Senior Security Operations & Threat Hunting Engineer

Hytech; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Public transport access

Corporate insurance (dental, optical,

Gym and fitness claims

Training and development opportunities

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Hytech is a leading security-focused consultancy recruiting for a senior cybersecurity operations expert in Kuala Lumpur. The role involves implementing security tools, leading POC evaluations for new security products, and writing SOPs and playbooks to strengthen defenses.

You will investigate alerts across SIEM/XDR/EDR, perform root-cause analyses, and mitigate threats while producing actionable threat intelligence to inform proactive defenses.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in security operations, detection engineering, incident response or related fields.
• Hands-on with multiple OS platforms (Windows, Linux) and security tools.
• Familiar with MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001, NIST, CIS benchmarks and PCI DSS.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage security tools as required.
• Lead POC assessments for new security products.
• Write and enhance cybersecurity SOPs and playbooks.
• Investigate alerts end-to-end, perform root cause analysis, mitigate threats.
• Analyze threats and provide actionable threat intelligence.
• Conduct threat hunting periodically based on intelligence.
• Create and review use cases from threat intel.
• Perform Breach & Attack Simulation to identify gaps.

Skills

Penetration Testing

Threat Hunting

Incident Response

Threat Intelligence

Blue Team Operations

Log Analysis

Active Directory Assessment

Automation Scripting

Tools

SIEM (OpenSearch/OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, Wazuh, Splunk Free)

EDR/XDR

Firewall/WAF/IDS-IPS

pfSense / VPN

Job description

Hytech is a leading security-focused consultancy recruiting for a senior cybersecurity operations expert in Kuala Lumpur. The role involves implementing security tools, leading POC evaluations for new security products, and writing SOPs and playbooks to strengthen defenses.

You will investigate alerts across SIEM/XDR/EDR, perform root-cause analyses, and mitigate threats while producing actionable threat intelligence to inform proactive defenses.