VP, Network Security Engineer (TISO)

You'll be part of a team that's shaping the future of cybersecurity in the financial industry.

This role is responsible for the operation, engineering, service delivery, and continuous improvement of enterprise network security platforms, with a primary focus on Palo Alto technologies. The role focuses on maintaining secure and reliable network security services, ensuring platforms are operated in accordance with security-by-design principles, regulatory requirements, and enterprise standards.

About Ocbc

As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932.

How?

• By taking the time to truly understand people.
• From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.
• Today, we’re on a journey of transformation.
• Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation.
• But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.
• We invite you to build the bank of the future.
• Innovate the way we deliver financial services.
• Work in friendly, supportive teams.
• Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career.
• Your Opportunity Starts Here.
• Why Join Protecting our customers' assets and data is at the heart of everything we do at OCBC.
• As a Cyber Engineering - Risk professional, you'll play a critical role in safeguarding our systems and networks from cyber threats.
• How you succeed We are seeking an experienced Network Security Engineer to join the Technology Information Security Office (TISO) team.
• Manage platform health, software upgrades, patching, vulnerability remediation, and lifecycle management activities.
• Who we are As Singapore's longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932.

How?

• From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.
• Today, we're on a journey of transformation.
• Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation.
• But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia's leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.
• We invite you to build the bank of the future.
• Innovate the way we deliver financial services.

Responsibilities

• Implement and review VPN configurations, network segmentation controls, and security configurations in accordance with security standards.
• Act as an escalation point for complex network security incidents and service issues, performing root cause analysis and implementing sustainable remediation.
• Support implementation of new projects, application onboarding, infrastructure changes, and security enhancements involving firewall and network security technologies.
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures, engineering documentation, configuration standards, and knowledge repositories.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, and architecture teams to ensure security controls are effective and operationally sustainable.
• Drive service improvements, automation opportunities, and operational efficiency initiatives to reduce manual effort and improve service quality.
• Support audits, risk assessments, regulatory reviews, and compliance activities by providing evidence of effective control implementation and operation.

Requirements

• The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting day-to-day operations, driving platform improvements, troubleshooting complex issues, and contributing to the modernization of network security capabilities through automation and standardization.
• What you do Provide engineering and operational ownership for enterprise network security platforms, including Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW), Panorama, GlobalProtect, and associated security services.
• Perform day-to-day administration, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting of network security platforms to ensure service stability and availability.
• Who you are Minimum 5 to 8 years of experience in network security, firewall administration, or security engineering roles within enterprise environments.
• Strong hands-on experience operating and supporting Palo Alto security platforms.
• Experience troubleshooting enterprise network and security incidents in production environments.
• Experience supporting high-availability network security platforms and critical business services.
• Good understanding of security operations, incident management, change management, and problem management processes.
• Experience working in regulated environments, preferably within financial services or other critical industries.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Effective communicator with the ability to work across engineering, operations, and project teams.
• By taking the time to truly understand people.

Benefits

• Build lasting value in your community.
• Help people grow their assets, business, and investments.
• Take your learning as far as you can.
• Work in friendly, supportive teams.
• Build lasting value in your community.
• Help people grow their assets, business, and investments.
• Take your learning as far as you can.
• Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career.
• Your Opportunity Starts Here.
• Competitive base salary.
• A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle.
• Community initiatives.
• Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities.
• Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.