Senior Security Engineer: Threat Hunting & SOC Lead

Noventiq Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Noventiq Malaysia is seeking a Senior Security Engineer (L3 SOC) to act as the highest technical escalation point for customer-facing security operations. You will perform advanced threat investigations, incident response, threat hunting, detection engineering, and security platform optimization.

The role focuses on complex investigations, customer consultation, security use case development, and enhancing monitoring platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Security Operations.
• 2+ years in SIEM engineering or threat hunting.
• Proven experience with large enterprise security environments.
• Experience in customer-facing consulting and incident response activities.

Responsibilities

• Perform advanced investigation and validation of security incidents escalated from L1/L2 teams.
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for major security incidents.
• Provide recommendations and remediation guidance to customers.
• Support incident coordination during high-severity security events.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting activities.
• Research emerging threats, attack techniques, and adversary TTPs.
• Develop hunting queries and methodologies using MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Design and develop SIEM detection rules and analytics.
• Improve alert quality through tuning and optimization.
• Create use cases, correlation rules, watchlists, and detection content.
• Validate data source coverage and logging requirements.
• Support deployment and optimization of Microsoft Sentinel and related security technologies.
• Assist with onboarding new log sources and integrations.
• Develop automation and response playbooks.
• Perform log analysis and data normalization activities.
• Participate in customer security reviews and technical workshops.
• Present investigation findings and technical recommendations.
• Act as trusted advisor for security monitoring improvements.
• Support onboarding of new customers and services.
• Review investigation quality and SOC processes.
• Mentor junior analysts and engineers.
• Develop SOPs, playbooks, and technical documentation.
• Share security knowledge across SOC teams.

Skills

Incident Response

Threat Hunting

Security Monitoring

Digital Forensics

Malware Analysis

Use Case Development

Threat Intelligence Integration

Log Analysis

Rule Development

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Defender XDR

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

KQL (Kusto Query Language)

Job description

Noventiq Malaysia is seeking a Senior Security Engineer (L3 SOC) to act as the highest technical escalation point for customer-facing security operations. You will perform advanced threat investigations, incident response, threat hunting, detection engineering, and security platform optimization.

The role focuses on complex investigations, customer consultation, security use case development, and enhancing monitoring platforms.