Intern - Security Engineering Operations

Prudential Services Asia; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Prudential Services Asia in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a proactive Security Operations and AppSec Support professional to assist in daily monitoring, onboarding, and incident response across security platforms and applications.

You will help generate dashboards with Power BI, support vulnerability management, and contribute to process improvements while learning security best practices in a global financial services environment.

Qualifications

• Assist in daily monitoring and administration of security platforms (WAF, DLP, API Security, DDoS protection, email security).
• Support onboarding and offboarding activities for applications, websites, and users onto security platforms.
• Perform security configuration reviews and hygiene validation activities.
• Assist with security operational reporting, dashboard updates, and KPI tracking.

Responsibilities

• Assist in vulnerability management activities including SAST, SCA, API Security, Container Security and DAST findings tracking.
• Support triage preparation by consolidating scan results, evidence, and remediation status.
• Assist in preparing AppSec dashboards, metrics, and management reporting.
• Support application and API onboarding activities.
• Participate in security research on emerging vulnerabilities, CVEs, and threat advisories.
• Help maintain AppSec knowledge bases, playbooks, and standard operating procedures.

Skills

Security monitoring

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Tools

Power BI

SAST

DAST

WAF

Job description

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

Security Operations (STO) Support

• Assist in daily monitoring and administration of security platforms (WAF, DLP, API Security, DDoS protection, email security, etc.).
• Support onboarding and offboarding activities for applications, websites, and users onto security platforms.
• Perform security configuration reviews and hygiene validation activities.
• Assist with security operational reporting, dashboard updates, and KPI tracking.
• Participate in investigation of operational incidents, service requests, and user queries.
• Help maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and knowledge articles.

Application Security (AppSec) Support

• Assist in vulnerability management activities including SAST, SCA, API Security, Container Security and DAST findings tracking.
• Support triage preparation by consolidating scan results, evidence, and remediation status.
• Assist in preparing AppSec dashboards, metrics, and management reporting.
• Support application and API onboarding activities.
• Participate in security research on emerging vulnerabilities, CVEs, and threat advisories.
• Help maintain AppSec knowledge bases, playbooks, and standard operating procedures.

Security Engineering & Automation

• Maintain and hygiene simple automation scripts.
• Support data extraction, cleansing, and reporting from security tools.
• Assist in creating Power BI reports and operational dashboards.
• Participate in process improvement and workflow automation initiatives.

Governance & Awareness

• Support documentation reviews and process compliance activities.
• Assist in preparing presentations, reports, and communication materials.
• Participate in security awareness and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Support audit evidence collection and tracking activities when required.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.