Senior Security Analyst (Cybersecurity)

Location: Montreal, Canada; hybrid work with work from home up to 2 days per week

Company

hirify.global develops technology and communication solutions for airports, airlines, borders, and the global air travel industry.

What you will do

• Act as the primary escalation point for junior SOC analysts and provide expert guidance during investigations.
• Lead complex security incident investigations, validating alert classification, severity, scope, and escalation decisions.
• Perform advanced threat analysis and correlate data across SIEM, EDR/XDR, cloud, identity, network, and endpoint environments.
• Develop and optimize detection rules, correlation logic, SOC use cases, investigation playbooks, and alert tuning activities.
• Identify detection gaps and false-positive trends using the MITRE ATT&CK framework, while mentoring SOC analysts and improving SOC standards.
• Support vulnerability validation, risk prioritization, remediation coordination, reporting, tabletop exercises, and post-incident reviews.

Requirements

• Advanced experience investigating and responding to security events with SIEM and EDR/XDR platforms.
• Strong knowledge of incident investigation, triage, escalation, enterprise security environments, and common cyberattack techniques.
• Experience analyzing logs from endpoints, cloud services, identity platforms, networks, firewalls, proxies, VPNs, and applications.
• Proficiency with KQL, Lucene, EQL, Sigma, and scripting with PowerShell and/or Python.
• Technical knowledge of Windows, Linux, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Azure/AWS, networking, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, cybersecurity, computer science, or a related field, plus 3–5 years of SOC L2 or equivalent security operations experience.

Nice to have

• SC-200, GCIH, GCIA, CySA+, ECIH, or another recognized cybersecurity certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Flex Week: work from home up to 2 days per week, depending on team needs.
• Flex Day: adjust the workday to suit personal plans.
• Flex Location: work from any location in the world for up to 30 days per year.
• Access to a 24/7 employee assistance program and Champion Health platform.
• Professional development through LinkedIn Learning and internal training programs.
• Benefits are designed according to the employee’s country and contract type.