Associate Director, Managed Security Services (SOC)

Our Client is an established company in Singapore, who is seeking to recruit an Associate Director, Managed Security Services (SOC).

Responsibilities

• Lead the overall day-to-day work of the security operations center ensuring events and/or incidents are detected and responded to in adherence to established process as well as procedures.
• Institute strong governance to lead and direct the team with standard processes and workflows. Ensure that existing procedures are followed and that all procedures are documented in accordance with guidelines.
• Lead Security Operations Center (SOC) solutions including scope development and service delivery commitments.
• Identify and define service delivery risks and offer, own, and manage risk mitigation strategies. Identify chronic operational and security issues, and ensure they are managed appropriately.
• Provide overview of operational challenges, risks and opportunities to leadership team. Manage and escalate roadblocks that may jeopardize security monitoring operations, infrastructure, and SLAs.
• Escalate issues to leadership in a timely manner with appropriate information regarding risk, action times and root cause analysis.
• Play a significant role in long-term SOC strategy and planning, including initiatives geared toward operational efficiency.
• Collaboration within a matrixed organization to ensure timely, consistent, and high quality 24x7x365 service delivery.
• Forecasting operational capacity and building annual operating plan to keep up with the growth of the MSS business
• Team skills development, quality assessments, and implementation of continuous improvement measures that scale worldwide.
• Project leadership in the areas of security configuration management, threat detection, response automation, and correlation, and service delivery governance.
• Managing financial budget for the function
• Working with upper management and other peers for strategy development and execution planning
• Take a transformational and continuous improvement approach.
• Work under pressure with tight schedules and aggressive rollout plans

Skills for Success

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other relevant field of study
• Minimum 10 years of experience as in security roles.
• Minimum 5 years of practical experience managing security operations, SOCs or equivalent security programmes
• Experience in Enterprise security solution management, intrusion analysis, incident containment, and response
• Leadership Skills Strong leadership abilities to manage security teams effectively and efficiently.
• Communication Skills Excellent communication skills to interact with stakeholders, law enforcement agencies, and internal departments.
• Analytical Skills Ability to analyze security data, identify trends, and implement proactive security measures.
• Compliance Knowledge Understanding of security regulations, compliance requirements, and industry best practices.

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Applicants are invited to send in a MS Word resume to [email protected] stating position applying for/present/expected salaries and earliest available date.

We thank all applicants in advance and regret that only short listed candidates will be notified.