This role is for one of our clients
Industry: Technology, Information and Media
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Min Experience: 10 years
Location: Hyderabad
JobType: full-time
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Requirements
What You'll Do:
- Lead, recruit, mentor, and grow teams in security engineering and operations that support cybersecurity tools and platforms
- Take full responsibility for the delivery and operational performance of security products and services, ensuring their reliability, effectiveness, and security
- Collaborate closely with Principal Engineers and Architects to convert technical strategies into actionable roadmaps
- Promote operational excellence throughout cybersecurity tooling, encompassing zero trust, micro-segmentation, WAF, and firewall solutions
- Define and manage cyber tooling operations and best practices, including SLAs, incident management, change management, and conducting postmortems
- Supervise architecture and design reviews for security tools to guarantee secure-by-design implementations across platforms
- Lead the integration of AI and ML within security tooling automation, addressing governance, risk management, compliance, and conformance
- Establish and enforce cloud platform standards on AWS and Azure, covering architecture, IAM, cost optimization, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Monitor and report on key performance indicators related to service, delivery, reliability, and security with openness and accountability
- Work jointly with product, cybersecurity, cloud, and compliance teams to ensure engineering solutions meet business objectives
- Cultivate a culture centered on operational engineering excellence, accountability, and continuous process improvement
What You'll Bring:
- Over 5 years of professional experience in cybersecurity engineering, software engineering, or platform engineering roles
- At least 3 years of leadership experience managing and scaling technical teams
- Proven expertise in cybersecurity engineering design and operations, including team management
- Solid knowledge of cybersecurity domains, with a focus on identity management
Must Have Skills:
- Leadership and team development capabilities: ability to build, mentor, and develop high-performing cybersecurity teams
- Experience overseeing or supervising teams of 10-15 or more security engineers in both technical and operational capacities
- In-depth understanding of zero trust technologies, covering authentication, segmentation, security protocols, network operations, traffic and flow analysis, WAF, firewall, and segmentation
- Proven accountability for delivery, reliability, and security outcomes, ensuring platform stability and a strong security posture
- Experience with cybersecurity platform development and automation, leading teams that deliver security automation across key areas
- Strong skills in cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management, working effectively with engineering, security, and business teams
Nice To Have:
- Experience leading security automation initiatives or SOAR platform teams
- Familiarity with AI/ML governance as applied to security systems
- Background working within regulated or large-scale enterprise environments
Must-have skills
Cybersecurity, Team Building
Good-to-have skills
Zero trust architecture
