Senior Cyber Incident Response Lead

Axonect; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Axiata Group is seeking an Incident Response Lead to orchestrate cyber incident detection, investigation, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident activities across the Axiata Cyber Fusion Center. You will coordinate with SOC, Threat Intelligence, engineering teams, and external partners to strengthen cyber resilience.

Lead incident response programs, develop playbooks, and drive improvements in detection, forensics, and hunting using MITRE ATT&CK.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security, Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• Master's degree or relevant advanced studies is an added advantage.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end cyber security incident management including detection, containment, eradication and recovery.
• Act as escalation point for high-severity incidents and coordinate response across OpCos and stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain incident response playbooks, runbooks, and SOPs.
• Conduct post-incident reviews, root cause analysis, and remediation tracking.

Skills

Incident response

Digital forensics

Threat hunting

MITRE ATT&CK

Scripting (Python/PowerShell)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security/Information Security/CS

Master's degree (advantage)

Tools

SIEM (Microsoft Sentinel/Splunk/QRadar)

EDR/XDR (CrowdStrike/Microsoft Defender)

SOAR

NDR

Threat Intelligence platforms

Cloud Security technologies

Job description

Axiata Group is seeking an Incident Response Lead to orchestrate cyber incident detection, investigation, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident activities across the Axiata Cyber Fusion Center. You will coordinate with SOC, Threat Intelligence, engineering teams, and external partners to strengthen cyber resilience.

Lead incident response programs, develop playbooks, and drive improvements in detection, forensics, and hunting using MITRE ATT&CK.