Senior Manager, CSIRT

Work Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:
37.5

Line of Business:
Technology Solutions

Pay Details:
$108,800 - $163,200 CAD

This role is temporarily eligible for a pay premium above the posted salary range that is reassessed annually. You are encouraged to have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide more specific pay details for this role.

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

Job Description:

TD Bank is seeking a Senior Manager, CSIRT, to lead and mature its technical cyber incident response capability, focused on threat containment, investigation depth, and response precision. This hands-on leadership role is ideal for a technical incident response leader who thrives under pressure, excels in root cause discovery, and is motivated to lead experts that chase and detect adversaries across memory, disk, logs, and networks.

You'll lead the tactical side of incident detection and response - coordinating response actions, providing tuning recommendations for detections, and ensuring technical containment is rapid, accurate, and complete. Your team will own the technical response lifecycle, working alongside Cyber Threat Intelligence, Attack Surface Reduction, Cyber Threat Detection, and Fusion Incident Management.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Lead Technical Response Operations:
  • Guide the CSIRT through detection, isolation, and containment from cyber events and incidents, including malware campaigns, targeted attacks, insider misuse, and credential abuse
• Coordinate Cross-Team Response:
  • Act as the technical leadership pivot between CSOC, Attack Surface Reduction, Cyber Threat Detection, and other Cyber Threat Management functions. Ensuring that investigations are cohesive, fast-moving, and thorough.
• Drive Incident Lifecycle Excellence
  • Own the technical execution of incidents from triage to containment. Maintain high standards for process, procedures, documentation, root cause analysis, control improvement opportunities, and lessons learned.
• Advanced Detection & Response Tooling
  • Work with engineering teams to tune EDR/XDR, enrich telemetry, and improve signal fidelity in tools including Microsoft XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon, and Defender for Endpoint.
• Integrate Automation & Playbooks
  • As Product Owner own and evolve CSIRT response playbooks within SOAR tools. Driving automation is a foundational imperative for decision support, enrichment, isolation, and containment where appropriate.
• Develop a Skilled, Adaptive Response Team
  • Mentor team members in modern attack investigation, detection, and response techniques - cloud, identity, network, endpoint, data, and lateral movement patterns and TTPs. Build team readiness through tabletop, scenario-based exercises, and active capability assessments to ensure skills are assimilated and can be applied dynamically during active attacks and incident response.

• Own Strategy, Roadmap & Risk Oversight
  • Define and drive the 3-year capability roadmap for CSIRT, aligning with enterprise threat priorities, evolving adversary tradecraft, and regulatory expectations.
  • Translate strategy into operational plans, maturity goals, and resourcing models.
  • Maintain visibility on key risks and control gaps related to response readiness, ensuring they are actively tracked, escalated, and addressed in partnership with 1B, second line and audit stakeholders.

EXPERIENCE

• 8-12+ years in a blue team/red team technical function, with a strong focus on incident response and technical threat operations.
• 3+ years in a leadership role within CSIRT, CSOC L3, or equivalent tactical incident response team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND DEPTH

• Incident triage and attacker behavior investigation across logs, EDR/XDR, and SIEMs; with domain experience in investigating events and attacks in: endpoints, servers, networks, data stores, and cloud environments.
• Experience with Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike Falcon, and Microsoft XDR stack
• Strong understanding of SIEM and data workflows (e.g. Splunk, Sentinel, and LogScale)
• Automation and scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash)
• Extensive familiarity with attack chains, behavior mapping, and detection engineering (MITRE ATT&CK)
• Use of SOAR tools to drive playbook orchestration for enhancement, enrichment, classification, decisioning, and kinetic actions.

CERTIFICATIONS (Preferred)

• GIAC (GCIH, GCIA, GDAT) or equivalent hands-on IR expertise

SOFT SKILLS

• Analytical. Precise. Battle-tested
• Able to lead a technical team through high-severity investigations while keeping clarity, continual assessment and reassessment, discipline, and resolute calmness under pressure.

Why join TD

• Lead the bank's front-line containment and investigation capability against real-world cyber threats
• Partner with elite threat intelligence, attack surface reduction, and cyber threat detection teams to drive integrated defense
• Influence tooling, telemetry, and response workflows across the TD technology and cyber organizations
• Be the team that others call when it matters most - and the one that always delivers

Who We Are:

TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we deliver legendary customer experiences to over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to the Bank, those we serve, and the economies we support. We are guided by our vision to Be the Better Bank and our purpose to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues.

TD is deeply committed to being a leader in customer experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are customer facing. As we build our business and deliver on our strategy, we are innovating to enhance the customer experience and build capabilities to shape the future of banking. Whether you've got years of banking experience or are just starting your career in financial services, we can help you realize your potential. Through regular leadership and development conversations to mentorship and training programs, we're here to support you towards your goals. As an organization, we keep growing - and so will you.

Our Total Rewards Package
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Additional Information:
We're delighted that you're considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we're committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

Colleague Development
If you're interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You'll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD - and we're committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you've got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process
We'll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation
Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you'd like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Language Requirement (Quebec only):
Sans Objet