Senior Incident Response Specialist, Cyber Security-Malaysia

Role Mission

The Senior Analyst - Cyber Security Incident Response is responsible for monitoring, detecting, and analyzing cybersecurity incidents through the Security Operations Centre (SOC) platform. The role supports the end-to-end incident lifecycle — including triage, investigation, containment, and closure — ensuring timely response to security events and maintaining cyber resilience. This role acts as the Level 2 (L2) Incident Responder, bridging SOC analysts and Incident Response management by performing deep technical analysis and coordinating with internal teams for resolution.

Accountabilities:

• Perform end-to-end incident triage and investigation of security alerts escalated from L1 SOC analysts.
• Ensure timely incident analysis, containment, and escalation aligned with MTTD and MTTR goals.
• Support the SIEM platform (Elastic Stack) by fine-tuning existing rules and suggesting new detections.
• Conduct log analysis and correlation across multiple data sources (network, endpoint, and cloud).
• Create and maintain incident documentation, reports, and lessons learned.
• Support incident response playbook execution during containment and recovery phases.
• Collaborate with IT, network, and application teams for incident remediation and root cause analysis.
• Provide insights for use case improvements and participate in use case validation and testing.
• Escalate confirmed incidents to CSIRT / Assistant Manager - Incident Response for further action.
• Participate in post-incident reviews, contributing to process and detection improvements.
• Monitor alerts generated from the SOC/SIEM and perform initial to intermediate-level investigations.
• Review and validate security events from multiple log sources and identify legitimate threats.
• Perform deep-dive investigations for incidents involving malware, phishing, insider threats, and cloud breaches.
• Assist in detection rule creation and tuning under the guidance of senior incident responders.
• Use frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK for mapping and improving detection quality.
• Conduct threat hunting using Elastic Stack and related tools.
• Collaborate with MSSP, CSIRT, and IT infrastructure teams to ensure timely incident handling.
• Support incident response reporting, evidence collection, and documentation for compliance and audit.
• Contribute to automation opportunities in detection and response workflows.
• Participate in training sessions, simulations, and tabletop exercises to enhance readiness.
• Responsible for the log source onboarding and managing the continuous logs availability on the SIEM platform.

Requirements

• Monitor alerts generated from the SOC/SIEM and perform initial to intermediate-level investigations.
• Review and validate security events from multiple log sources and identify legitimate threats.
• Perform deep-dive investigations for incidents involving malware, phishing, insider threats, and cloud breaches.
• Assist in detection rule creation and tuning under the guidance of senior incident responders.
• Use frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK for mapping and improving detection quality.
• Conduct threat hunting using Elastic Stack and related tools.
• Collaborate with MSSP, CSIRT, and IT infrastructure teams to ensure timely incident handling.
• Support incident response reporting, evidence collection, and documentation for compliance and audit.
• Contribute to automation opportunities in detection and response workflows.
• Participate in training sessions, simulations, and tabletop exercises to enhance readiness.
• Responsible for the log source onboarding and managing the continuous logs availability on the SIEM platform.

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