Senior Cyber Threat Hunter & Incident Response Lead

Nanyang Technological University; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Institute of Education (NIE) in Singapore invites applications for a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst (Incident Response & Threat Hunting) on a 3-year contract. The role leads end-to-end response efforts, coordinates with MSSP and internal teams, and drives proactive threat hunting across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments.

The ideal candidate holds a degree in a relevant field and 8+ years IT operations experience with strong hands-on expertise in SIEM, EDR, forensics, and

Qualifications

• University degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related discipline.
• 8+ years IT operations experience, with 4 years in incident response, threat hunting, or security investigations.
• Experience leading cybersecurity incident investigations across endpoints, networks, identities, cloud, and applications.
• Hands-on with SIEM, EDR, digital forensics, log analysis, threat detection, and security monitoring.
• Knowledge of cyber threat intelligence, attack techniques, incident handling, and investigation methodologies.
• Experience developing or improving detection use cases and incident response procedures.
• Familiarity with cloud security, identity security, and modern enterprise attack vectors.
• Experience coordinating with service providers, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, GCIA, CISSP, SC-200 or equivalent advantageous.
• Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills; passion for learning, security automation, and emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end incident response lifecycle from detection to recovery.
• Assess and triage incidents escalated by MSSP.
• Investigate across endpoint, identity, network, cloud, and applications.
• Coordinate incident response with internal teams, MSSP, vendors.
• Proactive threat hunting to identify emerging threats.
• Develop detection use cases and improve monitoring capabilities.
• Correlate threat intel with telemetry to identify risks.
• Maintain incident response playbooks and escalation workflows.
• Plan cyber incident response exercises and lessons learned.
• Support implementation and operationalisation of security tech and automation.

Skills

Incident response

Threat hunting

Security operations

Cybersecurity investigations

Threat intelligence

Cloud security

Identity security

Security monitoring

Detection use cases

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related discipline

Tools

SIEM

EDR

Digital forensics

Log analysis

Job description

The National Institute of Education (NIE) in Singapore invites applications for a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst (Incident Response & Threat Hunting) on a 3-year contract. The role leads end-to-end response efforts, coordinates with MSSP and internal teams, and drives proactive threat hunting across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments.

The ideal candidate holds a degree in a relevant field and 8+ years IT operations experience with strong hands-on expertise in SIEM, EDR, forensics, and