Kerja Sepenuh Masa, Team Lead - Cybersecurity Assurance - Application Security di Dialog Group Berhad Selangor - Maukerja

About the Role

Responsible for ensuring cybersecurity requirements are embedded across technology solutions, infrastructure, applications, and digital initiatives.

The role acts as a trusted advisor to project teams, application owners, infrastructure teams, and management by identifying security risks, reviewing solution designs, assessing vulnerabilities, and recommending appropriate remediation measures.

Also, serves as a key line of defence to ensure cybersecurity risks are identified early, addressed appropriately, and aligned with business, regulatory, and industry requirements.

Responsibilities

Application Security & Secure Development

• Review application designs, architectures, and technical implementations from a cybersecurity perspective.
• Ensure cybersecurity controls are adequately addressed during application development and enhancement projects.
• Promote secure-by-design and secure-by-default principles.
• Conduct security reviews of applications before production deployment.
• Collaborate with developers to remediate security weaknesses identified during development and testing.
• Review findings from testings (SAST - Static Application Security Testing, DAST - Dynamic Application Security Testing), penetration testing, and vulnerability assessments.
• Establish and improve Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) practices.

Security Architecture & Solution Assurance

• Participate in project reviews and provide cybersecurity recommendations.
• Review cloud, infrastructure, integration, and application architectures.
• Ensure security controls align with cybersecurity policies, standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Advise project teams on authentication, access control, data protection, encryption, logging, monitoring, and security best practices.
• Assess security implications of emerging technologies, including AI and SaaS solutions.

Vulnerability Management

• Review vulnerability assessment reports from internal and external parties.
• Risk-rank vulnerabilities based on severity, exploitability, business impact, and asset criticality.
• Ensure critical and high-risk vulnerabilities are prioritized and remediated within agreed timelines.
• Provide remediation guidance to infrastructure and application teams.
• Track remediation progress and escalate overdue critical findings.
• Perform trend analysis and identify recurring security weaknesses.

Security Risk & Assurance

• Conduct cybersecurity risk assessments for new systems, projects, vendors, and technology changes.
• Support third-party security assessments and due diligence activities.
• Review and validate effectiveness of security controls.
• Support audits, compliance reviews, and cybersecurity assessments.
• Contribute to policy, standards, and procedure improvements.

Cybersecurity Advisory

• Act as an internal cybersecurity consultant.
• Provide practical and risk-based guidance to stakeholders.
• Support infrastructure, networking, cloud, and application teams in addressing cybersecurity issues.
• Advise management on cybersecurity risks and treatment options.
• Translate technical risks into business impacts and recommendations.

Security Monitoring & Improvement

• Monitor emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and attack techniques.
• Review security incidents to identify lessons learned and systemic improvements.
• Recommend improvements to strengthen DIALOG's cybersecurity posture.
• Support cybersecurity awareness and capability-building initiatives

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or related field.
• Minimum 8-12 years of experience in cybersecurity, IT security, security architecture, application security, or related disciplines.
• Strong experience in: Application Security, Vulnerability Management, Security Architecture, Cloud Security, Risk Assessment, Penetration Testing Remediation and Secure Development Practices
• Experience reviewing technical solution architectures.
• Experience working with developers, infrastructure teams, vendors, and project teams.
• Experience managing security findings and remediation activities.