Senior Director, Security Engineering

Overview

Lead an India-based cybersecurity engineering and operations enablement organization focused on modernization, automation, AI enablement, and 24x7 global engineering support. Reports to the U.S.-based Vice President, Cyber Architecture & Engineering and serves as the senior cybersecurity leadership representative in India.

What you'll do

• Build and lead the India-based Cybersecurity Engineering, Operations, Automation, and AI Enablement organization.
• Translate global Cyber Architecture & Engineering strategy into India-based execution plans.
• Establish India as a strategic cybersecurity modernization and engineering hub.
• Partner with U.S.-based leadership to shape cyber engineering modernization priorities.
• Define the organization's operating model, service catalog, delivery model, and success metrics.
• Represent the organization in India market leadership forums, technology leadership forums, and senior cybersecurity governance meetings.
• Lead modernization efforts that improve how cybersecurity capabilities are engineered, supported, measured, and continuously improved.
• Drive adoption of product-oriented service ownership across security platforms and capabilities.
• Reduce manual operational friction through workflow redesign, automation, telemetry, and AI-enabled productivity.
• Improve operating discipline across change management, release management, service health, documentation, and production readiness.
• Establish enterprise cybersecurity automation standards, patterns, and reusable integration approaches.
• Prioritize automation opportunities across cyber defense, cloud security, endpoint security, data & AI security, and application security.
• Ensure automation is safe, tested, auditable, resilient, and aligned with enterprise change control.
• Drive automation that reduces cycle time, operational toil, ticket volume, incident response friction, and manual reporting.
• Lead AI enablement for cybersecurity teams, including secure AI use cases, prompt libraries, knowledge workflows, reporting automation, summarization, analysis acceleration, and engineering productivity.
• Partner with Data & AI Security to ensure cybersecurity AI enablement follows approved security, privacy, legal, and risk guardrails.
• Identify and scale responsible AI use cases across cybersecurity architecture, engineering, operations, risk reporting, incident support, and control management.
• Ensure human review remains embedded in high-risk or decision-impacting AI workflows.
• Establish India-based follow-the-sun support for critical cybersecurity platforms, automation workflows, telemetry pipelines, control health monitoring, and incident response engineering needs.
• Define escalation models, support tiers, handoff procedures, incident engagement rules, and service-level expectations.
• Partner with SOC, incident response, and cyber defense engineering teams to ensure production support processes are clear and reliable.
• Improve cyber engineering resilience through operational dashboards, runbooks, service reviews, and post-incident improvement tracking.
• Lead, mentor, and develop directors, principal engineers, and cybersecurity engineers in India.
• Build a strong leadership bench and technical talent pipeline.
• Serve as a visible senior cybersecurity leader in India.
• Support hiring, retention, succession planning, workforce development, and leadership development.
• Create a culture of accountability, technical excellence, collaboration, urgency, transparency, and continuous improvement.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information security, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years of experience in cybersecurity, technology operations, security engineering, infrastructure, automation, cyber defense, or enterprise technology leadership.
• 8+ years leading technical teams, preferably across multiple geographies.
• 12+ years of experience in security engineering, cybersecurity, information security, cloud security, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in a management capacity.
• Experience building or scaling India-based technology or cybersecurity organizations.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity architecture, engineering, operations, cyber defense, cloud, endpoint, infrastructure, IAM, data security, and application security dependencies.
• Experience with automation, SOAR, API integrations, workflow orchestration, DevSecOps, platform operations, or production support.
• Experience leading modernization programs in large, regulated global enterprises.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to lead through influence across matrixed organizations.

Nice to have

• Master's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information security, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Certification in cybersecurity, information security, cloud security.
• Experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical services, financial services, technology, manufacturing, or another regulated industry.
• Experience with AI-enabled security operations or cybersecurity productivity use cases.
• Experience with 24x7 or follow-the-sun engineering support models.
• Experience supporting SOC, incident response, vulnerability management, cloud security, or endpoint security operations.
• Experience with platforms such as ServiceNow, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike, Wiz, Microsoft Defender, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Tines, Torq, Cortex XSOAR, or similar technologies.
• Experience establishing product-oriented operating models for cybersecurity services.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.
• Full-time employment.