Cyber Threat Analyst (L1)

BCS is NETS’ wholly owned subsidiary, and is an entity within the NETS Group. It manages and operates clearing and payment infrastructure for the Singapore Automated Clearing House, including Fast And Secure Transfers (FAST), Inter-bank GIRO (IBG), Cheque Truncation System (CTS), and provides services for PayNow and SGQR Central Repository.

About BCS: 

BCS is NETS’ wholly owned subsidiary and is an entity within the NETS Group. It manages and operates clearing and payment infrastructure for the Singapore Automated Clearing House, including Fast And Secure Transfers (FAST), Inter-bank GIRO (IBG), Cheque Truncation System (CTS), and provides services for PayNow and SGQR Central Repository.

Team and Position Summary: 

The IT Security Team at BCS ensures the security, availability and resilience of BCS systems, protecting data and mitigating emerging cyber threats in alignment with regulatory requirements.

The Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) unit is a key function within IT Security, providing 24/7 monitoring, threat detection, and incident response to safeguard BCS’ critical assets.

As a Cyber Threat (SOC) Analyst, you are required to use data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools such as intrusion detection system alerts, firewall and network traffic logs, and host system logs to analyse events that occur within the Company’s environment.  You are also required to perform 24x7 monitoring on both internal and external sources to maintain current threat condition and determine which security issues may have an impact on the Company and provide accurate evaluation of the incident for escalation.

Responsiblities:

• Responsible for round-the-clock surveillance of the Company's information assets using various cyber defense tools to monitor internal and external sources.


• Provide timely detection, identification and alerts of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities, and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities.


• Use cyber defense tools for continuous monitoring and analysis of system activities to identify malicious activity.


• Analyse and respond to threats, software, and hardware vulnerabilities.


• Develop scripts, fine-tuning SIEM rules and solutions to automate the triage and analysis process.


• Provide incident response (IR) support when required.


• Produce actionable cyber threat intel from various threat intelligence sources, both open and commercial sources.


• Actively hunt for indicators of compromise (IOCs) and threat actor groups and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) in the environment.

Education and Experience

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Security related fields.


• At least 2 years of experience working in a Security Operation Centre (SOC) or Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT/CIRT).

Skills and Knowledge

• Strong ability to interpret the information collected by network tools (e.g., ping, traceroute, nslookup).


• Security certifications (e.g. GSEC, GCIH, GCIA, GCTI, GCFA, GCFE, GNFA) and scripting capabilities (i.e. Python, Bash or PowerShell) are a plus.


• Working experience with OWASP Top 10, CVSS, MITRE ATT&CK framework, Cyber Kill Chain and DevSecOps strongly preferred.


• Good knowledge of different types of network communication (e.g., Local Area Network, Wide Area Network, Metropolitan Area Network, Wireless Wide Area Network, Wireless local Area Network).


• Good knowledge of incident response and handling methodologies.


• Able to work 12-hours shift but shift patterns may change according to business needs.

Banking Computer Services Pte Ltd (a subsidiary of Network for Electronic Transfers (Singapore) Pte Ltd)