Full-timeTech & engineering· Posted 25 May

Senior Cybersecurity Operations Specialist

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Singapore

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Work mode: On-site
Experience: Experienced

About the role

This role sits within the Cyber Security Group at GovTech, supporting Ministry CISO teams across multiple public agencies. You will lead efforts to keep the Ministry Family ready for cyber threats by standardising incident response, overseeing monitoring, and driving resiliency testing. It suits an experienced cybersecurity operations professional who can guide agencies through high-pressure incidents and build stronger operational practices.

What you'll do

Establish and maintain Ministry-wide incident response playbooks for scenarios such as ransomware, data exfiltration, and cloud breaches.
Provide direct guidance and technical oversight to agencies during high and critical severity incidents, ensuring timely reporting and containment.

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Work with Agency CIOs and CISOs to set up clear command structures and roles for crisis decision-making.

Design and oversee tabletop exercises for stakeholders including system owners, SIROs, CISOs, and CIOs, and evaluate external vendors for these exercises.

Drive adoption of chaos testing across agencies to validate resiliency plans and uncover hidden failure points.

Assess operational readiness across the Ministry Family and lead initiatives to close gaps in incident management.

Ensure all Ministry systems are onboarded to central monitoring services and help system owners overcome onboarding challenges.

Partner with Agency CIOs to maintain an updated IT asset inventory.

Provide expert guidance for agencies with unique threat use cases or specialised systems such as OT/ICS, helping them build bespoke detection capabilities.

Establish standard operating procedures for vulnerability management across on-premises, cloud (GCC), and OT environments, including handling unpatched vulnerabilities.

Ensure agencies deploy adequate internal and external scanning tools, oversee finding prioritisation, and validate that patches are applied and effective.

Educate agency stakeholders on response and business continuity planning, and foster an assumed breach mindset among project owners and agency leaders.

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Location: Singapore.

Requirements

8 to 10 years of deep experience in cybersecurity operations, SOC management, or incident response
Proven track record leading or providing technical oversight in high-pressure, high-severity security incidents
Experience managing security operations across complex hybrid environments including on-premise, cloud, and OT
Mastery of incident response methodologies and strong understanding of digital forensics and malware analysis
Deep knowledge of the threat landscape and ability to map monitoring use cases to the MITRE ATT&CK framework
Deep understanding of the CVE system and CVSS scoring, plus knowledge of exploitation techniques and how vulnerabilities are weaponised

Benefits

Purposeful career contributing to Singapore's Smart Nation initiatives
Robust learning and development opportunities throughout the year

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