Security Engineer

Overview

Doherty Associates (DA) has delivered IT solutions for over 30 years to some of the world’s most prestigious and demanding clients. We focus on the professional and financial services sectors, including private equity, venture capital, and legal firms - including some of the UK’s top ten law firms. We are a Microsoft Gold Partner with four Solutions Partner Designations (including Modern Work), a Tier 1 Microsoft CSP relationship and are ISO27001 & ISO9001 accredited. We’re a pioneering and innovative organisation; we pride ourselves on our passion and expertise to deliver transformations and managed services to our customers. And it’s through this success that we are now looking to evolve our global managed services function with additional roles in our service desk across London and Kuala Lumpur.

About the Role

We are actively seeking a Security Engineer to become an essential member of our security operations team, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This role is crucial in managing security escalations and supporting our customer security services.

As a Security Engineer, you will offer vital technical consultation and support to our Managed Services Team. You will take charge of security ticket management, spearheading the handling, processes, and enhancements within the team. Your duties will also include conducting comprehensive investigations and analysis of cybersecurity incidents, as well as leading the response to these incidents in partnership with other internal and external teams, and customers. Following security incidents, you will carry out post-incident activities, including root cause analysis, reporting, and evaluating regulatory and compliance impacts. You will be vigilant in monitoring cybersecurity alerts, triaging, and scrutinizing alerts from platforms such as SIEM, MDR, EDR, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Collaborating with both the internal security team and external Security Operations Centres (SOC), you will develop and refine monitoring alerts and use cases. Moreover, you will undertake proactive security tasks, including assessments, audits, and testing to detect vulnerabilities and offer remediation recommendations. You will be accountable for identifying and addressing gaps within customer environments and proposing enhancements to their security posture. Keeping current with the latest threat landscape, adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), cybersecurity events, and best practices is essential for ongoing knowledge advancement.

Responsibilities

• Manage security tickets and drive improvements to processes within the security operations team.
• Conduct investigations and analysis of cybersecurity incidents; lead incident response with internal and external teams and customers.
• Perform post-incident activities (root cause analysis, reporting, regulatory / compliance impact assessment).
• Monitor and triage security alerts from platforms such as SIEM, MDR, EDR, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
• Collaborate with internal security teams and external SOCs to refine monitoring alerts and use cases.
• Undertake proactive security tasks, including assessments, audits, and testing to detect vulnerabilities and provide remediation recommendations.
• Identify gaps in customer environments and propose enhancements to security posture.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of threat landscape, TTPs, and best practices.

Requirements

Office Hours : Working hours are Monday to Friday, KL business hours with flexibility to overlap with the London office when needed. Overtime is available and paid for pre-arranged work.

You will be required to be on 24 / 7 standby (in a rota) for a maximum of 2 weeks per month should security-related escalations be required. Standby allowance and overtime are provided.

Location : Solaris Dutamas, Kuala Lumpur. Hybrid model with a minimum of 3 days in the office.

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Doherty Associates (DA) has delivered IT solutions for over 30 years to some of the world’s most prestigious and demanding clients. We focus on the professional and financial services sectors, including private equity, venture capital, and legal firms - including some of the UK’s top ten law firms. We are a Microsoft Gold Partner with four Solutions Partner Designations (including Modern Work), a Tier 1 Microsoft CSP relationship and are ISO27001 & ISO9001 accredited. DA operate a global managed services team with offices in both London (HQ) and Kuala Lumpur.

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