SOC Engineering Lead (Cybersecurity)

Location: Toronto, with a flexible hybrid work model

Salary: CAD 120,000–135,000 per year, plus eligibility for a short-term incentive plan

Company

hirify.global is a Canadian financial technology company providing secure digital payments, identity verification, and fraud protection across digital and physical environments.

What you will do

• Lead the effectiveness, maturity, governance, and continuous evolution of SOC and detection engineering capabilities.
• Own the architecture, integration, performance, and reliability of SIEM platforms, security monitoring infrastructure, and supporting security technologies.
• Establish security data pipeline, logging, telemetry, normalization, enrichment, and coverage standards across the enterprise.
• Design, tune, optimize, and validate threat detection use cases aligned with threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Provide technical leadership during cybersecurity incidents, investigations, threat containment, red team, purple team, and adversary emulation exercises.
• Own the SOC engineering strategy and roadmap, driving automation, process optimization, resilience, scalability, and technology modernization.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, security operations, or a related discipline, including ownership or leadership of cybersecurity platforms, services, or capabilities.
• Strong experience in security monitoring, detection engineering, incident response, threat intelligence, and MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detection use cases.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM, EDR/XDR/NDR, security data pipelines, logging, and monitoring solutions.
• Strong understanding of network security, TCP/IP, systems hardening, cloud security, and modern cybersecurity architectures.
• Experience leading security platform transformations, migrations, or modernization initiatives in complex enterprise environments.
• Government of Canada Secret (Level II) clearance, or eligibility to obtain and maintain it, is required.

Nice to have

• Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CISA, CEH, OSCP, or equivalent.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work model supporting work-life balance.
• Vacation and wellness days, employer-paid benefits, and an employer-funded RRSP program.
• Confidential 24/7 employee and family assistance program.
• Pregnancy and parental leave top-up.
• Charitable donation matching and an inclusive, purpose-driven work environment.