Position Overview
At Lyrical, we help customers transform security efforts into adaptive risk management programs. Our high touch/high value services are delivered to customers across North America through Advisory, Offensive, Professional, and Managed Security Services. The heart of our Managed Service is the Lyrical Risk Operations Centre (“ROC”). As a Security Engineer, you'll work as a part of the ROC to design, build, assess, maintain, optimize, and provide best practice recommendations for Lyrical infrastructure and customer environments, with a focus on automation, innovation, and effective risk control.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and maintain Microsoft Azure environments, including VMs, storage, networking, and cloud services.
- Oversee the configuration and administration of Active Directory (AD), including Group and Policy management, user provisioning, and identity management.
- Monitor and optimize system performance, ensuring the availability and reliability of Microsoft systems and services.
- Deploy and configure Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Identity, and O365 to protect against security threats.
- Conduct regular security assessments of Azure environments and provide configuration recommendations to align with industry best practice hardening benchmarks
- Adopt a SecDevOps model to automate security processes and workflows to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
- Manage system upgrade planning and execution.
- Support large-scale deployments with data feeds from multiple data centres and cloud services.
- Keep up to date with updates, patching, and threat intelligence feeds.
- Perform test scenarios to validate alerting capabilities, such as malware detection, incident response, and monitoring.
- Provide Tier 2 and 3 support for IT security and system-related issues, including responding to user queries.
- Create and maintain knowledge bases related to system architecture and operational processes.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent work experience.
- Certifications (e.g., Azure Security Engineer Associate, Azure Certified Identity and Access Management Associate, CISSP) are highly desirable.
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in Microsoft systems administration, with expertise in managing and securing O365, Azure environments and Active Directory (AD)
- Experience deploying and configuring Microsoft Defender
- Experience with Bash, PowerShell, Python, and/or Go to support automation scripting, manage configurations, integrate with APIs, and parse data.
- Experience with integrating solutions in a multi-vendor environment, including SaaS environments
- Intimate knowledge of enterprise logging, with a focus on security event logging
- Experience with integrating and reporting on O365, Azure, and AWS log feeds
- Experience implementing, configuring, and maintaining SIEMs (especially Microsoft Sentinel) would be an asset
- Experience with enterprise-scale operations and maintenance environments
- Strong technical, analytic and problem-solving skills combined with the ability to provide quick resolution to problems.
- Excellent English written & verbal communication skills. This role will be interacting directly with users.
- Demonstrable success in thinking strategically and executing tactically, while providing consistent and high levels of customer satisfaction and retention in a fast-paced environment
Because our team members are trusted to handle sensitive information, we require all candidates that receive and accept employment offers to complete a background check before being hired.
What We Offer
Paid Time Off: Benefit from a comprehensive package offering generous vacation days, sick leave, personal days, and designated time off for statutory holidays.
Healthcare Coverage: Medical, dental, and extended health services for you and your family at no cost.
Flexible Health Spending: Tailor your healthcare with a flexible Health Spending Account.
Fully Remote: Work from the comfort of your home with our fully remote setup.
Connectivity Stipend: Receive a stipend for phone and Wi-Fi expenses to stay seamlessly connected.
About Lyrical Security
Lyrical Security is a fast-growing Cybersecurity and Risk Management Services company, based in Markham, Ontario with employees located across Canada in a fully remote operating model.
Lyrical brings enterprise solutions to companies of all sizes across North America, helping our customers to protect their most critical assets with resilient cyber security and risk management technology and services. We dig deeper to understand our customer’s needs and tailor solutions to detect, respond, and prevent security incidents ahead of the threat while maintaining compliance with best practices. Customers across North America trust our Managed, Advisory, Professional, and Offensive Security Services to protect their businesses all day, every day.
At Lyrical Security, we foster a culture that reflects our deepest convictions and aspirations. Our Core Values serve as the inspiration for our collective goals, forming the foundation of our company and guiding every decision.
Customer and Partner Excellence
Our customers and partners are at the heart of everything we do. We prioritize serving our customers and partners with unparalleled excellence, understanding their unique challenges and delivering tailored solutions that exceed expectations.
Wellness with Purpose
We recognize the importance of employee well-being and take action to promote a mindful approach to work-life balance, stress management, and mental health. We actively promote employee well-being through initiatives that foster work-life balance, stress management, and mental health support, ensuring our team thrives both professionally and personally.
Ownership and Accountability
We take ownership of our commitments and actions, maintaining the highest ethical standards and delivering on our promises with integrity and transparency. Each team member takes responsibility to ensure commitments are met and learn from challenges to continuously improve.
Community Impact
We actively engage and support the communities where we live and work as our commitment to making a positive impact. By leveraging our resources and expertise, we support local needs and enhance community well-being through strategic philanthropy and corporate social responsibility initiatives.
Respect for Diverse Perspectives
We value and respect diverse perspectives, fostering an inclusive environment where every voice is heard, valued, and contributes to our collective success. We encourage employees to share insights, concerns, feedback, and solutions, supporting each other through inclusion, trust, and collaboration to foster a culture that is flexible, open to new ideas, and quick to adapt.
Growth and Purposeful Development
We recognize that change is constant, demanding new skills, knowledge and understanding. We embrace change and growth through continuous learning and development, empowering our team to innovate, adapt, and lead with expertise and purpose.
These values define who we are and guide our actions, ensuring we uphold our commitment to excellence, integrity, and positive impact in everything we do.
For more information about us, visit Lyrical's website at www.lyricalsecurity.com
We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. In keeping with our values, no employee or applicant will face discrimination/harassment based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. Lyrical Security also strives to prevent other, subtler forms of inappropriate behavior from ever gaining a foothold in our organization. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Lyrical Security.
