Position
Data Security Services team in Singapore is responsible for day-to-day operational services on the infrastructure of Europe (mainly France and UK) and Asia remotely from Singapore. France infrastructure represents approximately 80% of the worldwide production activities of the company in Singapore.
Team works in Asia and Europe time zones and this role will be aligned primarily to France, UK and SGP working hours. Flexible rotations are allowed based on the nature of duties.
The operational support of the team covers the following technical scope:
- Vulnerability Management Service
- Endpoint Security technologies – Anti-virus management, Host Intrusion Prevention System etc.
- Data Leak Prevention systems, Encryption Solutions: Disk Encryption, File and Folder encryption, Database Audit Monitoring solutions
- Phishing Prevention solutions.
Responsibilities
Vulnerability Management Specialist is an individual role within the Data Security Services team and will be responsible for owning the Vulnerability Management. The individual is supported by platform teams for remediation actions.
The position is pivotal for driving the process with various cross-functional (transverse) IT teams.
Person will be responsible for following (but not limited to) responsibilities in day-to-day work:
- Preparing the Vulnerability Management Plan and the executes plan through all the phases of Vulnerability Management Lifecycle.
- Ensures that the Vulnerability scans are scheduled, configured in tool and are executed as per the schedule. Any failure of scans is to be investigated and schedule to re-run;
- Conducts periodical discovery of IT Assets and ensures that identified assets are highlighted to CMDB owner for appropriate Asset tagging and also onboards the new asset in Vulnerability Management tool;
- Assess the identified vulnerabilities and study & understand the risk profile, impact as per environmental context;
- Participate and coordinate the discussions with Infrastructure and Application teams and advise them the relevance of vulnerability and help them understand the impact;
- Understand the false positives reported and the technical limitations of the environment and facilitate the process of Risk Acceptance.
- Person will be responsible to liaise with various stakeholders for proposing and maintaining the approvals for such cases;
- Collaborate with Infrastructure teams- Windows, Unix, Networks etc. for the remediation of the identified vulnerabilities.
- Maintain the Vulnerability Dashboard for the scope and submits reports both of Technical teams and Management Reporting;
- Organize work in order to achieve compliance to established KPIs for Vulnerability Management and proactively work towards achieving the same. Maintain periodical reporting on the progress;
- Escalate- discuss and consult- as required to next levels and Management in timely manner;
- Provide Specialist level for the Vulnerability Management service;
- Lead the Penetration testing remediation planning with cross functional teams;
- Conduct new threat exposure scanning across the asset scope and advise the applicability and lead remediation exercises with cross functional teams;
- Participate in meetings with various stake holders as per the schedules;
- Liaise with different teams in different geographical zones;
- Propose, plan and execute Service improvements initiatives;
- Adhere to different policies set out by the organization;
- Prepare and provide different reports (weekly/monthly/ad-hoc) to the Manager as necessary;
- Maintain appropriate knowledge required for successful and efficient delivery of the responsibilities;
- Keeping abreast of new threats and vulnerabilities and provide analysis as per applicability;
- Comply with all applicable legal, regulatory and internal Compliance requirements, including, but not limited to, the Singapore Compliance manual and Compliance policies and procedures as issued from time to time; Financial Security requirements, including, but not limited to, the prevention of Financial Crime and Fraud including reporting obligations to the Money Laundering Reporting Officer.
Qualifications and Profile
- 8 -10 years of IT experience with 4-7 years of IT Security experience and 4+ years of experience in managing Vulnerability Management process for an enterprise.
- Professional Certifications (highly preferred)
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- GIAC Enterprise Vulnerability Assessor (GEVA), or any other Vulnerability Management Certification
- CREST certification
- Working & hands-on experience in managing Vulnerability Management process;
- Strong technical understanding and experience assessing vulnerabilities and identifying weaknesses in multiple operating system platforms, networks, database, and application servers.
- Ability to assess vulnerabilities and prioritize remediation planning;
- Experience in working collaboratively with cross-functional/transverse IT teams in Production setup (Operations) mode;
- Ability to apply Risk based approach while working on assigned responsibilities;
- Must have working experience in administrating and operating Tenable (Nessus) Security Center vulnerability management tool for a Large enterprise level environment;
- Good understanding of Reporting needs at various levels of organization and ability to design, create and present the same;
- Hands-on experience of creating reports using various tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, Word in graphical formats, trending;
- Experience in working with any BI tools like Power BI etc. to prepare the dashboard;
- Knowledge of different domains of Information Security;
- Working experience in financial organization is highly preferred;
- Excellent in analytical, communication and documentation skills;
- Ability to organize work and be able to priories work as per the Operation’s needs;
- Must have strong understanding of ITIL processes and comfortable working in process-oriented environment;
- Ability to work independently and as well as a part of team and is able to work under minimal supervision;
- Should have time management skills and able to manage work in fast moving environment;
- Excellent written and oral English language skills. Knowledge of French language is preferred.
Technical skills
- Experience of running Vulnerability Management Service: Must have
- Hands-on knowledge of Tenable Security Center or any other vulnerability management tool: Must have
- Conducting Vulnerability Assessments: Must have
- Reporting and Documentation skills: Must have
- Fundamental understanding of Operating Systems fundamentals- Windows, Linux: Good to have
- PowerShell, bash based scripting knowledge: Good to have
- Threat Assessments: Good to have
General skills
- Ability to prioritize effectively: Critical
- Ability to work autonomously: Critical
- Ability to work successfully in a team: Critical
- Adaptability to changing environments: Critical
- Inter-personal skills: Critical
Language skills
- English: Critical
- French: Good to have
Work Schedule
- Required to work on Paris and/or New York and/or Asia time zone*, i.e. 2pm to 11pm/4pm to 1am (summer season) or 3pm to 12am/ 5pm to 2am (winter season), or in accordance to the planned time schedule as required. If necessary, you may also be required to start work earlier or to extend working hours.
- May be required to be available for on-call support during non-business hours and/or on weekends. Allowance is claimable for such hours.
Education Requirements
At least a Bachelor’s degree in any of these faculties:
- Computer Science
- Information Technology
- Programming & Systems Analysis
- Science (Computer Studies)
Next Step
Prepare your updated resume and expected package.
Simply click on 'Apply here' or email to [email protected] to drop your resume
All shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Prasant Sirohi
EA License Number: 91C2918
Registration Number: R22106307
