About the role

The role involves acting as a senior security advisor to bridge complex cybersecurity engineering with business delivery while overseeing high-severity incident responses. Additionally, the candidate will manage end-to-end technical security projects and lead cross-functional teams to ensure organizational security maturity.

What they look for

Cybersecurity Project Management Security Architecture Incident Response Cloud Security Risk Management Zero Trust NIST CSF ISO 27001 Threat Hunting SIEM EDR Digital Forensics Vendor Management Stakeholder Management Compliance

Requirements

Candidates must have at least 8 years of experience in information security with a proven track record in enterprise architecture and incident response. Proficiency in frameworks like NIST and ISO 27001, along with hands-on experience in cloud security and project management, is required.

Full description

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Overview

We are seeking an experienced and versatile Senior Security Advisor & Technical Project Manager to bridge the gap between complex cybersecurity engineering and high-impact business delivery.

In this dual-capability role, you will act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and clients—architecting resilient security postures, steering critical incident response scenarios, and leading end-to-end technical security projects. You aren’t just overseeing project schedules; you have the deep technical chops to evaluate architectures, challenge technical designs, and guide incident handling when high-severity threats emerge.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Security Advisory & Architecture

Security Maturity & Roadmaps: Evaluate organizational security maturity, compliance gaps and threat models to deliver actionable, business-aligned security roadmaps.

Architecture & Secure Design: Assess and guide secure architecture patterns across cloud, hybrid environments, zero-trust frameworks, network defense, and IAM systems.

Architecture Review Board (ARB) Alignment: Serve as the primary security engineering liaison to the ARB, ensuring proposed solutions align smoothly with enterprise architecture standards.

Solution Advisory: Provide hands-on security architecture guidance to project delivery teams from project inception through post-implementation review.

Incident Response, Cyber Resilience & Escalations

Major Incident Oversight: Act as the senior technical escalation lead for high-severity (P1/P2) security incidents, breach responses, threat hunting escalations, and operational outages.

Root-Cause Analysis (RCA): Direct structural RCAs following critical incidents and conduct analyses on recurring operational bottlenecks, legacy technical debt, and friction points.

Continuous Optimization: Direct remediation roadmaps to ensure long-term resilience and feed operational learnings back into delivery models to streamline engineering workflows.

Commercial & Procurement Ownership

RFP/RFI Technical Leadership: Drive technical requirements and security evaluations for RFIs/RFPs, working directly with Procurement to evaluate and select vendors, software, and third-party partners.

Vendor & Scope Management: Partner with business stakeholders and procurement to ensure vendor SOWs align with delivery outcomes, cost controls, and operational expectations.

Technical Project & Delivery Management

End-to-End Delivery: Scope, budget, resource, and manage complex cybersecurity projects (e.g., SIEM/SOAR deployments, Cloud Migrations, SOC transformations, Zero Trust implementations).

Cross-Functional Leadership: Direct cross-functional teams of security engineers, architects, developers, and third-party vendors.

Executive Stakeholder Management: Bridge technical and executive conversations by translating complex technical risks into clear, business-focused insights for C-level leadership.

Required Qualifications & Experience

Experience

8+ years in information security, with at least 3–5 years leading complex technical projects or consulting engagements.

Proven track record evaluating and advising on enterprise security architectures and cloud security designs.

Direct, hands-on experience in Incident Response (IR), threat analysis, or SOC operations.

Technical Proficiencies

Frameworks & Architecture: In-depth knowledge of Security Architecture principles (Zero Trust, NIST CSF, ISO 27001).

Incident Response & Forensics: Practical understanding of the IR lifecycle (NIST / SANS framework), SIEM/EDR logs, packet analysis, and digital forensics fundamentals.

Cloud & Modern Infrastructure: Hands-on familiarity with security controls in AWS, Azure, or GCP, as well as modern enterprise stack technologies (Container security, API security, CI/CD security).

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About Hong Leong Bank

We are a leading financial institution in Malaysia backed by a century of entrepreneurial heritage. Providing comprehensive financial services guided by a Digital-at-the-Core ethos has earned us industry recognition and accolades for our innovative approach in making banking simpler and more effortless for our customers. Our digital and physical offerings span across a vast nationwide network in Malaysia, strengthened with an expanding regional presence in Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, and China.

We seek to strike a balance between diversity, inclusion and merit to achieve our mission of infusing diversity in thinking and skillsets into our organisation. Candidates are assessed based on merit and potential, in line with our mission to attract and recruit the best talent available. Expanding on our “Digital at the Core” ethos, we are progressively digitising the employee journey and experience to provide a strong foundation for our people to drive life-long learning, achieve their career aspirations and grow talent from within our organisation.

Realise your full potential at Hong Leong Bank by applying now.