Incident Response Automation Engineer

Wealthsimple Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Top-tier health benefits

Hybrid work model

Unlimited paid time off

Zusammenfassung

Wealthsimple Inc. is seeking a curious, hands-on Incident Response Developer to join our Detection & Response team. You’ll work with senior responders to investigate security incidents, improve response processes and build automation that scales.

You’ll gain hands‑on experience with real incidents and receive mentorship to grow in the craft. The ideal candidate has a foundation in security fundamentals and enthusiasm for automating repetitive work.

Qualifikationen

• 3+ years of experience in cybersecurity.
• 1–2+ years of hands‑on incident response experience, owning investigations end to end.
• The ability to coordinate responders and stakeholders during an incident, and know when to escalation.
• Experience using a SIEM to turn noise into signal, including writing queries and tuning alerts.
• Proficiency with AI coding tools to build and maintain automation.
• A workflow mindset: you can look at a messy, recurring problem and break it into steps that tooling or AI can take on.
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Discretion and sound judgment when handling sensitive information, such as HR and insider‑threat matters.
• Clear, honest and inclusive communication with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Good judgment under pressure, in technical problem solving and in working across teams.
• A strong desire to learn from the team and others.

Aufgaben

• Strengthen incident response by automating steps and building relationships with Engineering teams.
• Own investigations from triage to documentation.
• Act as Incident Commander for low- and medium‑severity incidents.
• Turn recurring incident types into repeatable workflows from design to tooling.
• Report incident trends and metrics to inform priorities.
• Work with Security Engineers to monitor, refine and expand SIEM and SOAR platforms.
• Investigate potentially fraudulent and sensitive activity with HR, Fraud and Privacy teams.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation for incident response and support.
• Develop high‑fidelity detection rules based on trends and threat intelligence.

Kenntnisse

Cybersecurity

Incident response

Incident coordination

SIEM usage

Automation tooling

Workflow design

Cloud infrastructure

Discretion & judgment

Stakeholder communication

Working under pressure

Learning mindset

Tools

SIEM software

Automation tooling

AI tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT)

Jobbeschreibung

Wealthsimple Inc. is seeking a curious, hands-on Incident Response Developer to join our Detection & Response team. You’ll work with senior responders to investigate security incidents, improve response processes and build automation that scales.

You’ll gain hands‑on experience with real incidents and receive mentorship to grow in the craft. The ideal candidate has a foundation in security fundamentals and enthusiasm for automating repetitive work.