Cybersecurity Specialist

Are you looking for a supportive and collaborative workplace with great benefits, strong culture, and clear career development? You've come to the right place.

Why choose Manulife?

• Competitive salary package
• HMO on the first day with free dependents
• Retirement benefits
• Merit Increase
• Performance Bonus
• Global network of industry experts
• Extensive training resource

Work Arrangement: Hybrid with 3x a week on-site schedule (9 hours a day)
Schedule: Night Shift

People Leader Role: No

Job Summary

Manulife is looking for a Cybersecurity Specialist with a passion for security policies and compliance standards to remediate security compliance issues.

The Cybersecurity Specialist will report to the Director of Control Management and Governance and help remediate security findings. The role will lead the corporate-wide risk management function, ensuring all controls are implemented and enforced. This is an opportunity to develop new skills, expertise, and approaches.

The successful candidate will ensure industry security best practices and methodologies are applied to our cloud and on-prem environments' design, deployment, and operation. This position identifies cybersecurity issues, improvement opportunities, and best practices to safeguard data and infrastructure from internal and external threats. This role requires a deep technical knowledge of security technologies and a solid understanding of information security and networking.

Minimum Requirements to Hire:

EDUCATION: A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT Security, or a related field or equivalent experience.

EXPERIENCE: At least one to three years of relevant experience

SCHEDULE: Amenability to work on night shift schedules, weekends, and Philippine holidays (when needed)

LOCATION: Amenability to work in U.P. Ayala Land Technohub, Quezon City

HYBRID WORK ARRANGEMENT: Amenability and readiness to work onsite and from home anytime (dependent on business need AND/OR current external environment/situation)

Minimum Skills to Hire: 

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT Security, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• IT Background is required. At least 1 to 3 years experience in IT security Operations, IT Operations, IT Networks/Infrastructure, and Information Security is preferred.
• Knowledge of Configuration Management (Technical Hardening Requirements (THR)) and other relevant network/infrastructure security standards.
• Knowledge of security assessment on Windows, Unix, Active Directory, and Azure cloud technologies
• Proficient in using security assessment tools, specifically Qualys and Prisma Cloud, and business/enterprise applications like ServiceNow, MS Sharepoint, etc.
• Experience in data management/visualization using Power BI.
• Passion in cybersecurity.
• Innovative problem-solving skills with the proven ability to exercise flexibility and judgment.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and be able to multitask.
• Ability to automate the data management and reporting process using scripting languages (PowerShell, Linux Scripting, DAX).

On the job you will:

• Act as a point of contact for the risk assessment, exception, and exemption process.
• Act as the technical escalation point of contact for all technologies, network security concerns, and other critical governance-related items.
• Fully understand all technologies' control procedures/requirements to effectively coordinate the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and Qualys/Prisma exemption requests with relevant stakeholders.
• Conducts review and assessment of network device vulnerabilities and coordinates with the stakeholders for remediation.
• Build partnerships with the risk management team and experts to ensure completion of technical hardening requirements (THR) mapping and other IT security standard delivery.
• Manage the Power BI Dashboard on Cloud Security Posture Assessment.  
• Troubleshoot Qualys/Prisma scanning issues and optimize scan performance.
• Automate the various reports and/or admin processes to improve operation efficiency.
• Coordinate with tower/immediate lead and other concerned units to assess and remediate identified vulnerabilities.
• Provide analysis of vulnerabilities to other team members to assist with overall vulnerability remediation efforts.
• Conduct research and attended training on common attack routes, new cyber security threats, trends, and technologies.

Our commitment to you:

• Our mission; to be a part of making Decisions Easier and Lives Better
• A leadership team dedicated to your growth and success 
• A bold ambition and set of goals to be a leader in driving transformation in our industry 
• Our best. Every day. 

This job description does not represent a comprehensive listing of job duties that are required of the employee performing this role. We reserve the right to change duties or assign additional duties at any time with or without notice.

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About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

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