Security Operations & Incident Response Engineer

PANASONIC ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

PANASONIC ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD. is seeking an experienced Security Operations professional to support the regional SOC. The role focuses on detecting and investigating cybersecurity risks, coordinating incident response, and driving continuous improvement across regions.

You will work with SIEM, EDR, WAF, and other security tools, collaborating with cross-functional teams and managing major incidents, with after-hours support as required by the operating model.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Approximately 3–5 years of relevant experience in security operations, SOC, incident response, vulnerability management or infrastructure security.
• Practical experience with SIEM and security monitoring technologies. Microsoft Sentinel exposure is preferred; experience with equivalent platforms is relevant.
• Familiarity with technologies such as Microsoft Defender, EDR, WAF, IDS/IPS, IAM/PAM, CyberArk, DLP/CASB, vulnerability-management and EASM solutions.
• Understanding of common cyberattack techniques, alert triage, incident investigation, containment, recovery coordination and evidence handling.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyse alerts and cases from SOC, SIEM, EDR, identity-threat detection, endpoint security, IDS/IPS, WAF, email security and other integrated security technologies.
• Validate alerts, collect evidence, assess severity and business impact, and coordinate containment, recovery and follow-up with the SOC provider and relevant teams.
• Support major-incident coordination, including war-room activities, stakeholder updates, investigation records, root-cause analysis and lessons learned.
• Assign or confirm accountable owners, target dates and escalation paths for actionable incidents, vulnerabilities and security findings.
• Track remediation to evidence-based validation and closure; escalate as needed and ensure proper risk decisions.
• Coordinate vulnerability notices, assessment findings, penetration-test findings and urgent remediation follow-up across infrastructure, cloud, application and local IT teams.
• Support EASM operations, validate external exposures and unregistered assets, engage asset owners and track corrective actions to closure.
• Produce vulnerability and exposure trends, ageing views, recurring-risk themes and management reporting.
• Work with the SOC provider to improve detection use cases, alert quality, enrichment, correlation, ticket routing and response playbooks.
• Identify and implement automation opportunities for repetitive triage, evidence collection, notification, assignment, remediation tracking, validation and reporting.
• Measure automation outcomes such as workload reduction, response improvement, false-positive reduction and closure performance.
• Apply human oversight, authorization, auditability and rollback controls to AI-assisted or automated actions.
• Maintain SOPs, runbooks, RACI matrices, escalation procedures, contact lists, control evidence and reusable templates for consistent regional operations.
• Provide operational guidance, coaching and knowledge sharing to regional stakeholders and operating companies.
• Participate in security architecture and service reviews by providing operational risk, monitoring, response and supportability input; final approvals remain with the accountable governance authority.
• Prepare weekly, monthly and ad-hoc dashboards covering incidents, vulnerabilities, SLA/KPI performance, ageing, closure and improvement actions.
• Coordinate with SOC/MDR providers, security-tool vendors, infrastructure, cloud, application, Service Desk, local IT and management stakeholders.
• Monitor vendor service performance, challenge gaps and ensure agreed actions are tracked to completion.

Skills

Security operations

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Automation exposure

SOAR workflows

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

SIEM

EDR

WAF

CyberArk

PAM

DLP/CASB

Job description

PANASONIC ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD. is seeking an experienced Security Operations professional to support the regional SOC. The role focuses on detecting and investigating cybersecurity risks, coordinating incident response, and driving continuous improvement across regions.

You will work with SIEM, EDR, WAF, and other security tools, collaborating with cross-functional teams and managing major incidents, with after-hours support as required by the operating model.