Hybrid SOC Analyst: Threat Detection & Incident Response

EPAM Systems Inc; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 60,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc. is seeking a Security Operations Center Analyst in Kuala Lumpur with a hybrid work arrangement. The role focuses on monitoring and triaging alerts, investigating suspicious activity, and escalating confirmed threats to support incident response.

You will work with SIEM and SOAR platforms and contribute to detection tuning and threat intelligence. Responsibilities include monitoring across on-premises and cloud (AWS), producing investigation summaries, and maintaining SOC

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in a Security Operations Center or enterprise security operations.
• Experience with alert monitoring, triage, investigation, false-positive identification and incident escalation.
• SIEM experience with Splunk, IBM QRadar, ArcSight, LogRhythm, Elastic Stack (ELK) or Wazuh.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity fundamentals including network security, firewalls, IDS/IPS, common attack techniques and detection methods.
• Familiarity with Windows and Linux logs plus network device logging and security event analysis.
• Understanding of endpoint security, identity and access monitoring, malware fundamentals and security hardening basics.
• Clear documentation skills to communicate incidents and findings to technical stakeholders.
• Shift flexibility to support coverage aligned to Sydney business hours.

Responsibilities

• Monitor SIEM and security tools for attacks, intrusions and suspicious activity across enterprise environments.
• Triage alerts, confirm severity, identify false positives and escalate validated threats.
• Run security investigations, analyze logs and gather evidence to support incident response.
• Use SIEM and SOAR platforms to support monitoring, investigation and response workflows.
• Monitor identity and access activity, including suspicious authentication and potential permission misuse.
• Support threat hunting, threat intelligence and detection tuning as needed.
• Produce investigation summaries and security reports for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to day-to-day Security Operations Center coverage and handovers to maintain continuity.

Skills

SOC experience

SIEM

Threat investigation

Windows logs

Linux logs

Endpoint security

Documentation

Triage and escalation

SOAR platforms

Tools

Splunk

IBM QRadar

ArcSight

LogRhythm

Elastic Stack

Wazuh

Cortex XSOAR

GuardDuty

Proofpoint

Palo Alto Wiz

Job description

EPAM Systems Inc. is seeking a Security Operations Center Analyst in Kuala Lumpur with a hybrid work arrangement. The role focuses on monitoring and triaging alerts, investigating suspicious activity, and escalating confirmed threats to support incident response.

You will work with SIEM and SOAR platforms and contribute to detection tuning and threat intelligence. Responsibilities include monitoring across on-premises and cloud (AWS), producing investigation summaries, and maintaining SOC