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Technology & Digital

Security Operations Specialist I

Job ID: 87108
  • Beijing
  • Shanghai


Are you driven by the opportunity to tackle complex challenges and work alongside top leaders? Do you want to be part of a team that delivers outcomes that others simply can’t? If so, you’ve come to the right place.

Who You'll Work With

You’ll act as the point of contact in China Cybersecurity team to collaborate with Global Intelligent Threat Management to govern security operation posture of China IT assets.
You’ll partner with local product and global technology teams to remediate issues been identified and response incidents.

Your impact within our firm

You’ll drive the development and maturation of the local security operations capability such as developing and maturing monitoring and detection capabilities, technology implementations, process improvements, remediations, incident response management, facilitation of SLA’s/OLA’s keeping regulatory and compliance requirement.  
You’ll focus on China core technology platform with expectation to extend to all technology assets in China down the road.
You’ll manage security operation tasks like, to prioritize security operations activities such as assume the incident manager role for high severity incidents, co-lead critical forensics investigations, co-lead the resolution of technical issues with critical service impact, co-lead the evaluation, implementation and operationalization of new technologies and tools, monitor security alerts, and respond to high-risk ones, and manage vulnerabilities identified by security tools. You'll be the first point of contact for zero days and work with local IT team for mitigation and train local wider IT community in security skills and in handling operation duties.
In this role, you will contribute technical and functional thought leadership to the development of China security operation roadmap.

Your qualifications and skills

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree preferred in IT/computer science, cyber security, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of working in information security and cybersecurity role, combined with experience and technical training or academic training in two or more of the following security domain network investigations, OSINT, threat intelligence, security engineering, penetration testing, digital forensics, malware analysis, incident response, and vulnerability management
  • Experience of security operation technologies and products, e.g., security information event management (SIEM), endpoint protection
  • Security experience with log analysis and cloud computing technologies and infrastructure, such as AWS, Azure
  • Required security certifications from organizations like GIAC, ISC2, ISACA, or equivalent work experience will be preferred
  • Expertise to develop and manage processes, manage SOPs, to drive process adherence by teams, with continuous improvement
  • Work for one or more MMC, with at least 3 years in Mainland China
  • Highly collaborative, able to work with diverse teams in different functions and regions
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate security and risk-related concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Fluent in English and Mandarin
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