Security Operations (SecOps) Specialist

LeverageTek Staffing Solutions; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 84,000 - 102,000; Full time

Job summary

LeverageTek Staffing Solutions is seeking a Security Operations (SecOps) Specialist for a one-year term with a Ottawa-based customer. The position is remote, requiring eligibility for Reliability clearance and involves monitoring, investigating, and responding to security events across enterprise and cloud environments.

Key tasks include managing SIEM/SOAR/EDR tools, threat hunting, vulnerability management, and collaboration with IT teams to implement security controls.

Qualifications

• 3+ years with Azure services deployments & testing CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience executing tests within an active Azure Cloud Architecture.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, analyze, and respond to security events across enterprise and cloud environments.
• Investigate and triage security incidents, perform root cause analysis, and coordinate remediation activities.
• Operate and maintain security monitoring platforms (SIEM, SOAR, EDR) and cloud-native tools.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting to identify IOCs and emerging threats.
• Manage vulnerability assessment and remediation with technology teams.
• Develop and maintain security detection rules, playbooks, and response procedures.
• Monitor Azure environments using Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Defender XDR.
• Perform security investigations using log analysis, threat intel, and forensics.
• Support incident response including containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and cloud teams to implement controls.
• Assist with security audits, compliance assessments, risk reviews, and regulatory reporting.
• Monitor user and privileged access and support identity security initiatives with Microsoft Entra ID.
• Analyze security trends and threat intel to identify risks and mitigations.
• Develop security documentation, runbooks, and procedures.
• Participate in disaster recovery and cyber-incident simulation exercises.
• Support security awareness initiatives.

Skills

Azure Cloud

CI/CD testing

Azure DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Postman

SoapUI

ReadyAPI

Job description

LeverageTek is actively seeking a Security Operations (SecOps) Specialist for a one-year term position with its Ottawa-based customer.

Work Location

Remote

Security Requirement

Must be eligible for Reliability

Key Tasks

• Monitor, analyze, and respond to security events, alerts, and incidents across enterprise and cloud environments.
• Investigate and triage security incidents, perform root cause analysis, and coordinate remediation activities to minimize business impact.
• Operate and maintain security monitoring platforms, including SIEM, SOAR, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and cloud-native security tools.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting activities to identify malicious activity, indicators of compromise (IOCs), and emerging threats.
• Manage vulnerability assessment and remediation programs, working with technology teams to address identified risks.
• Develop and maintain security detection rules, analytics, playbooks, and response procedures to improve threat detection and response capabilities.
• Monitor and secure Azure cloud environments using Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, and related security services.
• Perform security investigations using log analysis, threat intelligence, and forensic techniques.
• Support incident response activities, including containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident reviews.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and cloud teams to implement and validate security controls and best practices.
• Assist with security audits, compliance assessments, risk reviews, and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Monitor user and privileged access activities and support identity security initiatives using Microsoft Entra ID.
• Analyze security trends and threat intelligence feeds to identify potential risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Develop and maintain security documentation, operational procedures, incident runbooks, and knowledge articles.
• Participate in disaster recovery, business continuity, and cyber incident simulation exercises.
• Support security awareness initiatives and provide guidance to technical teams on secure operational practices.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of security operations processes, automation, and tooling.

Key Qualifications

• 3+ Years with Azure services deploymnets & testing CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience executing tests within an active Azure Cloud Architecture.

Qualifications

• ALM & CI/CD: Azure DevOps (Boards, Pipelines, Repos, Test Plans), GitHub Actions
• Automation Frameworks
• API Testing Tools: Postman, SoapUI, ReadyAPI
• Database & Analytics: Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, Advanced T-SQL queries
• Proficiency in programming languages (C#, Python, or Java) and automation frameworks
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

Assets

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) or ISTQB Advanced Level Test Automation Engineer.

Compensation Based on qualifications and experience: $92,836.50

This role is open

About LeverageTek Staffing Solutions

Thank you for taking the time to apply! Since our company's inception in March 2003, LeverageTek Staffing Solutions has worked to become a trusted partner with our consultants and customers. LeverageTek provides end-to-end, cross-functional staffing solutions throughout North America. With thousands of successful engagements to our credit with leading public and private sector organizations, we are the experts in identifying, deploying, and supporting IT and business talent on a contract, contract-to-hire, and permanent basis.

Our responsive service and ability to deliver the right fit, on time and within budget, often leads to repeat engagements and a long-standing relationship.

Accessibility accommodations are available upon request.

LeverageTek's specialized recruiting professionals use their expertise and our proprietary AI to accelerate connections between top talent and leading companies, while ensuring all screening and hiring decisions remain with our expert human team.