Security Consultant

NTT MSC Sdn Bhd; Selangor; Sur place; MYR 180 000 - 280 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

NTT DATA is seeking a Security Consultant to lead the practice’s cyber resilience and security advisory portfolio. You will shape and deliver security assessments, cyber recovery, and MVC engagements, and drive security architecture within large programs for regulated clients.

You will develop proposals, lead threat and vulnerability assessments, and define recovery priorities with minimum viable company concepts, while engaging with senior stakeholders across client organisations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Industry relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CISA essential.
• CRISC, SABSA, ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor/Lead Implementer, CCSP, vendor certifications (Palo Alto Networks PCNSE, Fortinet NSE 4+), and business continuity certifications (CBCP, ISO 22301) advantageous.

Responsabilités

• Leads security advisory engagements and cyber resilience assessments.
• Shapes cyber recovery architecture and recovery validation processes.
• Develops proposals with defined methodology, deliverables and acceptance criteria.
• Presents findings to CISO-level and board-level audiences.
• Supports regulatory baselines and security controls deployments.

Connaissances

Security architecture

Regulatory compliance

Threat assessment

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Formation

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

CISSP/CISM/CISA

CRISC/SABSA/ISO27001 certs (adv)

Outils

Palo Alto

Fortinet

Check Point

SIEM/SOAR

PAM/IAM

Description du poste

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The Security Consultant leads the practice’s cyber resilience and security advisory portfolio. The role shapes and delivers security assessments, cyber recovery and minimum viable company (MVC) advisory engagements, and security architecture workstreams within broader infrastructure programs, helping regulated clients withstand, respond to, and recover from destructive cyber events.

1.2. Key responsibilities

• Works on strategic engagements that ensure the efficient and effective reaction to security breaches to mitigate immediate and potential threats.
• Uses mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery approaches to minimize business disruptions and commercial consequences.
• Shapes and scopes security advisory opportunities, including cyber resilience assessments, minimum viable company definition, cyber recovery design, and security posture assessments.
• Develops proposals and statements of work with clearly defined methodology stages, deliverables, stakeholder models, and acceptance criteria.
• Leads security and resilience assessments using recognized frameworks (NIST CSF, CIS Controls, ISO/IEC 27001) and regulatory baselines (BNM RMiT, MAS TRM, NACSA/NCII requirements, PDPA).
• Conducts regular threat and vulnerability assessments and determines deviations from acceptable configurations or policies.
• Participates in the assessment of the level of risk and supports the development of appropriate mitigation countermeasures in operational and non-operational situations.
• Defines minimum viable company scope for clients by identifying critical business services, mapping supporting applications and infrastructure, and establishing recovery priorities and dependencies.
• Designs cyber recovery architectures, including isolated recovery environments, cleanroom recovery, immutable vaulting, and recovery validation processes.
• Leads data protection and resilience assessments (ransomware recovery readiness) and supports the design and build of disaster recovery sites and cyber resilience third sites.
• Develops business impact analyses (BIA), business continuity plans (BCP), disaster recovery plans (DRP), and cyber incident recovery plans (CIRP/CRP).
• Develops incident response and recovery playbooks and designs and facilitates tabletop exercises with client executive and technical teams.
• Participates in the implementation of policies, processes, and guidelines to ensure the standardization of security management throughout client organizations.
• Advises on security architecture within infrastructure programs, including network segmentation and micro segmentation, identity and privileged access management, endpoint and workload protection, and security monitoring integration.
• Presents security findings and recommendations to CISO-level and board-level audiences.

1.3. To thrive in this role, you need to have

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are a must, including confident presentation to IT management and C-level audiences
• Proven ability to gather business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Proven ability to translate technical requirements into a compelling solution proposal
• A solution-centric rather than product-centric mindset, recommending the approach that best meets the client’s requirements
• Strong document authoring capability, covering assessment reports, proposal documents, requirements documents, and solution specifications
• Proven ability to conduct workshops and stakeholder interviews, gather and structure information, and produce assessment reports and findings from raw data such as logs, configurations, and inventory
• Strong understanding of information technology and information security
• Solid understanding of security risks and preventative controls
• Excellent understanding of security operational processes and controls
• Good knowledge of security frameworks and standards such as NIST, ISO/IEC 27001, and CIS
• Good ability to assess and manage cybersecurity risks at both organisational and project levels
• Strong understanding of cyber resilience and recovery concepts, including business impact analysis, recovery objectives, immutability, air-gapped vaulting, and clean recovery
• Service consulting aptitude, focusing on the business, service, and sales aspects
• Ability to translate technical risk into business language and defensible recommendations
• Up-to-date knowledge of security threats, countermeasures, security tools, and network technologies
• High level of drive and the ability to work under pressure
• Ability to build and maintain cross-functional relationships with a variety of stakeholders
• Understanding of relevant laws, regulations, and compliance frameworks affecting regulated industries in ASEAN, including BNM RMiT, MAS TRM, and PDPA

1.4. Academic qualifications and certifications

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma, or equivalent, in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Industry relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CISA essential.
• CRISC, SABSA, ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor/Lead Implementer, CCSP, vendor certifications (Palo Alto Networks PCNSE, Fortinet NSE 4+), and business continuity certifications (CBCP, ISO 22301) advantageous.

The following experience is advantageous rather than mandatory:

• Demonstrable experience in the information security industry, with substantial experience in security consulting or advisory roles, ideally serving financial services or other regulated industries.
• Experience with security architecture design principles.
• Experience with industry compliance and standards such as ISO/IEC 27001, NIST, BNM RMiT, MAS TRM, and PDPA, including support for audit or regulator interactions.
• Experience leading security maturity or gap assessments and presenting findings to senior stakeholders.
• Experience with enterprise security technologies, including next-generation firewalls (Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Check Point), SIEM/SOAR, EDR/XDR, PAM/IAM, and data protection controls.

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than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as

established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each

year in R&D.

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