Director, Global Threat Hunting

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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.

This role will be based in Singapore and report to the CISO of APAC.

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.

We regret to inform that only shortlisted applicants will be notified.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is an equal opportunity employer. We view our employees as our key assets as they are fundamental to our long-term growth and success. MUFG is committed to hiring based on merit and organsational fit, regardless of race, religion or gender.