Head of Cyber Defence & Incident Response

• Location: Qaudient offices, Markham Ontario, Canada or Eastern USA (EST Time zone)
• The Head of Cyber Defence and Incident Response owns the organisation’s cyber defence capability across a hybrid environment (mix of on‑prem and cloud platforms), ensuring effective monitoring, detection, response and recovery.
• Reports directly to the CISO and leads cyber defence operations (including the MSSP) and cybersecurity incident response across the organisation. This fits within the context of the broader organizational Crisis Management plan owned outside Technology.
• A key focus is optimising security tooling (e.g., SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, NDR, email security, vulnerability scanning) and driving strong vulnerability and threat management, using threat intelligence to prioritise defensive improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the incident response lifecycle (prepare, detect, analyse, c...