Cybersecurity Detection Engineer / Purple Team

act digital

📍 montreal, qc, Canada

Full-time IT & Technology Posted May 31, 2026

Job Description

Act Digital is an international technology and cybersecurity consulting company supporting major organizations across digital transformation, cyber defense and security operations.

Within our cybersecurity activities, we support large enterprise and financial-sector clients on topics including:

  • SOC operations
  • Offensive security
  • Purple teaming

We are currently looking for a Detection Engineer to join a major financial-sector environment in Montreal.

About the Role

As a Detection Engineer, you will help improve and validate cybersecurity detection capabilities against modern attacker techniques.

This role combines detection engineering, purple teaming and offensive validation activities. The objective is not only to create detections, but also to continuously test and improve their effectiveness against realistic attack scenarios.

You will work closely with SOC, Incident Response and Security Engineeri...