Director

Role: Director - Ntwk & Info Sec

Location: Chennai, Hyderabad

Experience: 18 years-22 years

You will lead a team of cybersecurity engineers with both application development and network & infrastructure background, threat intelligence analysts and risk management personnel who work closely with our Chief Information Security Office (CISO), Global Network and Technology (GN&T) teams to align common technologies and practices that fortify our applications, systems, IT network and infrastructure. To be successful in this role, the leader must have a keen understanding of the evolving cyber landscape, inspire creativity and the ability to both encourage and empower teams to excel in this mission.

Network & Infrastructure Security Governance

• Identify, implement and operationalize metrics, dashboards, scorecards, and tracking to consistently measure the current state of cybersecurity across Network & Infrastructure, leveraging industry best practices and standards.
• Ensure effectiveness and coverage of the Security Policies and Controls of Network & Infrastructure, prioritizing risk level.
• Instill ownership and accountability for security-based metrics and drive increased maturity, visibility, and subject-matter expertise for all segments.
• Develop action plans jointly with all stakeholders to remediate deviations, providing necessary support to close on all key items.
• Champion a highly collaborative work model with an aptitude of building and maintaining relationships across different teams at multiple senior levels, internally and externally.
• Develop awareness, training & compliance programs focused on Network & Infrastructure Cyber Security practices, leveraging Security Development program.
• Ensure Security posture of Network & Infrastructure, e.g., access management, vulnerabilities remediation, etc.
• Coordinate necessary activities with our CISO Cyber Security organization: pen testing, incident response, data collection, etc.

Application Security & Risk Management

• Drive automation and orchestration of all security tools for visibility and prevention.
• Interpret the Information Technology threat landscape, security industry best practices, industry threat vectors, new technologies impacting security operations, etc.
• Technical expert in business applications, IT infrastructure and architecture - Defense in Depth Architecture and Practices.
• Experience implementing and monitoring security controls, vulnerability management, penetration testing, and identity/access management best practices.
• Track record with leading high performance operational teams.
• Background with different cloud computing platforms and the cloud security framework.
• Manage the budget for security testing, operational and monitoring tools expenses.
• Recruit, train, and lead security operations team members.
• Create and communicate security operations metrics, incidents, investigations, etc.
• Determine SLAs for detecting issues internally and with our external partners.
• Assist in Crisis Management, Ransomware Recovery and Business Continuity planning.
• Prepare reports and make presentations on internal investigations, losses, or violations of regulations, policies, and procedures.
• In partnership with the CISO team, identify, investigate and resolve global security breaches/incidents.

Security Automation Platforms

• Develop and maintain IT Applications, Network & Infrastructure Security reporting dashboards, scorecards and maturity models used to measure our Cyber practice, with a focus on data integrity, working with the SRE teams.
• Identify, build and maintain the automation platforms supporting Enterprise Network, On-Prem Infrastructure, Datacenters and Cloud organizations in their Cyber practice.
• Drive a culture of Security by Design, automation to scale cyber security practices.

Industry Engagements & Cyber Transformation

• Establish partnerships with industry leaders and forums to constantly assess new trends and solutions.
• Lead transformation towards Security by Design and Zero Trust principles for Network & Infrastructure.
• Operationalize future Cyber Security Architectures and Policies related to Network & Infrastructure, constantly raising our maturity and level of protection.

Leadership

• Lead a team of cybersecurity engineers with both network & infrastructure, security engineers, threat intelligence analysts, security champions and risk management personnel.
• Focus on employee hiring, career development, rotation and succession planning.
• Motivate staff through servant leadership.
• Identify opportunities for automation, partnering with our India team.
• Stakeholdering with multiple external teams, with sometimes competing, organizationally separate groups and goals.
• Effective communication of complex technical subjects to non-expert, cross-functional peers, with effective storytelling and proficiency when presenting to leadership.
• Cross-functional collaboration and relationship building to achieve wider, organizational strategic goals.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in network engineering, computer science, IT infrastructure or related discipline.
• Ten or more years of relevant work experience in Security, IT, and/or Network.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC and DevSecOps
• One or more of the following certifications - CISSP, CCIE, CCSK, TOGAF, SABSA
• Experience managing a team of experienced, technical professionals.
• Willingness to travel.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, network, engineering, computer science or related discipline.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment while managing multiple high-priority projects.
• Strong strategic and collaborative skills required to energize and provide direction to teams that are cross organizational(e.g. IT, Cyber and Business).
• Experience in planning large budgets and executing on target.
• Experience with networking concepts and protocols; security and compliance.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, project management and communication skills.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving abilities in order to quickly find solutions to problems where no previous examples or methods may exist.
• Ability to engage people in the vision and demonstrate the meaning of the work for the bigger purpose.