Security Engineer

The NETS Group is a leading payments services group, enabling digital payments for merchants, consumers and banks across the entire payments value chain.

The Group operates Singapore’s national debit scheme enabling customers of DBS Bank/POSB, HSBC, Maybank, OCBC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and UOB to make payments using their ATM cards or mobile devices at more than 130,000 acceptance points in the country as well as online payments.

Position Summary

The Security Engineer plays a critical role in helping to design, implement and maintain various security tools that together form a layered defence against cyber threats.

The ideal candidate will work closely with security operations, IT, and risk teams to deploy and optimize security tools, develop policies, and improve detection and response capabilities

Key Responsibilities

• Implement security technologies not limited to SIEM, SOAR, EDR, XDR, Anti-Virus, Vulnerability Management, DLP, PAM, IAM, WAF, IDS/IPS.
• Implement native cloud security solutions and 3rd party security solutions in cloud environments.
• Manage & maintain the security tools ensuring they are hardened as per the security, regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Manage and maintain the technology lifecycle of the solutions to ensure they are running on approved stable versions.
• Manage incidents not limited to zero-day vulnerabilities, patching, misconfigurations with minimal impact to business.
• Troubleshoot implementational issues by working closely with cross functional teams and vendors.
• Perform periodic checks on the solutions to ensure they run optimally and plan for future state considering business growth.
• Conduct comprehensive UAT for the security solutions before rolling out to production environments.
• Partner with vendors to implement security solutions, driving projects from proof-of-concept (POC) to full deployment.
• Implement BAU changes on the tools as part of change management, problem management and incident management, adhering to ITSM processes.
• Continuously update the documentation to ensure the KOPs are available commensurate to daily activities.
• Deliver the assigned tasks as per plan by collaborating with key stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in security engineering, with proven expertise in implementing and managing security technologies, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, Anti-Virus, Vulnerability Management, DLP, PAM, IAM, WAF, and IDS/IPS.
• Strong understanding of information security principles and networking concepts, along with hands-on experience in Unix/Linux environments and scripting (e.g., shell scripting), with the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.
• Demonstrated experience in planning, implementing, and rolling out security solutions into production, with the ability to effectively manage risks and unforeseen challenges.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, demonstrating strong ownership, accountability, and a results-driven mindset.
• Relevant vendor and cloud security certifications, such as AWS Security Specialty (or equivalent), are required.

Network for Electronic Transfers (Singapore) Pte Ltd.