Senior Consultant, AI Security Solutions, Agentic Cyber Defense
About the Job
As a Security Consultant, you will be responsible for helping clients effectively prepare for, proactively mitigate, and detect and respond to cyber security threats. Security Consultants have an understanding of computer science, operating system functionality and networking, cloud services, corporate network environments and how to apply this knowledge to cyber security threats.
As a Security Consultant, you could work on engagements including assisting clients in navigating technically complex and high-profile incidents, performing forensic analysis, threat hunting, and malware triage. You may also test client networks, applications and devices by emulating the latest techniques to help them defend against threats, and will be the technical advocate for information security requirements and provide an in-depth understanding of the information security domain. You will also articulate and present complex concepts to business stakeholders, executive leadership, and technical contributors and successfully lead complex engagements alongside cross functional teams.
Canada: $166000 - $170000 (CAD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Analyze customer security operations performance and workflows to identify operational issues and areas that could be measurably improved through the implementation of technology.
- Propose innovative AI and automation strategies that optimize overall defense capabilities. Develop robust internal AI solutions, prompt pipelines, and MCP connectors to seamlessly integrate intelligent agents with core enterprise security platforms, including SIEM and SOAR solutions.
- Design, build, and maintain an internal library of agentic solutions and reusable skills that transform manual security operations into efficient, automated, and semi-automated workflows.
- Design and integrate AI-augmented detection use-case lifecycles, agentic response playbooks, and machine-speed threat hunting procedures.
- Operationalize advanced security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) capabilities, including the integration of connectors for automated case management.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in detection development, SIEM or SOAR administration, or security operations center (SOC) operations.
- Experience developing detections, automated response playbooks, and custom scripts (e.g., Python, Bash).
- Experience with AI-augmented SOC workflows, agentic security, or using LLMs to automate security operations.
- Experience integrating distributed systems via Cloud APIs or REST.
- Ability to travel up to 30% of the time as needed.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience developing and deploying detection and response content within modern SIEM solutions (e.g., SecOps, Elastic, Sentinel, Splunk, Cortex XSIAM).
- Experience building MCP servers and seamlessly integrating complex distributed systems via Cloud APIs.
- Experience with Python development and designing multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, and LLM tool-calling.
- Experience in client-facing consulting and communication.
- Familiarity with AI evaluation frameworks, production guardrails, and Google Cloud’s AI ecosystem.
- Background in cybersecurity operations (SOC, incident response, or detection development) using SIEM and SOAR platforms.
Additional Information
This posting is for a new vacancy.
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Summary
Designs AI-driven security solutions, automates SOC workflows, and leads cybersecurity engagements.
Job title
Senior Consultant, AI Security Solutions, Agentic Cyber Defense
Experience level
5+ years
Minimum experience
5+ years exp
Industry
cybersecurity
Location requirements
Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal; remote work not specified
Salary
C$166k–C$170k
Management role
No
Required skills
Preferred skills
Specializations
Structured locations inferred from the posting.
Toronto, ON, Canada
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Montreal, QC, Canada