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About the Role
In threat intelligence and vulnerability management at PwC, you will focus on identifying and analysing potential threats to an organisation's security, as well as managing vulnerabilities to prevent cyber attacks. You will play a crucial role in safeguarding sensitive information and enabling the resilience of digital infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Assist in onboarding new clients — requirements gathering, policy baselining, and go-live support.
- Continuously monitor the health of security applications and appliances, taking appropriate actions to ensure their optimal performance.
- Integrate new data sources into data protection platforms.
- Create and enforce policies following best practices, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements. Also, tune policies to address gaps.
- Identify tuning opportunities to reduce alert noise and improve signal fidelity.
- Provide troubleshooting and support for configurations and management of data protection systems.
- Be available for on-call rotation to address urgent data protection issues and incidents.
- Build and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Current State Assessments (CSA), and runbooks for documentation purposes.
- Understand and maintain security platforms, ensuring they are used to their full potential.
- Work closely with client focal points to provide regular updates (weekly/monthly/quarterly).
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, building and maintaining positive working relationships.
- Provide knowledge transfer sessions to peers and client personnel as required.
- Operate and configure Data Protection solutions (DLP, DSPM).
- Manage quarantine, policy exceptions, and user escalations.
- Ability to design, configure, and validate enforcement data protections policies and rules.
- Support use-case development, threat modeling around insider risk and data exfiltration scenarios.
- Perform root cause analysis and document incident reports.
- Support compliance audits and operational reporting.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of hands-on experience in data protection operations (DLP and DSPM).
- Proven expertise in at least two primary technologies (Microsoft Purview, Microsoft AIP, Cyera, Big ID, SkyHigh, Trellix Symantec/Broadcom, Forcepoint, Varonis, Netskope ).
- Exposure to secondary tools (SIEM solutions like Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps, Splunk, Exabeam) is a plus.
- Proficient in Incident Management and Change Management.
- Ability to handle high pressure situations with key stakeholders internally and externally
- Good analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills
- Experience in performing vendor management
- Willingness to adapt to evolving threats and technologies, continuously learning and updating skills to stay ahead of emerging threats in the cybersecurity landscape.
- Experience working in an MSSP environment.
Skills
- Data Protection Operations
- DLP
- DSPM
- Microsoft Purview
- Microsoft AIP
- Cyera
- Big ID
- SkyHigh
- Trellix Symantec/Broadcom
- Forcepoint
- Varonis
- Netskope
- SIEM solutions
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Google SecOps
- Splunk
- Exabeam
- Incident Management
- Change Management
- Vendor Management
- Analytical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Interpersonal Skills
- Cloud Security
- Cyber Defense
- Cyber Threat Intelligence
- Information Security
- Intelligence Analysis
- Intrusion Detection
- IT Operations
- Malware Analysis
- Malware Detection Tools
Experience Level
- Senior Associate
Salary/Compensations
- $84,700 - $134,700
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Inclusive benefits
- Flexibility programs
About the Company
- At PwC, our people in cybersecurity focus on protecting organisations from cyber threats through advanced technologies and strategies. They work to identify vulnerabilities, develop secure systems, and provide proactive solutions to safeguard sensitive data.
- We’re inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you’ll be a part of diverse teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life.
- PwC Canada acknowledges that we work and live across Turtle Island, on the land that is now known as Canada, which are the lands of the ancestral, treaty and unceded territories of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples. We recognize the systemic racism, colonialism and oppression that Indigenous Peoples have experienced and still go through, and we commit to allyship and solidarity.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re committed to providing accommodation throughout the application, interview, and employment process. If you require accommodation to be at your best, please let us know during the application process.
- Nous tenons à répondre à vos besoins tout au long du processus de demande d’emploi, d’entrevue et d’embauche. Si vous avez besoin de mesures d’adaptation pour être parfaitement à l’aise, faites-le-nous savoir à l’étape de la demande d’emploi.