Cyber Defence Engineer: Threat Detection & Cloud Security

Intact Insurance; Ireland; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Pension contributions

25 days annual leave

Career development

Inclusive culture

Share investment options

Job summary

Intact Insurance in Ireland is seeking a Cyber Defence Engineer to strengthen our cyber security capabilities across cloud and on‑prem environments. You will design, configure and optimise threat detection, logging, and telemetry to improve visibility and response to active threats.

You'll work with Sentinel/Defender and other security tooling, develop detection as code, and contribute to automation and testing of security rules in a fast‑paced, collaborative team.

Qualifications

• Experience with SIEM platforms and custom queries for alerts.
• Proficiency in KQL for detection engineering and threat hunting.
• Experience with cloud environments (Azure) and security services.

Responsibilities

• Developing, maintaining and improving threat detection logic across SIEM, endpoint and cloud monitoring tools.
• Ensuring logging and telemetry pipelines are correctly engineered, complete and validated.
• Enhancing visibility and analytics to ensure alignment with current threat activity.
• Supporting the development of detection as code and automate rule testing and deployment.

Skills

SIEM platforms (Sentinel/Defender)

Kusto Query Language (KQL)

Azure cloud

Logging & telemetry

Threat detection tooling

Vulnerability scanners

SAST/DAST tools

Job description

Intact Insurance in Ireland is seeking a Cyber Defence Engineer to strengthen our cyber security capabilities across cloud and on‑prem environments. You will design, configure and optimise threat detection, logging, and telemetry to improve visibility and response to active threats.

You'll work with Sentinel/Defender and other security tooling, develop detection as code, and contribute to automation and testing of security rules in a fast‑paced, collaborative team.