Director, Global Threat Hunting

Role: Director - Global Threat Hunting

Location: Singapore

Perm/Contract/ Full-time/Part-time: Permanent

Hybrid/Remote: Hybrid

Who we are:

Robert Walters is the world's most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, outsourcing, and talent advisory services for businesses of all sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.

Our Outsourcing service delivers recruitment for some of the world's top employers, and we are currently recruiting on behalf of one our client which is the Fifth largest global bank globally by assets, with 2400 locations in over 50 markets. Our client has approximately 360 years of history. Its global network has over 180,000 employees. It was ranked as the fourth largest in the world.

Role:

Our client is seeking a Director - Global Threat Hunting in the Banking.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to join a global team, providing top-tier service to existing and prospective clients while expanding the business on a product and global level.

The successful candidate will be responsible for acquiring new clients, managing existing relationships, and contributing to the company's mission of becoming a Top Clearer worldwide in commodity markets.

Job Responsibilities:

The Director of Global Threat Hunting Centre is responsible for overseeing and managing the threat hunting, detection engineering and platform engineering teams to implement a top class threat hunting program for the Banking group globally. This role involves developing a global threat hunting strategy and roadmap, implementing hunting program and methodology, establishing detection and platform engineering to achieve the program objectives, and collaborating with global cybersecurity teams to build a robust and resilient cyber defence posture.

This role is required to work closely with Global SOC, Threat Intelligence and Incident Response operations to ensure effective response to global incidents, collaborate with technology Infrastructure stakeholders on the engineering front, and provide thought leadership on global initiatives such as unifying the threat detection framework and logging standards.

Threat Hunting and Detection Engineering

• Lead and manage the Global Threat Hunting Centre operations, ensuring threat hunting programs that are intel-led, continuous and effective to enable timely detection of security threats across the Bank.
• Implement detection-as-code as the core tenet of the Threat hunting program. Build up detection engineering capabilities with automated pipelines to accelerate and expand coverage of threat detection across the various IT assets and environments, both on-premise and on cloud.
• Design and implement a data, telemetry and log collection platform that will provide a unified global view and enable threat hunting to be carried out simultaneously across various regions in a quick and efficient manner.
• Manage and mentor a team of threat hunters, detection engineers and platform engineers, and establish talent development programs to strengthen the talent pipeline. Foster a collaborative and innovative team environment.
• Work with the Regional Leads to continuously refine and elevate the maturity of the Threat Hunting and Detection Engineering practices, such as introducing AI / ML to further enhance the hunting and detection capabilities.
• Provide executive-level reporting on the program maturity, hunting results and security posture to both Head Office and APAC management. Develop a set of global metrics and QA to measure program effectiveness and maturity.
• Participate in global cybersecurity governance and planning forums to influence the direction and maturity of the overall global cybersecurity program.
• Promote continuous education to ensure the team is equipped with knowledge of the latest techniques, tactics and procedures of cyber threats, and to elevate their skills and knowledge.
• Lead a Global team that span multiple time zones, jurisdictions and business environments.
• This role is crucial for maintaining the security and integrity of the Bank's information systems, and the ideal candidate should be a proactive leader, achievement-oriented, and experienced working in a global institution and across diverse culture.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 12 years in threat hunting, digital forensics and incident response, with experience in Threat Hunting frameworks such as PEAK and TAHITI.
• Experience with Sigma rules, SIEM, ELK and various data pipeline and storage architecture.
• Possess security certifications such as SANS Advanced Incident Response, Threat Hunting and Digital Forensics.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field.
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing a global team.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.

This position is being recruited on behalf of our client through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, acts as an employment business and agency, partnering with top organisations to help them find the best talent. We welcome applications from all candidates and are committed to providing equal opportunities.

Client promotes collaboration and aims to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential.

This advert is posted and reviewed by Resource Solutions India Private Limited, trading as Robert Walters.

As we are continuously hiring for all our clients in the region, we will retain your CV in our database for any other positions that may fit your profile. Therefore, please let us know if you are not agreeable to that.