Senior Cybersecurity Operations Specialist

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

Job summary

SCIENTE is seeking a Cybersecurity Operations Specialist to lead security operations, manage incident response, and provide governance across the organization. You will drive incident response playbooks, coordinate crisis management, and ensure rapid containment of high-severity security events.

You will oversee continuous monitoring, vulnerability and attack-surface management, and risk-informed security culture.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years in Cybersecurity Operations, SOC, or Incident Response.
• Proven leadership in high-severity security incidents and crisis management.
• Strong expertise in Incident Response, digital forensics, and malware analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead and standardise organization-wide incident response (IR), including IR playbooks, crisis command structures, and high-severity incident handling.
• Design and execute operational readiness initiatives such as tabletop exercises, chaos testing, and resilience validation.
• Oversee continuous security monitoring, asset visibility, and onboarding of systems to central monitoring platforms.
• Establish and govern vulnerability management and attack surface management across on-prem, cloud, and OT environments.
• Provide security governance leadership by embedding risk management into system lifecycles and enabling a risk-informed security culture.
• Educate and advise stakeholders on incident response, business continuity planning, and assumed-breach practices.

Skills

Cybersecurity Ops

Incident leadership

Incident Response

Digital forensics

Malware analysis

Hybrid environments security

SIEM/SOAR/XDR/EDR

Vulnerability mgmt & CVE/CVSS

MITRE ATT&CK mapping

Vulnerability & Attack Surface Mgmt

Cloud & Infra Monitoring

Governance & Communication

Tools

SIEM tools

XDR tools

Job description

We are seeking Cybersecurity Operations Specialist to lead the cybersecurity operations, manage the incident response, and provide security governance across the organization.

Mandatory Skill-set

• Must have 8-10 years of hands-on experience in Cybersecurity Operations, SOC, or Incident Response;
• Proven leadership in high-severity security incidents and crisis management;
• Must have strong expertise in Incident Response, digital forensics, and malware analysis;
• Experience securing hybrid environments (on-prem, cloud, and OT/ICS);
• Proficiency with SIEM, SOAR, XDR, and EDR tools for threat detection and response;
• Solid understanding of vulnerability management, CVE/CVSS, and MITRE ATT&CK mapping;
• Experience in Cybersecurity Operations & Incident Response;
• Must have handled Vulnerability & Attack Surface Management;
• Experience in Cloud, Infrastructure & Monitoring;
• Strong in Governance, Leadership & Communication.

Desired Skill-set

• Certifications: GCIH, GCFA, CHFI, CISSP.

Responsibilities

• Lead and standardise organization-wide incident response (IR), including IR playbooks, crisis command structures, and high-severity incident handling;
• Design and execute operational readiness initiatives such as tabletop exercises, chaos testing, and resilience validation;
• Oversee continuous security monitoring, asset visibility, and onboarding of systems to central monitoring platforms;
• Establish and govern vulnerability management and attack surface management across on-prem, cloud, and OT environments;
• Provide security governance leadership by embedding risk management into system lifecycles and enabling a risk-informed security culture;
• Educate and advise stakeholders on incident response, business continuity planning, and assumed-breach practices.

Confidentiality is assured, and only shortlisted candidates will be notified for interviews.