Senior Manager, Cyber Architecture & Engineering

NCS is a leading technology services firm with presence in Asia Pacific and partners with governments and enterprises to advance communities through technology. Combining the experience and expertise of its 10,000-strong team across 61 specialisations, NCS provides differentiated and end-to-end technology services to clients with its NEXT capabilities of digital, cloud, platforms as well as core offerings in application, infrastructure, engineering and cyber security. NCS also believes in building a strong partner eco-system with leading technology players, research institutions and start-ups to support open innovation and co-creation. For more information, visit ncs.co. 

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Overview:

As part of NCS IT Cyber Security Architecture and Engineering team, you will champion the security design and build a secure enterprise, act as the subject matter expert to provide sound advice and conceptualize new security solutions to meet the business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implement Enterprise security architecture that meets business objectives.
• Build and implement enterprise security solutions to protect against advanced cyber security threats across the organization’s diverse environment.
• Operationalize Mitre Att&ck framework and embed it into security architecture and solution design.
• Be the security subject matter expert and collaborate with infrastructure, application, and cloud team to enhance, configure and support existing and new security solutions.
• Responsible for the maintenance and creation of enterprise security architecture, cyber engineering diagrams, and documentations.
• Drive enterprise security projects to completion within the stipulated timeline.
• Identify enterprise security gaps and provide recommendations of security controls.
• Engage and collaborate with security vendors to conduct security PoC.
• Responsible for the remediation of enterprise security solutions' issues.
• Be part of the cyber security team by providing stand-by support for critical security tools used by the cyber operations team.

The ideal candidate should possess:

• Degree/Diploma or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent.
• Minimally 12 years of experience in cyber security architecture and engineering.
• At least one security certification is preferred, such as CISSP, Certified Information Security Management (CISM), PMP or any SANS GIAC Security Certifications.
• In-depth understanding and experience of Windows and Linux OS.
• In-depth understanding and experience of Mitre Att&ck framework and operationalizing it.
• In-depth experience of Secure architecture design principles and secure by design principles.
• Ability to correlate enterprise risk with suitable administrative, or technical security controls
• In-depth knowledge or hands-on experiences in at least of the following 2 domains: -
  • Endpoint Extended Detection and Response (XDR) 
  • Security information and event management (SIEM)
  • Data Leakage Prevention (DLP)
  • Firewall and Intrusion detection and prevention system
  • Privileged Access Management
  • Infrastructure Hardening
• Experience with providing operations support on enterprise security tools.
• Experience in designing and implementing a secure infrastructure on major Cloud platform providers and knowledge of cloud security best practices and industry security requirements.
• Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision in an enterprise environment.
• Strong project management, problem-solving, oral and written communications skills.
• Ability to manage 3rd party vendor engagements and drive any issues to completion.
• Ability to collaborate with internal enterprise infrastructure or cloud engineers to deploy cyber security solutions.