Senior Security Operations Analyst - Threat Detection

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

CPP Investments is seeking a Senior IT Analyst to protect the organization's information assets by monitoring security threats, investigating incidents, and strengthening controls. You will work with security professionals to provide actionable insights and support risk management across the enterprise.

You will help manage governance activities and coordinate remediation of audit findings while collaborating with internal stakeholders to address cybersecurity challenges, with a focus on

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in information security, cybersecurity, or a related technical discipline.
• Relevant cybersecurity certifications.
• Knowledge of security technologies including firewalls, antivirus, content filtering, SIEM, EDR, and DLP.
• Understanding of threat intelligence, automation, vulnerability management, and cloud security.
• Experience deploying or managing IT infrastructure or cybersecurity technologies is an asset.
• Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, analyze, investigate, and document security alerts from logs and threat intel sources.
• Manage security incidents following incident response frameworks and coordinate investigations.
• Deploy, maintain, and enhance information security controls across areas of responsibility.
• Conduct information security risk assessments and maintain risk registers.
• Produce threat intelligence reports and contribute security metrics to dashboards.

Skills

Incident response

Threat intel

Risk assessment

SIEM

EDR

DLP

Cloud security

Security governance

Communication

Education

Undergraduate degree

College diploma

Tools

Firewalls

Antivirus

Content filtering

SIEM

EDR

DLP

Job description

CPP Investments is seeking a Senior IT Analyst to protect the organization's information assets by monitoring security threats, investigating incidents, and strengthening controls. You will work with security professionals to provide actionable insights and support risk management across the enterprise.

You will help manage governance activities and coordinate remediation of audit findings while collaborating with internal stakeholders to address cybersecurity challenges, with a focus on