Manager, Security Automation & Engineering
Prudential plc2 days ago
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Maintain the availability, performance, functionality, and operational resilience of the Splunk security monitoring platform on a 24/7 basis.
- Monitor security platforms, data pipelines, and log ingestion processes, investigate issues, and restore services within required service levels.
- Identify, map, model, onboard, validate, and correlate event logs while resolving collection, parsing, normalization, enrichment, and correlation issues.
- Develop and enhance security monitoring use cases, correlation rules, dashboards, alerts, detective controls, and threat intelligence integrations.
- Develop scripts, automation, and technical solutions to improve the efficiency, consistency, and reliability of security operations.
- Support evaluation, proof of concept, implementation, and rollout of security technologies, including SOAR capabilities.
- Provide technical support and guidance to GSOC and LBU BISO teams and coordinate with infrastructure teams, application owners, security teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
- Manage service requests and tickets according to SLAs and align platform changes and deployments with change management processes.
- Maintain technical documentation, procedures, configuration records, support guides, and standard operating procedures.
- Analyze recurring incidents and operational issues, recommend improvements, and promote knowledge sharing and operational continuity.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
- Four to seven years of relevant experience in security engineering, platform engineering, systems integration, security operations, or a related technical field.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise log management or SIEM platforms, preferably Splunk.
- Experience interpreting, searching, manipulating, correlating, and tuning security event data in an enterprise log management platform.
- Experience with at least one scripting or automation language, such as Python, PowerShell, or Perl.
- Understanding of log collection, data parsing, normalization, event correlation, security monitoring, and incident detection concepts.
- Experience troubleshooting integrations between applications, infrastructure platforms, security tools, and data collection components.
- Familiarity with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, threat intelligence, and cloud security monitoring capabilities.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively with technical and non-technical stakeholders across business units and manage multiple operational priorities.
- Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Engineer, Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin, or other relevant cybersecurity, cloud, automation, or platform engineering certifications are advantageous.
Benefits
- Prudential provides equality of opportunity and benefits regardless of protected personal characteristics or employment status.
- Reasonable adjustments are available to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.
About Prudential plc
Prudential plc provides life and health insurance and asset management for consumers across Asia and Africa, including through its Eastspring Investments arm. The public company is headquartered in Hong Kong with dual primary listings in Hong Kong and London, and traces its origins to 1848 in the UK. Its products span protection, savings, and retirement, distributed via agents, bancassurance partners, and digital channels.