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Job Description

Role: Head of Cyber Defense Center (CDC) – Band 9(7 Years+)


Role Overview

end-to-end governance, delivery, and transformation

single point of accountability

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Leadership & Governance

  • Define and execute the

    CDC vision, operating model, and multi-year transformation roadmap

    , including adoption of

    GenAI and agentic AI

    for autonomous SOC capabilities
  • Lead governance forums with client stakeholders, ensuring alignment with

    business risk, compliance, and regulatory frameworks

  • Own and govern CDC

    SLA/KPI frameworks

    , including MTTD, MTTR, containment rate, false-positive reduction, and automation coverage

2. Service Delivery & Operations Oversight

  • Oversee

    24x7 CDC operations

    across SOC, Incident Response, Threat Hunting, Engineering, and Automation towers
  • Ensure seamless coordination between

    L1–L3 analysts, incident managers, and platform SMEs

  • Manage major incidents, escalations, RCA reviews, and continuous service improvement initiatives

3. People & Capability Management

  • Lead and scale a team of

    100+ security professionals

    , including:
  • L1 SOC Analysts
  • L2 Security Engineers (SOC, IR, Endpoint, Network, DLP, IAM)
  • L3 SMEs (Threat Hunting, IR, Engineering, AppSec, Data Protection)
  • Automation Engineers, Detection Content Developers, and GenAI Engineers
  • Drive

    talent development, cross-skilling, leadership pipeline, and succession planning

4. Technology & Platform Ownership

  • Oversee integration and optimization of

    Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR, Azure Logic Apps, Security Copilot, and AI agents

    within CDC workflows
  • Ensure

    platform health, telemetry coverage, detection efficacy, and response automation

    across SIEM, SOAR, EDR, DLP, and VM ecosystems

5. Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Report to the

    Account Delivery Partner / Executive Leadership

  • Interface with:
  • IT Operations and Infrastructure Service Delivery Leaders
  • Enterprise Incident Managers
  • Client

    CISOs, Risk Officers, and Security Leadership

  • Lead

    Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews (MBRs/QBRs)

    , presenting:
  • Threat landscape insights
  • SLA and operational performance
  • Automation maturity and transformation progress


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