Cybersecurity Technologist: Advanced Threat Defense

ExxonMobil; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

ExxonMobil hosts a global business and technology center in Kuala Lumpur that provides high-level information technology and engineering expertise to ExxonMobil’s Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses worldwide.

In this role, you will work on protecting the organization by detecting, analyzing, and responding to cyber threats across on‑premises and cloud environments, while collaborating with teams to strengthen the security posture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity or related field; 3+ years of cybersecurity investigations, incident response, or related experience.
• Hands-on experience with forensic analysis, threat hunting, or malware analysis.
• Experience with enterprise IT infrastructures and security operations.
• Strong knowledge of SIEM/EDR platforms and security tooling.

Responsibilities

• Influence, implement and maintain security guidance / best practice, measures or controls to protect IT systems
• Monitor, support, and investigate cyber security events and incidents
• Support cyber and network security specific tools
• Collaborate with other Teams to develop and enforce security best practices or security plans
• Advocate for and raise awareness of cyber security
• Conduct or consult / support vulnerability management and testing
• Perform threat intelligence
• Manage external network connections and develop firewall policies
• Design and engineer cyber and network security solutions
• Make adjustments to monitoring and alerting and code the changes in production
• Collaborate with vendors to resolve operational issues

Skills

Cybersecurity

Incident response

Threat hunting

Forensic analysis

SIEM

EDR

Cloud security

Network security

Python

PowerShell

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity

Tools

Splunk

CrowdStrike

Job description

ExxonMobil hosts a global business and technology center in Kuala Lumpur that provides high-level information technology and engineering expertise to ExxonMobil’s Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses worldwide.

In this role, you will work on protecting the organization by detecting, analyzing, and responding to cyber threats across on‑premises and cloud environments, while collaborating with teams to strengthen the security posture.