Senior Cybersecurity Threat & Cloud Security Analyst

PERSOL; Subang Jaya; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

PERSOL is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst to monitor, evaluate, and enhance the group’s IT security controls, policies, and configurations across on-premises and cloud environments. You will lead threat analysis, investigations, and vulnerability remediation to ensure compliance with security standards.

The role requires hands-on experience with AD/Azure Hybrid, Kubernetes, and multi-OS environments, plus strong penetration testing skills.

Qualifications

• Proven work experience as Information Security Analyst or similar role.
• Strong knowledge of AD, Azure Hybrid platforms and cloud architectures.
• Specialize in hardening of network, IT infrastructure and cloud app security including API gateway security.
• Knowledgeable in Kubernetes container orchestration system architecture.
• Proficient with Windows, Linux, and other OS.
• Experienced with penetration testing and techniques.
• Ability to identify and mitigate network vulnerabilities.
• Strong interpersonal, analytical and rationalizing skills.
• Resourceful, independent, assertive, result-oriented, disciplined and a team player.

Responsibilities

• Monitor Security Operations Center (SOC) alerts closely for any security issues.
• Ensure all tickets raised by SOC and CA internal IT Security are responded and closed within committed service level.
• Perform cyber threat analysis and investigation on any potential security breaches and related cybersecurity incidents.
• Perform and manage vulnerability assessments on various scanning tools and ensure all major alerts are remediated.
• Evaluate and score IT Security assessment feedbacks from internal and external parties.
• Review implementation design of all new and existing projects and applications and follow through with remediations.
• Evaluate and assess cloud application security across various setup and instances.
• Manage and monitor Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) tool in terms of endpoint compliance, alerts response, and policy configurations.
• Ensure endpoint devices compliance in terms of security and critical patches involving operating systems, standard and custom applications, and hardware firmware.
• Participate actively in penetrations and vulnerabilities assessment exercises performed by external vendors.

Skills

Information security experience

AD/Azure Hybrid

Cloud security

Network hardening

Kubernetes

Windows and Linux

Penetration testing

Vulnerability management

Analytical thinking

Team player

Job description

PERSOL is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst to monitor, evaluate, and enhance the group’s IT security controls, policies, and configurations across on-premises and cloud environments. You will lead threat analysis, investigations, and vulnerability remediation to ensure compliance with security standards.

The role requires hands-on experience with AD/Azure Hybrid, Kubernetes, and multi-OS environments, plus strong penetration testing skills.