Description
Wealthsimple is seeking an experienced and hands-on security professional to join its Detection & Response team as a Senior Incident Response Developer. This critical, technical role focuses on strengthening the company's ability to respond to and recover from security threats.
The ideal candidate has a deep, technical background in hands-on incident response and a keen eye for where automation can improve and scale capabilities. Responsibilities include:
- Building relationships with Engineering teams and creating new playbooks to enhance security incident response capabilities
- Growing others in the art of Incident Response to support the program and increase consistency in outcomes
- Playing a key role in building and shaping the Security Incident Response team
- Taking the role of Incident Commander to bring incidents to resolution
- Turning recurring incident types into repeatable workflows
- Helping shape the direction of investment by informing the business of trends and relevant metrics
- Partnering with Security Engineers to monitor, refine, and expand SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Coordinating with HR, Fraud, and Privacy teams to investigate potential fraudulent and sensitive activity
- Participating in an on-call rotation for responding to security incidents
- Developing new, high-fidelity detection rules based on incident trends and threat intelligence
The role requires:
- 5+ years of experience in the Cybersecurity domain
- 3+ years of experience as an Incident Manager
- Ability to lead a team during high-stress situations
- Understanding of how to use a SIEM effectively
- Proficiency with AI coding tools
- Knowledge of cloud infrastructure
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
Wealthsimple offers top-tier health benefits, life insurance, long-term group savings, 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year.