Senior Cyber Ops Specialist: Secure-by-Design & Red Team

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

Job summary

SCIENTE is seeking a Senior Cyber Ops Specialist to raise security standards and enable proactive cyber posture across agencies. The role emphasizes deep expertise in testing, secure design, and governance, with leadership in red team activities and secure DevOps integration.

You will build and enforce organization-wide testing frameworks, mentor teams, and drive continuous improvement in vulnerability management, threat detection, and secure software development practices.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering.
• 8 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience with deep offensive security and app security.
• Proven penetration testing across web apps, on-prem and cloud, and complex networks.
• Strong source code review to find logic, injection and cryptographic flaws.
• Experience identifying testing gaps and providing actionable feedback.
• Proficiency with enterprise security tools (SAST, DAST, SCA, VAPT) and MITRE ATT&CK.
• Experience in cloud and DevOps environments, including CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain organization-wide frameworks and SOPs for security testing (VAPT).
• Lead advanced operations, including Red Team exercises and adversary simulations.
• Establish secure coding standards and integrate security into DevOps pipelines (DevSecOps).
• Oversee source code analysis (SAST, SCA) and recommend tools to improve code quality.
• Monitor threats and trends to update testing standards and security practices.
• Advise senior stakeholders and project teams to foster a security-focused culture.

Skills

Security testing

Penetration testing

Code review

Secure-by-Design

DevSecOps

MITRE ATT&CK

SAST

DAST

SCA

Cloud & CI/CD

Communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering

Tools

SAST

DAST

SCA

VAPT

Job description

SCIENTE is seeking a Senior Cyber Ops Specialist to raise security standards and enable proactive cyber posture across agencies. The role emphasizes deep expertise in testing, secure design, and governance, with leadership in red team activities and secure DevOps integration.

You will build and enforce organization-wide testing frameworks, mentor teams, and drive continuous improvement in vulnerability management, threat detection, and secure software development practices.