Security Operations, Consultant

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

Job summary

AIA is seeking a Security Operations Manager to lead the SOC team in monitoring, incident response, and threat intelligence to strengthen the organisation's security posture. You will drive strategic initiatives and ensure compliance with security standards across the enterprise.

The role requires extensive experience in cyber security, incident management, and security operations, with a focus on cloud, network, and endpoint security.

Qualifications

• 12 years of tech experience with at least 7–10 years in cyber security in a regulated environment.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity incident management including identification, containment, response, recovery and reporting.
• Strong knowledge of Cloud, Cyber Monitoring, Vulnerability Management, and Cyber Threat Intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the SOC team in real-time monitoring of security events and alerts from SIEM, firewalls, and EDR.
• Oversee incident handling end-to-end and ensure actions meet SLAs.
• Improve incident response playbooks, triage, containment, and post-incident reviews.
• Lead security posture initiatives across cloud, network, endpoint, and server security.
• Collaborate with governance and compliance teams to address security gaps from audits.
• Drive security metrics and reporting for management attention.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Incident management

Cloud security

Threat intelligence

Vulnerability management

IAM governance

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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About the Role

To lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the Security Operations Center (SOC) team, ensuring the proactive identification, assessment, and mitigation of cyber threats across the organization. This encompasses overseeing security monitoring, incident response, threat intelligence analysis, and the continuous improvement of security posture. The Security Operations Manager is responsible for building and leading a high-performing team, driving strategic initiatives, and ensuring compliance with relevant security standards and regulations.

Security Threat Monitoring, Prevention, and Incident Response

• Lead and manage the SOC team in real-time monitoring of security events and alerts from various sources (e.g., SIEM, firewalls, endpoint detection and response).
• Maintain an oversight of all the alerts from MASNET, Group SOC and provide support to incident response personnel to ensure all actions & deliverables are achieved within SLAs
• Manage end-to-end incident handling & management according to established response processes and become subject matter expertise where established processes require enhancement
• Implement and enhance incident response playbooks and procedures to ensure timely and effective handling of security incidents, including: 1) Triage and initial assessment of security events; 2) Deep dive investigation and root cause analysis; 3) Containment, eradication, and recovery activities; 4) Post-incident review and lessons learned documentation.

Security Posture Management

• Maintain an oversight of related security posture baseline, in the area of cloud security, network security, endpoint security, and server security compliance. Additionally, this role is to lead and manage each SME in the related mentioned area of security domains.
• Ensure identified security vulnerabilities are remediated or mitigated, as per the vulnerability management processes. This is to ensure that overall organization security posture is managed properly according to the defined baselines.
• Continuously improve the organization's overall security posture through proactive security enhancements and automation.
• Lead discussion and remediation with relevant teams to resolve identified issues, as well as elaborating risk, severity, and mitigations.
• Working collaboratively with security governance and compliance team to identify and address security gaps raised from both external and internal audit.

Security Operations Metrics

• Provide an oversight and tracking of security operations metrics, including security baseline in the area of cloud security, network security, endpoint security, and server security compliance
• Lead various security operations reports development for the purpose of management attentions and highlight.

Security Operations Initiatives

• Drive security initiatives & projects and becoming local point of contact with Group for security project facilitation
• Provide direction, guidance, and collaborate with each SME of cloud security, network security, endpoint security, and server security compliance, for various security operations initiatives

Identity Access Management (IAM) Governance

• Manage end-to-end lifecycle of privilege ID, starting from it is created, vaulted, used, reviewed, and deleted.
• Lead the review of user access rights and privileges ID to identify and remediate any misconfigurations or unmanaged privileges ID.
• Oversee Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies and procedures into daily practice and operationalization.
• Lead IAM projects implementation / deployment / enhancement and liaise with Group Information Security.

Requirements

• University degree in one of the following or related disciplines (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, Information Systems)
• 12 years of Tech experience with at least 7-10 years of experience in cyber security area in a regulated environment (e.g. bank, insurance, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity incident management covering identification, containment, response, recovery and reporting
• Strong knowledge of Cloud, Cyber Monitoring, Vulnerability Management, and Cyber Threat Intelligence. An exposure to computer security forensic would be an advantage.
• Ability to take the lead and drive the investigation of complex security issu