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Active Detection Engineer for Cybersecurity Operations

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Company

act digital

Location

montreal, Canada

Posted

June 06, 2026

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About This Opportunity

Enhance your impact as a Detection Engineer at Act Digital in Montreal’s financial sector. Your role will focus on advanced detection strategies to combat modern cyber threats.

Act Digital offers a challenging opportunity for a Detection Engineer to improve and validate detection capabilities. Engage in detection engineering and purple teaming while working alongside SOC and Incident Response teams. Your mission will involve not only creating detections but also testing them against realistic attack vectors.

Key Responsibilities:
• Assess and refine existing detection use cases
• Create new detection logic and analytics models
• Conduct offensive testing to validate detections
• Discover gaps in endpoint and network detection
• Simulate techniques in line with MITRE ATT&CK

Requirements:
• 3+ years in cybersecurity roles
• Expertise in Detection Engineering and Threat Detection
• Hands-on experience w...