Senior Security Support Specialist

About us

Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.   

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real—and happening daily at Coalition.

About the role

In the Senior Security Support Analyst role, your mandate is to assist our policyholders in understanding how to use Coalition’s provided security tools in order to improve their risk posture and reduce the likelihood of a cyber attack and subsequent claim. Our Security Support Center provides world-class support to Coalition's 100,000+ policyholder base. 

We help policyholders navigate our security products, tailoring our messaging to the technical proficiency of the policyholder, explaining not only how to address critical security findings, but more importantly, why addressing those findings reduces the policyholder's risk and advances our shared goals of preventing a cyber attack. You will have the opportunity to work closely with our product and engineering teams to codify security best practices into our underwriting algorithms, rating models and risk management apps. This fully remote role is senior and highly visible: you will be expected to lead team initiatives, handle complex cases and projects, and act as a subject-matter expert (SME) for peers and stakeholders across Coalition. You will also be expected to demonstrate high throughput in handling case workload alongside your team, ensuring that our policyholders get rapid and valuable security guidance.

Responsibilities

Risk Assessment & Customer Advisory

Independently review and analyze the security posture of insureds and prospective insureds (SME, MM, and Large Market), providing fast, accurate, and high-quality analysis.

Evaluate customer security programs, technologies, controls, and business environments; develop tailored, actionable recommendations and enhancements.

Advise technical and non-technical stakeholders at customer organizations (e.g., IT Directors, CISOs, Security Engineers) on security architecture, cloud security, and control effectiveness, translating complex technical risks and security concepts into clear business impact and concise executive-level summaries for non-technical audiences.

Assess and clearly quantify and qualify security risk to enable underwriting and project leadership decisions, driving initiatives that reduce overall risk across the portfolio.

Technical Support

Provide technical support for Coalition’s security products via ticketing system and scheduled phone calls with policyholders and prospective policyholders.

Rapidly become a Subject Matter Expert on these security products, guiding users on how to properly leverage product capabilities and providing feedback to the Product and Engineering organizations to improve the products. 

Security Leadership

Participate in the Claims Feedback Loop (CFL) process to identify missing domains, root-cause claim indicators, and patterns in events; recommend process and control improvements to prevent future claims and further Coalition’s mission to Protect the Unprotected.

Participate in Zero Day Alert Outreach activities to notify policyholders about emerging threats detected on their attack surface.

Use your understanding of applied security concepts to independently assess and interpret scanning and security finding data for organizations of all sizes.

Identify deficiencies and gaps in external scanning data (coverage, depth, breadth, and types of scans); recommend and help prioritize improvements to internal tooling and scanning strategies.

Process, Product, Communication, Leadership, and Culture

Create, maintain, and enhance team documentation, runbooks, and knowledge bases to support consistency, scalability, and quality across the team.

Lead and be directly responsible for team initiatives and projects related to toolset enhancement, process changes, methodology updates, and cross-functional improvements.

Represent Coalition as an expert to policyholder security leaders, articulating complex security findings and recommendations in accessible language.

Mentor peers, contribute to team and department goals, and help create new solutions lead by example in upholding Coalition’s Kultura values.

Skills and Qualifications

4+ years of hands-on security analysis, security engineering, incident response, security product support or related experience, ideally including exposure to mid-market and large enterprise environments.

Demonstrated understanding of the lifecycle of network threats, attack vectors, and methods of exploitation, including common TTPs and how they manifest in real-world environments.

Proven ability to independently assess and clearly quantify and qualify security risk for complex organizations, and to translate technical risk into business terms.

Demonstrated experience advising technical stakeholders (e.g., IT/Security leadership) and tailoring recommendations to their environment and risk tolerance.

Experience working with or administering security support tooling (e.g., vulnerability scanners, SIEM, log analysis tools, external scanning platforms), with the ability to quickly achieve SME level in Coalition’s stack.

Strong interpersonal communication skills (verbal and written), including the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Self-motivated and comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic, and often ambiguous environment, with the ability to work independently with a high degree of autonomy while collaborating effectively across teams and managing multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Bonus Points 

Experience with common offensive and assessment tools such as Nmap, Nessus, Nexpose, Qualys, Burp Suite, Kali Linux, Metasploit, Meterpreter, Impacket.

Experience securing cloud-based platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), including system hardening procedures for Windows, Linux, and Unix.

Programming or scripting experience (e.g., Python, Go, Bash) to build or extend security tools, automate analysis, and integrate with industry frameworks and APIs.

Experience with SCADA / industrial control systems (ICS) networks.

Prior experience in cyber insurance, risk scoring, underwriting support, or security consulting for insurers or financial services is

Compensation

As a remote-first organization, our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several Canadian geographic markets. 

In Alberta, British Columbia & Ontario the base salary for this position ranges from $118,600/year up to $150,000/year. 

For all other locations, the base salary for this position ranges from $106,700/year up to $133,425/year. 

Consistent with applicable laws, an employee's pay within this range is based on a number of factors, which include but are not limited to relevant education, skills, job-related knowledge, qualifications, work experience, credentials, and/or geographic location. Your Recruiter can share more on the specific target salary range for your location during the interview process. Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.

Vacancy Status: This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Use of AI:  We utilize AI-assisted tools to help us organize and review the high volume of applications we receive. However, our human recruiting team makes all final hiring decisions and interview selections, valuing personal connection over algorithms.

Application Updates: Consistent with our commitment to transparency, if you are interviewed for this role, we will provide a status update on your application within 45 days of your final interview.

Perks

100% medical, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible PTO

Annual home office stipend and WeWork access

Mental & physical health wellness programs like Headspace, Lumino, and more!

Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement

Why Coalition? 

Work at Coalition is centered on the joint mission to Protect the Unprotected. We have built a remote-first, highly inclusive culture that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds. We trust each other to take responsibility, share ownership of outcomes, and put in the work together to protect businesses from digital risk. Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes while remaining true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.

We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.

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Accommodations

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