VP2, Head of Security Surveillance, IS

VP2, Head of Security Surveillance, IS

Posting Date : 7 Jun 2025 Location :

Kuala Lumpur (City Area), Wilayah Persekutuan, MY, 50350

Company : United Overseas Bank (Malaysia) Bhd

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values – Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

About the Department

Job Responsibilities

Manage a team to oversee the administration of security operation and incident response.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing day-day security operations during business hours and leverage on GSOC team for the 24 / 7 internal monitoring and MSSP team for 24 / 7 perimeter monitoring.
• Acts as a team leader providing guidance to the Incident Handlers and Security Analysts and sets goals and assists the team in accomplishing those goals.
• Manage all aspects of cyber incident response; initiation, identification, containment, escalation, reporting, communication, recovery, forensic and post mortem.
• Act as point of contact for all cyber security incident escalations from Group SOC and internal teams, thereby act as incident manager to resolve the escalation / incident by coordinating with relevant stakeholders within agreed SLA.
• Prepare various monthly reporting on SOC / incident monitoring and present it to stakeholders and senior management.
• Actively research and stay informed of current events in the security industry including the latest exploits and threats as well as preventative measures, remediation, and restoration techniques, and work with team to perform proactive threat hunting in bank environments.
• Develops a procedural set of responses for cyber security problems. Maintaining and creating new playbooks for the incident response team to use as new threats emerge.
• Closely monitor security tools (i.e. IPS, SIEM, VA scan, DLP, AV, ATP, XDR) for threat alerts and timely attend to it.
• Manage MSSP monitoring, outsourcing arrangement and renewals.
• Identifies security flaws and vulnerabilities and communicates those effectively within the organization.
• Collate and provide evidence / submission requested by various party (risk management / auditor / regulator) to confirm the security policies, processes, guidelines, controls are followed / implemented accordingly
• Assist Security Engineering team to support security tools when is required

Job Requirements

o Network Concepts and Security, Encryption / Authentication fundamentals, Access Management, Application Security, Platform (Windows. UNIX / Linux) Security, Database Security

o Hands-on experience in various security tools (e.g. SIEM, IPS, Firewall, Vulnerability scanner tools, APT , XDR , NDR and forensic tools)