EDR & Cloud Security Defender

Pride Global; Selangor; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pride Global in Malaysia is seeking an experienced EDR & Cloud Security Support Specialist to monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts across EDR/XDR and cloud environments, ensuring remediation within SLAs. You will work with SOC and infrastructure teams, investigate incidents, malware, and credential activity, and support Defender for Cloud, Entra ID, and cloud IAM with strong troubleshooting.

3–5+ years of hands-on security experience is required.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of experience in EDR, endpoint security, cloud security or SOC operations.
• Hands-on with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint / Defender XDR or equivalent EDR/XDR.
• Good understanding of endpoint telemetry and security investigations.
• Experience investigating malware, ransomware, PowerShell and endpoint compromise.
• Strong knowledge of Azure security and Entra ID; Defender for Cloud familiarity.
• Understanding of cloud IAM, networking, security controls and logging.
• Good incident management, escalation and SLA awareness.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and investigate EDR/XDR security alerts and incidents.
• Perform endpoint investigations covering processes, files, hashes, and network activity.
• Investigate malware, ransomware, PowerShell and credential-related activity.
• Isolate, remediate and perform approved response actions.
• Monitor endpoint health, sensor status and protection coverage.
• Troubleshoot EDR agent deployment, connectivity and telemetry issues.
• Support EDR policy configuration, exclusions and alert tuning.
• Coordinate with SOC, Infra and Endpoint teams for remediation.
• Track unresolved issues and ensure timely closure within SLA.
• Monitor and investigate security alerts across Azure/AWS/GCP environments.
• Support Microsoft Defender for Cloud and cloud security monitoring.
• Investigate suspicious cloud authentication and privilege escalation.
• Monitor cloud security posture, recommendations and alerts.
• Support Entra ID investigations and cloud security logging/SIEM integration.

Skills

EDR/XDR security

Security investigations

Troubleshooting

Incident response

Tools

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Defender XDR

Azure security

Entra ID

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Cloud IAM & logging

Job description

Pride Global in Malaysia is seeking an experienced EDR & Cloud Security Support Specialist to monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts across EDR/XDR and cloud environments, ensuring remediation within SLAs. You will work with SOC and infrastructure teams, investigate incidents, malware, and credential activity, and support Defender for Cloud, Entra ID, and cloud IAM with strong troubleshooting.

3–5+ years of hands-on security experience is required.