Email Security Lead (Mimecast)

Greetings from Teknikoz

Experience : 8+Years

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and continuously improve Mimecast Email Security implementation to prevent phishing, spoofing, and malware threats targeting users.
• Establish advanced filtering, impersonation protection, and attachment sandboxing policies per risk-based user segmentation.
• Ensure email routing, journaling, and DKIM/DMARC/SPF configurations are aligned with compliance and audit requirements.
• Monitor and resolve advanced email threats, perform RCA on false negatives/positives, and lead remediation for targeted phishing attacks.
• Integrate email security events into SIEM for correlation with identity and endpoint telemetry for improved incident detection.
• Develop reporting templates for weekly threat trends and support governance teams with compliance submissions.
• Provide guidance on BEC protection, email content control, and mailbox behavior analytics.
• Lead simulation testing, phishing campaign exercises, and user awareness metrics for ongoing posture improvements.
• Collaborate with IT and IR teams to drive end-to-end containment and recovery of email-borne incidents.
• Define operational baselines, tune policies, and manage escalations from SOC analysts and internal stakeholders.

Key Skills & Certifications:

• 8+ years in email and perimeter security; 4+ years leading Mimecast security operations.
• Advanced knowledge of MIME filtering, encryption, DKIM/DMARC/SPF, sandboxing, and impersonation protection.
• Mimecast Certified Specialist or equivalent certifications preferred.
• Exposure to ISO 27001, RBI/SEBI compliance reporting.
• Strong understanding of mail routing, M365, Exchange Online integration.