SOC Consultant: Cyber Defense & Incident Response

Deloitte Southeast Asia; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte Southeast Asia in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Cyber Security Operations Centre (SOC) Consultant to monitor, detect, investigate and respond to cyber threats across client environments. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to operate security processes and strengthen clients’ cyber resilience, deploying SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and other tools, and crafting detection rules and incident responses.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree in CS/IT, 3-5 years of hands-on experience, and strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information technology, or a related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in cyber security operations, security monitoring, incident response, or a related role.
• Good understanding of cyber security principles, common attack techniques, network and endpoint security, and incident response processes.
• Hands-on experience with one or more security technologies, such as SIEM, SOAR, EDR, NDR, IDS/IPS, firewalls, cloud security or threat intelligence platforms.
• Familiarity with security frameworks and knowledge bases such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST incident response guidance or MITRE ATT&CK is advantageous.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to work effectively in a client-facing environment.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and triage security alerts and events across networks, endpoints, cloud environments and business applications.
• Investigate potential security incidents, assess their impact and support root cause analysis.
• Support incident response activities, including containment, eradication, recovery and post-incident review.
• Operate and maintain cyber security technologies, including SIEM, SOAR, endpoint, network, cloud and threat intelligence tools.
• Develop and tune detection rules, use cases, playbooks and alerting logic to improve monitoring effectiveness.
• Perform threat analysis and correlate information from multiple sources to identify suspicious activity and emerging risks.
• Collaborate with client, IT and cyber security stakeholders to resolve incidents and improve operational security controls.
• Prepare and maintain incident records, operational reports, procedures and knowledge documentation.
• Recommend improvements to security monitoring, incident response processes and the overall cyber security posture.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Incident response

Threat analysis

Security monitoring

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information technology, or a related field

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

EDR

NDR

IDS/IPS

Firewalls

Cloud security

Threat intelligence platforms

Job description

Deloitte Southeast Asia in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Cyber Security Operations Centre (SOC) Consultant to monitor, detect, investigate and respond to cyber threats across client environments. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to operate security processes and strengthen clients’ cyber resilience, deploying SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and other tools, and crafting detection rules and incident responses.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree in CS/IT, 3-5 years of hands-on experience, and strong