Senior Security Analyst - Incident Response

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What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

This is a hybrid role based out of Toronto. Hybrid is 3 days a week onsite and 2 days a week remote

SAP Enterprise Cloud Services is looking for a Senior Security Analyst with a strong technological and security background across the stack. Your focus topic will be Security Incident Response
. You will respond to incidents escalated from various sources and will analyzing complex security events targeting customer and company applications, data and systems following both documented procedures as well as industry best practices and creative resolutions. Ideal candidates should be a creative problem solver and quick learner able to adapt quickly to the evolving cybersecurity attack landscape.

Further, you will be owning and driving important security topics across all domains for our customers and work with various teams involved in implementation, delivery and operation of cloud services. Furthermore, you will participate in ongoing projects, initiatives, and Security and Compliance Office daily operations.

• Investigate security events and incidents
• Provide communication and escalation throughout the incident per the Triage guidelines
• Communicates directly with stakeholders during high severity events
• Hunt for suspicious anomalous activity based on data alerts or data outputs from various toolsets
• Perform analysis of log files, asset data and other threat and alert information
• Take an active part in the containment of events of interest, even after they are escalated
• Handle customer escalations around security end to end
• Ensure implementation and execution of security strategy and policy
• Evaluate and identify opportunities of potential information security and privacy improvements and drive projects in this area
• Work closely with various stakeholders from many initiatives to understand needs, define requirements and translate these into security processes

• University degree with focus on Cybersecurity or Computer Science, Business Informatics, or related field
• 5 years experience in Security Incident Response
• Proven expertise in IT security, SAP Basis security, SIEM, Firewall, WAF, and other related technologies
• Knowledge of data analysis techniques
• Knowledge of networking and application communication protocols and SIEM technologies and how to utilize that data for traceability back to event source
• Ability to work well in a global distributed team as well as independently and have a positive self‑motivated can‑do attitude
• Excellent analytical skills and focus on quality
• Strong communication skills in English
• Proactive behavior, high willingness to learn and to drive projects

SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) is delivering RISE with SAP with our customers. ECS provides a private cloud platform, infrastructure and managed services focusing on fast time‑to‑value to enable the Intelligent Enterprise. You will be part of a globally growing team.

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end‑to‑end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose‑driven and future‑focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development.

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