Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

Salary: RM 8,000 – RM 11,000 per month

About the role

Senior Cybersecurity Analyst role reporting to the Group IT Security & Compliance Manager at a leading regional private healthcare group. The position involves monitoring, evaluating, and assessing the organisation’s IT security controls, policies, infrastructure, and configurations to ensure compliance with established security standards and requirements. You will also be responsible for managing cybersecurity alerts and threats through in-depth threat analysis and investigation.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor Security Operations Center (SOC) alerts closely for any security issues

• Ensure all tickets raised by SOC and CA internal IT Security are responded and closed within committed service level

• Perform cyber threat analysis and investigation on any potential security breaches and related cybersecurity incidents

• Perform and manage vulnerability assessments on various scanning tools and ensure all major alerts are remediated

• Evaluate and score IT Security assessment feedbacks from internal and external parties

• Review implementation design of all new and existing projects and applications and follow through with remediations

• Evaluate and assess cloud application security across various setup and instances

• Manage and monitor Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) tool in terms of endpoint compliance, alerts response, and policy configurations

• Ensure endpoint devices compliance in terms of security and critical patches involving operating systems, standard and custom applications, and hardware firmware

• Participate actively in penetrations and vulnerabilities assessment exercises performed by external vendors

About you

• Proven work experience as Information Security Analyst or similar role

• Knowledgeable in AD, Azure Hybrid platforms and various other public and private cloud architecture

• Specialize in hardening of network, IT infrastructure and cloud app security including API gateway security

• Knowledgeable in Kubernetes container orchestration system architecture

• Proficient with Windows, Linux, and other OS

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or related software

• Experienced with penetration testing and techniques

• Ability to identify and mitigate network vulnerabilities

• Strong interpersonal, analytical and rationalizing skills

• Resourceful, independent, assertive, result-oriented, disciplined and a team player