Cloud Security Manager

Date:

7 Jul 2026

Location:

Petaling Jaya, MY

Company:

StarHub Ltd

Role Mission:

The Cloud Security Manager is responsible for leading and managing the security posture of the organization’s cloud environments. This role oversees cloud security architecture, governance, compliance, incident response, and cloud security operations to ensure secure design, implementation, and ongoing management of cloud workloads. The manager will work closely with cloud engineering, DevOps, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and application teams to embed security-by-design across all cloud deployments.

Accountabilities:

Cloud Security Governance & Policy

Establish, maintain, and enforce cloud security policies, standards, and governance frameworks to ensure secure cloud adoption across the organization.

Secure Cloud Architecture & Design Assurance

Review and approve cloud solution designs, ensuring secure-by-design principles, threat modeling, and compliance with best practices and reference architectures.

Identity & Access Management (IAM) Control

Own and govern cloud IAM strategy, enforcing least privilege, strong authentication, privileged access control, and periodic access reviews.

Cloud Security Operations & Monitoring

Oversee continuous monitoring of cloud environments, ensuring timely detection and remediation of misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and security threats.

Compliance, Audit & Risk Management

Ensure cloud environments meet regulatory, legal, and internal compliance requirements; manage risk assessments, audits, and cloud security reporting.

Incident Response & Forensics

Lead cloud security incident response, including investigation, containment, recovery, and root cause analysis for cloud-related security events.

Leadership, Stakeholder Engagement & Continuous Improvement

Provide cloud security expertise to stakeholders, lead security teams, manage security tools/vendors, and drive cloud security capability enhancements.

Responsibilities:

Cloud Security Governance & Strategy

Develop and maintain AWS cloud security policies, standards, and frameworks; lead security strategy aligned with business and regulatory requirements; enforce AWS Well-Architected, CIS, and Zero Trust principles.

Cloud Security Architecture & Engineering

Design, review, and approve secure AWS architectures; guide secure cloud-native implementations; govern IAM (RBAC, least privilege, automated remediation); oversee network security controls including WAF, Shield, and service mesh.

Cloud Security Operations, Monitoring & Incident Response

Manage continuous monitoring with AWS-native tools and SIEM; oversee vulnerability management and misconfiguration remediation; lead incident response including detection, investigation, containment, and recovery; automate security guardrails and remediation workflows.

Compliance, Risk Management & Audit Assurance

Ensure compliance with regulatory and internal requirements (SOC 2, GDPR, MAS TRM, PDPA); conduct cloud risk assessments and threat modeling; coordinate penetration testing; prepare documentation and evidence for audits.

Data Protection & Cloud Security Controls

Ensure effective protection of sensitive data through encryption, access governance, classification, and DLP controls; manage cloud data exposure risks and ensure secure storage and handling of information across AWS services.

Leadership, Collaboration & Security Culture

Serve as AWS cloud security SME; collaborate with Cloud, DevOps, Network, and Cybersecurity teams to embed security-by-design; mentor teams and promote a strong security culture through training and stakeholder engagement

Team Scope/ Stakeholders:

Reports to the Head of Cybersecurity :

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