Principal Cybersecurity | e-Discovery | Singapore

Principal Cybersecurity | e-Discovery | Singapore

Date: 30 Sept 2025

Job Posting End Date: 14-Oct-2025;15:59:59GMT

Job Country: Singapore

Job Location/Region: Marina Bay

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

Come and be a part of this success.

Principal e-Discovery & Digital Investigations is the single point of contact and accountability for all electronic discovery (eDiscovery) and digital-forensic investigation services within BHP. The role owns the eDiscovery technology stack and associated governance, ensuring that electronic evidence is collected, preserved, processed, analysed, and presented in a defensible manner for approved corporate, legal, HR, ethics, and cyber-security investigations.

Based in Singapore and reporting to the Head of Cybersecurity Operations, the role provides expert technical leadership, maintains strict chain-of-custody controls, and guarantees that relevant information sources are available, accessible, and accessed only by authorised parties.

Service Delivery & Technical Leadership

• Own and manage the full eDiscovery & Investigation Support service (tools, architecture, licensing, roadmap, budget).
• Identify and maintain access to all evidence sources (SIEM, logs, email, endpoints, mobile, etc.).
• Automate data collection using forensic tools (e.g., RelativityOne, DTEX Pulse, MS Discovery) and scripting (Python/PowerShell).
• Design secure workflows for data imaging, hashing, storage, and chain-of-custody documentation.
• Lead complex investigations (data recovery, log analysis, malware reverse engineering, artefact reconstruction).
• Collaborate with Cyber Defence and SOC teams on incident forensics and insider threat investigations.
• Maintain playbooks, QA checklists, metrics, and drive continuous improvement.

Training & Capability Building

• Deliver targeted training for investigators, SOC analysts, and legal support teams.
• Mentor cybersecurity talent and foster collaboration across internal teams and vendors.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Advise Legal, HR, Ethics & Compliance, IAA, and external counsel on evidence strategy and risk.
• Translate technical findings into clear, business-relevant language.
• Present workshops and coach others on engagement and best practices.

Operational Excellence & Financial Management

• Standardize best practices to enhance safety, efficiency, and customer value, manage CAPEX/OPEX and meet financial performance requirements and apply business context and operating model knowledge to improve decision-making and value chain outcomes.

You will have:

• Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Management Information Systems
• Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE) with 10+ years combined experience in eDiscovery, digital forensics, incident response, or investigations within Mining, Resources, Banking, Telecommunications, or similarly regulated industries.
• Proven track record conducting forensically sound evidence collection across heterogeneous environments (cloud, on-prem, mobile).
• Deep hands-on expertise with Splunk, RelativityOne, DTEX Pulse, MS Discovery and scripting (Python, PowerShell, R).
• Demonstrated leadership of complex, multi-stakeholder investigations and testimony or report writing for legal proceedings.
• Excellent grasp of cybersecurity frameworks, data-protection regulations, and litigation-hold requirements.
• Exposure to BHP’s risk management processes and systems desirable
• Deep understanding and experience using tools to drive a culture of continuous improvement.

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks.

If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.

BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at

Enjoy a Monday to Friday schedule with options for hybrid work, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life effectively.

This role is based in Singapore. To find out more about our BHP global corporate office locations, please click here

We reserve the right to commence recruitment proceedings immediately.