Cybersecurity Remediation Engineer - Incident Response

IBM; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM is seeking a cybersecurity Remediation Engineer to join the CISO Remediation Team. You will contribute to and drive the technical resolution of security risk across IBM's enterprise, working at the intersection of security operations, engineering, and architecture.

Depending on engagement, you may remediate issues directly or guide fixes with engineering teams; this role requires adapting to fast-paced environments and communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• ~4-8 years of security engineering or related roles
• Experience supporting incident response or post-incident remediation
• Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and Kubernetes
• Experience using automation and AI to reduce mean time to remediation (MTTR)
• Familiarity with Agile development environments
• Foundational understanding of cybersecurity frameworks and regulations (NIST/ISO/PCI)
• Certifications are a plus but not required; hands-on experience is valued

Responsibilities

• Identify root causes and implement fixes to reduce recurrence
• Partner with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to embed security within existing practices
• Conduct security and risk assessments of applications, platforms, and infrastructure, including threat modeling and targeted technical review
• Apply security principles to protect systems and data, ensuring availability, authentication, authorization, confidentiality, and integrity
• Create technical documentation outlining remediation guidance and security best practices
• Develop or implement tools to support detection, prevention and analysis of security threats

Skills

Incident response experience

Security engineering

Cloud & container experience

Automation & AI remediation

Communication skills

Tools

IBM Cloud

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Job description

IBM is seeking a cybersecurity Remediation Engineer to join the CISO Remediation Team. You will contribute to and drive the technical resolution of security risk across IBM's enterprise, working at the intersection of security operations, engineering, and architecture.

Depending on engagement, you may remediate issues directly or guide fixes with engineering teams; this role requires adapting to fast-paced environments and communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.