Senior Security Operations Engineer - Incident Response Leader

Doherty IT Solutions Sdn. Bhd.; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Day off on your birthday

Company-funded training and certs

Hybrid working model

Medical benefits

Parking (claimable)

Job summary

Doherty Associates (DA) is expanding its global Managed Services in Kuala Lumpur and seeks a Senior Security Engineer to investigate and resolve complex security incidents, manage vulnerabilities, and improve security postures for customer environments.

You will act as a senior technical escalation point across Defender, MDR/EDR/XDR, SIEM, and related security platforms, while supporting a strategic Enterprise customer with continuity and escalation coverage.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in security operations, incident response, and vulnerability remediation.
• Hands-on with MDR/EDR/XDR, SIEM, vulnerability management, identity security, email security, firewalls, and endpoint protection.
• Experience with Microsoft Defender suite and cloud security technologies.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, CIS Controls, and NIST CSF.

Responsibilities

• Act as a senior escalation point for complex security incidents, vulnerabilities, and technical security issues.
• Manage security tickets, escalations, and ensure timely investigations.
• Investigate alerts across SIEM, MDR, EDR/XDR, Defender, identity, endpoint, email, network and cloud security platforms.
• Lead incident response activities including containment, remediation, and recovery.
• Perform post-incident activities: root cause analysis, reporting, preventative actions, and regulatory/compliance assessments.
• Own vulnerability remediation prioritised by severity and business risk.
• Coordinate mitigation with internal teams and external SOC/MDR providers.
• Conduct proactive security reviews, vulnerability analyses, and improvement recommendations.
• Stay updated on threats and translate into customer actions.

Skills

Senior security engineering

Security incidents handling

MDR/EDR/XDR

SIEM

Vulnerability management

Identity security

Firewall security

Microsoft Defender suite

Microsoft Entra ID

Azure security

Tools

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Defender for Office 365

Defender for Identity

Defender for Cloud Apps

Defender for Cloud

Microsoft Sentinel

Huntress

Splunk

Fortinet/FortiGate

Job description

Doherty Associates (DA) is expanding its global Managed Services in Kuala Lumpur and seeks a Senior Security Engineer to investigate and resolve complex security incidents, manage vulnerabilities, and improve security postures for customer environments.

You will act as a senior technical escalation point across Defender, MDR/EDR/XDR, SIEM, and related security platforms, while supporting a strategic Enterprise customer with continuity and escalation coverage.