For over 50 years, LifeLabs has been Canada’s leading provider of laboratory diagnostic information and digital health connectivity systems, enabling patients and healthcare practitioners to diagnose, treat, monitor and prevent disease. We are passionate about empowering healthier Canadians through accessible, accurate, and innovative diagnostic services.

We are committed innovators, operating Canada's first commercial genetics lab, and the country's largest online patient portal, with more than 8 million Canadians receiving their results online. More than 112 million laboratory tests come through LifeLabs’ laboratories annually, and our team of more than 6,000 passionate, caring, and diverse professionals works together as one to provide high quality testing and results that Canadians can trust.

We know that behind every lab requisition, sample being tested, or investment in technology is an individual and their family counting on us. At LifeLabs, you can make a meaningful impact on Canadians’ lives every day.

Our teams are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be recognized as one of Canada’s Best Employers, reflecting our deep commitment to our core values of caring, agility, teamwork, and a customer-centered approach. As part of this commitment, LifeLabs prioritizes the ongoing development of our diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program to better serve the needs of our diverse workforce and the communities we serve. We continue to take steps to challenge ourselves to act with courage and integrity, and to create an environment where people can be their true selves.

These values are not just words on a page, they guide our actions and decisions every day and have come to define our team culture.

Job Title:



Security Projects and Operations Engineer

Reports to: Senior Manager, Security Engineering, Architecture & SOC

Vacancy status: This posting is for an existing position.

Purpose of the Role

The Security Projects and Operations Engineer is responsible for ensuring LifeLabs’ cybersecurity tools and platforms are properly deployed, consistently maintained, and operating at peak effectiveness. This role ensures that each security technology is correctly configured, fully integrated with other systems, and routinely validated through bi annual tuning and performance reviews.

The Engineer supports both operational security activities and project-driven initiatives, ensuring that security controls function as intended, are aligned with best practices, and meaningfully reduce risk across the environment. This includes hands on configuration, troubleshooting, documentation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams and external vendors.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

Security Tool Configuration, Integration & Maintenance

- Ensure correct configuration, deployment, and ongoing maintenance of LifeLabs’ core security technologies, including:
- Firewalls: Palo Alto, FortiGate or Miraki
- Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF)
- CrowdStrike
- SIEM
- Netskope, Forescout, ExtraHop

- Perform bi‑annual tuning, validation,



and optimization of each tool to ensure maximum detection accuracy and minimum false positives.
- Maintain integrations between security tools, logging systems, identity platforms, and workflow automation technologies.
- Ensure all tools generate appropriate telemetry and forward logs to the SIEM and related systems.
- Maintain configuration baselines, version control, and change management documentation.

Security Operations Support & Threat Mitigation

- Support daily security operations by addressing escalations from analysts and engineering teams.
- Conduct detailed analysis of alerts and events involving tool telemetry, misconfigurations, or anomalies.
- Assist with containment, remediation, and eradication activities during security incidents.
- Develop and refine detection logic, dashboards, and alerting rules within assigned tools.
- Collaborate with SOC and engineering teams to ensure tool outputs effectively support threat detection and response workflows.

Project Delivery & Cross‑Functional Collaboration

- Lead or support security technology projects including onboarding recent tools, upgrades, migrations, integrations, or capability expansions.
- Partner with infrastructure, cloud, network, and application teams to ensure security tool requirements are met during project delivery.
- Provide subject matter expertise on network segmentation, endpoint protection, cloud security controls, and threat visibility.
- Participate in technical reviews and provide recommendations based on best practices and threat landscape changes.

Documentation, Reporting & Continuous Improvement

- Maintain detailed and accurate

📌 Security Projects and Operations Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services
📍 Toronto