Senior Security Analyst

Sagard Overview:

Sagard is a multi-strategy alternative asset management firm active in venture capital, private equity, private credit and real estate. Sagard also engages in private wealth management through Sagard Wealth. 

Founded in 2016 and guided by the core values of entrepreneurship, innovation, collaboration, rigour and authenticity, Sagard has experienced outstanding growth. Today, the firm has more than US$32 billion under management, 190 portfolio companies and 440 professionals.

Sagard is well positioned to continue to grow substantially, organically and inorganically, pursuing its vision of becoming one of the best-performing investment management firms. 

Headquartered in Canada, Sagard currently has offices in Canada, the United States, Europe and the Middle East.

More at https://www.sagard.com/.

Position Overview: 

We are seeking a Senior Security Analyst to strengthen our security operations function with deep expertise in advanced incident investigation, threat hunting, and incident response (L2/L3). This role also drives improvements in detection quality by applying DevOps and automation practices to modernize logging, alerting, and automated response orchestration.

You will partner closely with IT, cloud, engineering, service partners and broader business teams to continuously elevate Sagard’s security posture in a dynamic and entrepreneurial environment.

Compensation range: CAD$100,000 to CAD$140,000

Responsibilities: 

• Lead L2/L3 security incident investigations from detection through remediation and post-incident analysis.

• Conduct proactive threat hunting across SIEM, XDR/EDR, network, and cloud environments to identify emerging threats.

• Build, tune, and maintain security detections, correlation logic, and analytics aligned to evolving threat techniques.

• Improve security telemetry, logging coverage, and signal quality across environments.

• Develop automation and orchestration workflows to accelerate incident triage and response.

• Administer and optimize security platforms including SIEM, XDR, email, and network security tools.

• Partner with cloud, infrastructure, and engineering teams to embed security monitoring across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments.

• Develop and maintain security policies, playbooks, and runbooks; support vulnerability management and risk prioritization.

• Assist in other Cybersecurity related tasks as required. 

Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of security operations experience with emphasis on incident response, threat detection, and monitoring.

• Proven ability to lead advanced incident investigations and coordinate response activities.

• Hands-on experience with security platforms including SIEM, XDR/EDR, email, and network security tools.

• Demonstrated experience building and tuning detections, reducing alert noise, and developing automation.

• Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash).

• Working knowledge of cloud security monitoring and detection across modern cloud environments.

• Familiarity with vulnerability management, risk assessment, and security operations frameworks.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills; security certifications or SOAR experience a plus.

Sagard is an equal opportunity employer, which values diversity in the workplace. We are therefore happy to accommodate any individual. 

If you require accommodation in order to participate in the hiring process, please contact the People & Culture team to make your needs known in advance.

Sagard may use automated tools, including artificial intelligence, to support certain stages of the recruitment and selection process.