Senior Incident Response Analyst

Check Point Software; Montreal; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Check Point Software is seeking a senior SOC professional in Montreal to lead daily incident management and advanced forensic analysis. You will direct enterprise-scale response efforts, create remediation recommendations, and communicate findings to customers.

The role requires extensive cybersecurity experience, 2–5 years in T3 incident response, and the ability to coordinate complex investigations across a global team. Domestic travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Extensive cybersecurity experience with focus on incident handling and response.
• 2–5 years in T3 incident response emphasizing system compromise analysis.
• Experience in analyzing and securing network environments using manual and automated tools.
• Proven ability to develop procedures and runbooks for security teams.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotation, including weekend shifts.
• Travel may be required domestically or internationally.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily incident handling for customer incidents.
• Perform incident response and forensics on compromised systems with remediation guidance.
• Direct incident response efforts, prioritize actions, and document findings clearly.
• Coordinate global incident responses and complex investigations.
• Conduct large-scale compromise assessments for customer environments.
• Develop incident response plans and tabletop exercise scenarios.
• Create detailed incident reports and communicate findings to customers.
• Build sandbox/test labs to safely evaluate malware.
• Collaborate within a team and coordinate work actions.

Skills

Senior cybersecurity

T3 incident response

Security risk assessments

Incident crisis management

Attack simulation

On-call rotation

Job description

At Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation.

Our prevention-first approach safeguards hybrid networks, cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems, stopping attacks before they happen.

This is where innovation meets real-world impact. You’ll help customers across industries operate with confidence in a rapidly changing digital world, working alongside smart, curious people who take ownership, challenge assumptions, and solve complex problems.

We’re proud to be recognized by TIME, Newsweek, and Forbes for excellence and workplace culture.

What really sets Check Point apart is the opportunity to grow, contribute, and help companies navigate their AI transformation securely.

If you’re excited to work at the forefront of AI-driven security on a global scale, this is the place to do it.

Job Description

• Responsible for daily incident management of customer incidents
• Perform incident response and forensic analysis of compromised systems, identify and provide recommendations for remediation
• Formulate and direct incident response efforts, prioritize those response efforts, and create legible incident reports that describe the compromise vector, attacker methodologies and artifacts
• Ability to manage complicated global incidents
• Ability to perform large-scale compromise assessments for customer environments
• Build incident response plans and playbooks
• Create attack scenarios for customer tabletop training exercises
• Creation of detailed incident reports for customers and effective communication of findings to customers
• Build and maintain sandbox/test lab environments to evaluate malicious code
• Work within a team environment and will be responsible for coordinating work actions

Qualifications

• This is not an entry level SOC role.
• 10+ years of cybersecurity experience out of which 2-5 years are experience performing T3 incident response with an emphasis on system compromise analysis.
• Experience of performing security reviews/vulnerability risk assessments of network environments using both manual procedures and automated analysis tools.
• Experience with enterprise security solutions, incident crisis management.
• Experience with performing attack simulation for training security teams.
• Experience with creating procedures and documented plans for security teams.
• Ability to participate in on-call rotation, including at least one weekend a month.
• Domestic and International travel may be required.

EOE M/F/Veterans/Disabled