Cyber Threat & Security Data Engineer

Sicpa; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

SICPA in Cyberjaya, Malaysia, seeks a Cyber Threat & Security Data Engineer to join a fast-moving SOC. The role blends operations and engineering, monitoring alerts and responding to incidents, while building data pipelines for threat detection.

You will onboard data sources, maintain data quality, work with security architects, and contribute to SOC policies. Strong English, 3+ years in SOC, and knowledge of SIEM and API data parsing are expected.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years in SOC/CERT/CSIRT with monitoring, hunting and incident response.
• Bachelor degree in Cyber security or equivalent.
• Experience with data ingestion, log management, ETL/ELT concepts or security data pipelines.
• Understanding of data quality, normalization and schema management.
• Knowledge of APIs, JSON, data parsing and automation scripting (Python, PowerShell).
• Interest in AI-enabled and Agentic SOC operating models.
• Hands-on experience with security technologies such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM, anti-malware, web filtering, vulnerability scanning.
• Strong enterprise IT knowledge including networking, OS, cloud and SaaS services.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the firm’s environment for abnormal behaviour and triage security alerts.
• Launch response measures to security incidents within the SICPA network.
• Utilize forensic tools to understand incident scope.
• Perform threat hunting across infrastructure for undetected malicious events.
• On-call duties on a scheduled basis; daytime operations only.
• Design, implement and maintain security data pipelines and data lake.

Skills

SOC experience

Threat hunting

Incident response

Data ingestion

ETL/ELT

APIs/JSON

Automation scripting

Security architectures

English communication

Education

Bachelor degree in Cyber security

Tools

SIEM

Firewalls

IDS/IPS

Endpoint detection and response

Forensic tools

Job description

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Cyber Threat & Security Data Engineer

Posted on: 4 Nov 2026

Location: Cyberjaya, Malaysia

Department: SECURITY

CYBER THREAT AND SECURITY DATA ENGINEER

ROLE:

The SOC at SICPA is built of the most advanced and recent cyber technologies. Without levels distinction (Tier-1/2/3), the Cyber Threat & Security Data Engineer has an exclusive role and will perform both Operations duties and Engineering activities.

Operational activities:

• Monitor the firm’s environment for abnormal behaviour and potential security breaches by triaging security alerts generated by cyber detection tools.
• Launch response measures to security incidents within the SICPA network, infrastructure, identity management and applications.
• Utilize industry standard network and host forensic tools in order to fully understand the scope of an incident.
• Perform threat hunting by searching our existing infrastructure for signs of malware and malicious events not detected by our existing security controls.
• Perform on call duties on a scheduled basis.
• Operations is performed during business hours (no night operations).

Engineering activities :

• Design, implement and maintain security data pipelines, security data lake and data architecture used for threat detection, investigations, reporting and Agentic SOC capabilities.
• Ensure the quality, normalization, availability and reliability of security telemetry by continuously monitoring data health, ingestion performance and pipeline operations.
• Onboard new security and IT data sources into the SOC ecosystem, including log collection, parsing, enrichment and data validation.
• Define, develop and maintain parsers, schemas and mappings required to maximize data usability across detection and investigation platforms.
• Work closely with security architects, platform engineers and threat analysts to ensure security data supports current and future detection use cases.
• Develop a strong working relationship with key business and technical partners to ensure cross-organization, co-operation and business support.
• Help to develop, implement, and maintain SOC policies, processes and procedures.

PROFILE

• Experience in a similar environment (SOC, CERT, CSIRT) including Monitoring, Hunting and Incident response including Investigation and Forensic (minimum 3 years)
• Bachelor degree in Cyber security or equivalent.
• Experience with data ingestion, log management, ETL/ELT concepts or security data pipelines.
• Understanding of data quality, data normalization and schema management principles.
• Knowledge of APIs, JSON, data parsing and automation scripting (Python, PowerShell or similar).
• Interest in AI-enabled and Agentic SOC operating models.
• Practical experience with security technologies such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM, anti-malware, web filtering, vulnerability scanning and endpoint detection and response tools.
• Hands‑on experience in investigating and responding to common types of cyber attacks.
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT, including networking infrastructure, operating systems, cloud and SaaS services, systems administration, data centers and software applications.
• Good communications skills to effectively summarize and present findings.
• Very good knowledge of English both written and spoken, other languages are an asset. Ability to engender positive and reliable work attitude when confronting with high pressure business situations.

JOIN US!

We offer an exciting and challenging role, with great potential for personal development and a truly global impact. Help us contribute to a more secure world and enable trust in the digital society!