Security Operations Center Analyst

We are seeking a Security Operations Center Analyst in Kuala Lumpur (Hybrid) to support security coverage aligned to Sydney business hours. You will monitor and triage alerts across on-prem and Amazon Web Services (AWS), investigate suspicious activity, escalate confirmed threats and help tune detections and SOAR playbooks.

This is a hands-on operations role in a growing team.

Responsibilities

Monitor SIEM and security tools for attacks, intrusions and suspicious activity across enterprise environments Triage alerts, confirm severity, identify false positives and escalate validated threats Run security investigations, analyze logs and gather evidence to support incident response Use SIEM and SOAR platforms to support monitoring, investigation and response workflows Monitor identity and access activity, including suspicious authentication and potential permission misuse Support threat hunting, threat intelligence and detection tuning as needed Produce investigation summaries and security reports for technical and non-technical stakeholders Contribute to day-to-day Security Operations Center coverage and handovers to maintain continuity Requirements Hands-on experience in a Security Operations Center, security monitoring or enterprise security operations environment Experience with alert monitoring, triage, investigation, false-positive identification and incident escalation SIEM experience with platforms such as Splunk, IBM QRadar, Arc.

Sight, Log. Rhythm, Elastic Stack (ELK) or Wazuh Knowledge of cybersecurity fundamentals including network security, firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), common attack techniques and detection methods Familiarity with Windows and Linux logs plus network device logging and security event analysis Understanding of endpoint security, identity and access monitoring, malware fundamentals and security hardening basics Clear documentation skills with the ability to communicate incidents and findings to technical stakeholders Shift flexibility to support coverage aligned to Sydney business hours.

Shift patterns may change based on operational needs Nice to have Experience with endpoint detection and response platforms such as Crowd. Strike Falcon Platform or equivalent Exposure to SOAR tools such as Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR and cloud security services such as AWS Guard. Duty Familiarity with Cloud Security Posture Management tools such as Wiz and email security tools such as Proofpoint