IT Security Head - Financial Services

Overview

Join a leading financial services organization. The hiring company is a leading financial services organization based in Makati.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end Security Operations function, including monitoring, threat detection, threat intelligence, and response.
• Manage and optimise the SOC (internal or outsourced), ensuring 24/7 coverage and effective escalation workflows.
• Oversee tuning and continuous improvement of SIEM, IDS/IPS, EDR/XDR, WAF, and other detection technologies.

• Incident Response & Threat Management
• Serve as incident commander for security events and coordinate cross-functional response.
• Conduct root cause analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery efforts.
• Build and maintain playbooks for high-severity incidents (e.g., account compromise, malware outbreak, DDoS, data exposure).

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