Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in positive times and be resilient in bad times. 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. Flexible wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more Annual bonus the target (subject to personal and company performance):

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. Our pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers. We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.

Salary for the candidate will be determined taking into consideration a number of factors including: experience, skills, qualifications, anticipated contribution to role, internal equity, etc.

Intact

Insurance is seeking an experienced Senior Security Advisor to strengthen its Detection Engineering in cyber defence team. This role focuses on cloud and infrastructure security, threat detection, and the development of scalable security solutions. Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and security teams while managing priorities independently.

Monitor, validate, and investigate alerts using SIEM, EDR, XDR, and related security platforms.

Develop, tune, and maintain detection rules, security use cases, and threat signatures.

Reduce false positives and improve alert quality and response efficiency.

Administer core security tools, including Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Purview, and Jira. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or any combination of equivalent education and experience.





4–6 years of experience in cybersecurity, DevOps, or infrastructure.

Experience in security monitoring, including SIEM, SOAR, XDR, TIP, or UEBA platforms.

Knowledge of detection engineering, rule writing, MITRE ATT&CK;, and the Cyber Kill Chain.

Understanding of threat actors, attack techniques, phishing, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and data exfiltration.

Experience with cloud security across AWS, Azure, or GCP, including identity, logging, and network controls.

Experience with Azure VMs, Load Balancer, Terraform, Kubernetes, Linux, Python, Ansible, Syslog, Logstash, CrowdStrike, and Elastic.

Excellent oral and written communication skills in French and English – Security-related certification (CEH, GCIH, GCTI, GCFE or the equivalent), an asset.

No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada. #At Intact, our Value of respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength. We 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. As 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.

We 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. Please note that Intact does not provide sponsorship or other support for immigration-related matters including but not limited to employer-specific closed work permits.

If you are an employee of Intact or belairdirect, please apply for this role on Internal Career Site.

📌 Senior Security Advisor - Detection Engineering (Saint-Hyacinthe)
🏢 Intact Financial
📍 Saint-Hyacinthe