Senior IT Security Specialist, Security Assurance

Location: Selangor

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Leadership and Strategic Oversight

· Mentor a team of IT Security Assurance

· Assist section head to define and maintain the security advisory and risk assessment framework aligned with corporate cybersecurity strategy.

System Hardening and Configuration Compliance

· Review and validate operating system hardening configurations for Windows and Linux servers and others as listed in List of Technologies.

· Assess database security configurations and hardening controls for enterprise databases.

· Validate application security configurations and adherence to secure configuration standards.

· Review network device hardening, including firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers, and web application firewalls.

· Assess cloud security configurations and ensure compliance with approved cloud security baselines like Dockers,S3 Bucket , AzureDocDB and others.

· Verify compliance with hardening standards, benchmarks, and security best practices.

· Conduct periodic hardening and Adhoc QA scan and identify configuration weaknesses.

· Ensure security patches and configuration updates are implemented according to organizational requirements.

· Report significant risks and mitigation progress to senior management and governance committees.

· To align and execute IT security risk assessment according to Group Risk IT risk assessment methodology

ISO 27001 Certification and ISMS Management

· Lead the ISO 27001 certification and maintenance process, ensuring continuous compliance of the Information Security Management System (ISMS).

· Coordinate internal and external audits, managing relationships with auditors and certification bodies.

· Ensure risk assessments, Statement of Applicability (SoA), and ISMS documentation remain current and aligned with evolving business and regulatory requirements.

· Track and manage audit nonconformities, corrective action plans, and improvement initiatives.

Security Assurance

· Conduct security risk assessments and identify security gaps, vulnerabilities, and control deficiencies.

· Validate implementation of security controls, including authentication, authorization, logging, monitoring, and encryption.

· Support security governance initiatives and provide recommendations to mitigate identified risks.

· Review and track security findings, risk exceptions, and remediation activities.

· Provide security assurance and approval prior to production deployment.

· Collaborate with project teams, infrastructure teams, developers, and security stakeholders to ensure security requirements are addressed.

Mobile Apps Security

· Perform security assessments of Android and iOS mobile applications.

· Coordinate and review third-party risk assessments and recommend mobile configuration.

Operational Excellence

• Monitor performance, completeness and effectiveness of all managed security tools and controls.
• Implement automation and process improvement to reduce operational overhead
• Define KPIs and SLAs for tool uptime, incident response and compliance posture.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

· Ensure all security controls meet internal and external regulatory requirements.

· Own the documentation of policies, procedures, operation manual and security standards related to managed systems

· Assist internal and external audits for the security technologies under this section.

· Drive remediation plans for audit findings and ensure timely closure.