Senior Cyber Defense Engineer page is loaded## Senior Cyber Defense Engineerlocations: Torontotime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R-211461What Makes Us, Us Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success.

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO USWe are looking for a Senior Cyber Defense Engineer who wants to be in a technical role. Instead, you 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 the logging strategies that make our monitoring possible.Key Responsibilities Detection Engineering: Design, build, and tune advanced detection logic within Microsoft Sentinel using KQL.

Logging & Monitoring: Lead the strategy for centralized logging.

Optimize Log

Analytics workspaces to ensure high-fidelity data ingestion while balancing cost and performance.

Cloud Security Posture (CSPM/CWPP): Own and manage Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Drive the remediation of security recommendations and bridge the gap between security alerts and engineering fixes.

Architectural Collaboration: Partner with Infrastructure and Solution Architects to ensure security is baked into the foundation of our Azure landing zones and CI/CD pipelines.

End-to-End Project Leadership:



Take high-level security objectives and translate them into technical roadmaps. Apply a solid understanding of Azure networking, IAM (Entra ID), and compute services to identify and mitigate configuration drift.Technical Qualifications Azure Security Expertise: 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).

Network Security Topology: Expertise of 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. Capable of translating technical security risks into business impact for stakeholders and align on co-operation models.

Since SimCorp operates in 30+ offices worldwide, the benefits package may vary from country to country.



Simcorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days.NEXT STEPS Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-qualified information from your application.

SimCorp Canada welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Who We

Are** For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 4,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds. SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law.

We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. The salary range for this position is 113 840,00 - 170 760,00 CAD Annual. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and benefits including health and dental care, time off and Group RRSP/TFSA.

Your total compensation may vary based on role, location, department and individual performance.

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📌 Senior Cyber Defense Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Simcorp
📍 Toronto