Senior Security Analyst (PermanentFull-Time)

CoreFactor is searching for a Senior Security Analyst on a permanent/full-time basis for a client in the GTA.

This position is hybrid and will require the successful incumbent to be in the office four (4) times per week.

The Opportunity:

The Senior Security Analyst will report to the Cyber Security Operations Manager and play a key role in strengthening and maturing the organizations security operations capabilities. This is an opportunity to provide senior-level expertise across monitoring detection investigation and incident response activities while helping advance cybersecurity operations.

This role requires a highly motivated and experienced security professional with strong analytical technical and problem-solving skills. The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in security monitoring alert triage incident investigation threat detection and containment across endpoint network cloud identity and enterprise platforms. Acting as a senior liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders this role will be responsible for leading complex investigations improving detection coverage supporting incident response activities and communicating security risk in a clear and actionable manner. A strong foundation in security frameworks attack techniques and operational best practices is essential.

The Role:

• Monitor triage and investigate security alerts and events across SIEM EDR email security identity cloud and network security platforms.
  
• Lead complex incident investigations including scoping containment coordination root cause analysis and post-incident follow-up activities.
  
• Perform advanced threat hunting and anomaly analysis to identify malicious activity suspicious behaviour and emerging attack patterns across enterprise environments.
  
• Develop tune and optimize detection logic SIEM use cases correlation rules playbooks and alerting processes to improve visibility and reduce false positives.
  
• Partner with infrastructure cloud networking and application teams to support containment eradication and recovery activities during security incidents.
  
• Review and analyze endpoint network identity and cloud telemetry to assess impact determine attack paths and support risk-based response decisions.
  
• Support incident response readiness through development and maintenance of investigation procedures response playbooks escalation paths and documentation.
  
• Perform threat intelligence review and translate relevant indicators tactics techniques and procedures into actionable detection and response improvements.
  
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders and external partners as required during investigations including evidence gathering case management and reporting.
  
• Participate in 24x7 incident response support and provide senior-level operational guidance during major security events and escalations.
  
• Identify opportunities to improve SOC processes detection coverage automation and analyst workflows to strengthen operational effectiveness.
  
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external service providers to strengthen security operations processes detection coverage and incident response effectiveness.
  
  

Requirements

• Proven hands-on experience with SIEM EDR and other enterprise security monitoring platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel Splunk Defender XDR or equivalent tools.
  
• Strong knowledge of SOC operations including alert triage incident analysis containment support case management escalation and post-incident review.
  
• Experience developing and tuning detections analytics correlation rules and response workflows to improve visibility and reduce noise.
  
• Advanced analytical and investigative skills with the ability to interpret logs telemetry and attacker behaviour across endpoint identity cloud email and network environments.
  
• Strong understanding of attack techniques adversary behaviour and security frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK NIST or equivalent operational models.
  
• Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with business acumen communicate investigation findings clearly and support risk-based decisions during security events.
  
• High attention to detail and a strong commitment to producing accurate concise and audit-ready investigation notes reporting and recommendations.
  
• Ability to work effectively across Infrastructure Cloud Data Applications and business functions to support security operations incident response and risk-based decision-making.
  
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships influence stakeholders and coordinate cross-functional response activities during security incidents and operational escalations.
  
• Strong collaboration and mentoring capabilities with a willingness to support team development and contribute to an open inclusive and high-performing security operations environment.
  
• Highly organized with the ability to manage competing priorities coordinate follow-ups and track investigations and security initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging for technical teams leadership and business stakeholders.
  
• Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience across information security functions such as security operations incident response threat detection threat hunting digital forensics or security engineering.
  
• Hands-on experience investigating complex security incidents across endpoint network identity email and cloud environments.
  
• Experience leading or coordinating incident response activities escalations or cross-functional security investigations in a complex enterprise environment.
  
• Experience with modern SOC tooling case management processes and operational reporting is strongly preferred.
  
• Bachelors degree in Information Technology Engineering Computer Science or a related discipline is preferred.
  
• Professional certifications in Information Security such as GCIH GCIA CISSP Security SC-200 SC-900 or equivalent are preferred.
  
• Relevant cloud incident response threat hunting or digital forensics certifications are considered an asset.
  

Required Skills:

Post-secondary education in Engineering or related technical discipline from an accredited college or university. Knowledge of core development principles (e.g. algorithms and data structure OOP design patterns SOLID principles) 2 years of experience in programming (Python C# JavaScript XML). Comfortable using relational databases and SQL. Ability to analyze problems and find solutions. Ability to work in an industrial environment (i.e. Work in a dusty hot non-climate-controlled environment; with stairs frequent walking standing and occasional lifting of material). Must excel at working independently and in group settings. Must have an aptitude to multitask effectively. Experience using a Version Control System (Git).

Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1