SOC Analyst (Threat Hunter)

NCS is the leading technology services firm that operates across the Asia Pacific region in over 20 countries, providing consulting, digital services, technology solutions, and more.

We believe in harnessing the power of technology to achieve extraordinary things, creating lasting value and impact for our communities, partners, and people. Our diverse workforce of 12,000 has delivered large-scale, mission-critical, and multi-platform projects for governments and enterprises in Singapore and the APAC region.

We’re searching for a Security Analyst (Threat Hunter) to be part of our diverse team of talent here at NCS!

If you believe in going above and beyond, embodying excellence, and bringing people and technology together like never before, we would love to have a conversation with you!

What we seek to accomplish together!

• Proactively 'hunt' for potential malicious activity and incidents across the environment using advanced threat network and host-based tools adopting Mitre Attack Framework.
• Perform hunting for malicious activity across the network, endpoint, and Critical Assets.
• Create hunting hypothesis and perform IOCs & TTPs based threat hunting and share reports with the management weekly on the findings, misconfiguration, use case development and provide suggestions for counter measurement.
• Expertise in hunting, managing, and writing detections using logs from Endpoint Detect and Response solutions like Carbon Black EDR, CrowdStrike EDR & Cortex XDR etc.
• Research on different TTP's for ATP Threat groups which are used by attackers during the sophisticated Cyber-attacks.
• Collaborates with technical and threat intelligence team to provide indications and warnings and contributes to predictive analysis of malicious activity.
• Perform cyber security threat hunting & detection activities with specific focus on countermeasure Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs)
• Contribute to the tuning and development of security information and event monitoring systems (SIEM) use cases and other security control configurations to enhance threat detection capabilities.
• Familiarity with threat modelling, development of attack plans, performing manual & automated Ethical Hacking, & develop proof of concept exploits.
• Evaluates new security technologies and products and performs engineer-level work and analysis to determine if solutions should be pursued.

The Ideal Candidate should ...

• Contribute to securing the organization by enhancing technologies and processes.
• Evaluate security controls against standards, policies, and best practices.
• Improve technology management and perform regular security assessments.
• Build relationships with project and operational teams as needed.
• Exhibit strong technical skills and the capacity to learn new technologies.
• Understand security principles and key technologies, with a focus on sustainable solutions and risk mitigation.
• Analyze sophisticated threats, leveraging knowledge of the threat landscape and cybersecurity fundamentals.
• Utilize forensic analysis and incident response tools to identify and assess threats.
• Have experience in threat hunting, incident response, and familiarity with programming languages like Python and SQL, as well as reverse engineering skills.
• Communicate effectively with diverse groups, reporting key metrics and statuses promptly.
• Possess 2 years and more of highly relevant threat hunting experience.
• Have professional certifications such as GIAC Certified Incident Handler Certification (GCIH) or equivalent

About NCS Group

We aspire to create the extraordinary and impact millions of people every day.

We believe in building a talent-led delivery model to enable our best people to lead, and to support them with the right structure, processes, and tools to ensure that our clients are delivered top quality services.

We want to invest in you!

Great work is never done alone, which is why we believe in fostering a collaborative work environment where people with different expertise and talent can come together.

We provide opportunities for our people to grow within our organization with clearly defined career tracks and specializations, ensuring that our talent and people can continuously deliver new value for our clients.

We’re here to make the extraordinary happen.

Find out more at ncs.co and our LinkedIn career site.

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