.\nContribute to security operations metrics, reporting, knowledge articles, and operational documentation.\nParticipate in an on-call or after-hours incident response rotation.\nStay up to date with information security newsfeeds, threat actors tactics and techniques.\nBe willing to learn new technologies.\nWhat you bring to the table:\nBachelor’s degree in information technology, or any combination of equivalent education and experience\n3+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security operations, incident response, digital forensics, or a related field.\nHands-on experience investigating and responding to security incidents in enterprise environments.\nStrong knowledge of incident response methodologies, the cyber kill chain, MITRE ATT&CK, and security operations best practices.\nExperience with SIEM, EDR/XDR, vulnerability management, network security, identity security, and cloud security tools.\nPractical understanding of common attack techniques, including phishing, credential theft, malware, ransomware, lateral movement, persistence, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration.\nStrong analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively under pressure.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nStrong documentation skills and a disciplined approach to maintaining incident records and evidence.\nAbility to manage multiple investigations, prioritize competing demands, and make sound decisions during rapidly evolving incidents.\nCollaborative mindset and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.\nOne or more relevant certifications, such as GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, GCFE, CISSP, Security+, CySA+, CEH, or an equivalent credential, would be an asset.\nExperience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS would be an asset.\nExperience in a regulated, financial services, insurance, or large-enterprise environment would be an asset.\nNo Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada.\nFor candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English-speaking colleagues across the country\nCe poste jouera un rôle essentiel au sein de notre équipe. | This position will fill an essential role in our team.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer\nAt 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.\nWe 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.\nAs 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.\nWe 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.\nIf 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. 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