Senior Cyber Defense Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Cyber Defense Engineer who wants to be in a technical role. Someone comfortable moving across our Azure security landscape will play a key role across the end‑to‑end security lifecycle, shaping strategy, driving initiatives, and contributing deep expertise from building efficient detections in Sentinel and managing incident response to designing logging strategies that enable our monitoring. Crucially, you will act as a bridge to our Architects, ensuring our cloud infrastructure is built to be secure from the ground up.

We value ownership and initiative. We are looking for an engineer who can identify a security gap, plan the solution, and drive a taskforce to deliver the solution. If you are a problem‑solver who enjoys having a direct, visible impact on the security posture of a global platform, we want to talk to you.

Key Responsibilities Design, build, and tune advanced detection logic within Microsoft Sentinel using KQL; develop playbooks and workbooks to automate response actions and visualize threats. Lead the strategy for centralized logging and optimize Log Analytics workspaces to ensure high‑fidelity data ingestion while balancing cost and performance. Own and manage Microsoft Defender for Cloud, drive remediation of security recommendations, and bridge the gap between security alerts and engineering fixes.

Partner with Infrastructure and Solution Architects to ensure security is baked into the foundation of our Azure landing zones and CI/CD pipelines. Take high‑level security objectives, translate them into technical roadmaps, plan, execute, and report on progress directly to leadership. Apply a solid understanding of Azure networking, IAM (Entra ID),



and compute services to identify and mitigate configuration drift.

Technical Qualifications

Deep, practical experience with the Azure Security stack, specifically Microsoft Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, and the Microsoft Defender portal. Mastery of KQL (Kusto Query Language) for threat hunting and detection rule creation.

Experience designing scalable logging architectures (Diagnostic settings, Event Hubs, Log Analytics). Expertise in Azure‑native networking security, including Azure Firewall, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and Private Link/Private Endpoints to ensure zero‑trust connectivity.

Experience securing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and containerized workloads using Defender for Containers and admission controllers.

Key Skills Ability to drive initiatives from concept through to delivery with minimal supervision and navigate in a global organization. Clear communication skills, capable of translating technical security risks into business impact for stakeholders. Methodical approach to root‑cause analysis and system design improvements. Benefits

SimCorp offers a range of benefits that may vary by country, including a global hybrid policy that requires work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days.

Salary (Toronto only): 113 840,00 - 170 760,00 CAD Annual. Employees are also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and benefits such as health and dental care, time off, and Group RRSP/TFSA. Total compensation may vary based on role, location, department and individual performance. SimCorp is an equal‑prospect employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law.

📌 Senior Cyber Defense Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 SimCorp A / S
📍 Toronto