Cyber Security Lead

Job Description: Cybersecurity Engineering & Operations Lead

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana
Experience: 610 Years
Employment Type: Full-Time

Role Purpose

Responsible for end-to-end technical ownership of enterprise cybersecurity platforms protecting endpoints, data, email, web, cloud access, identities, and business applications. The role involves hands-on implementation, monitoring, policy management, troubleshooting, vulnerability remediation, and audit support within a regulated life-sciences environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement, upgrade, integrate, and maintain enterprise cybersecurity solutions.
• Configure and optimize security policies across DLP, EDR/XDR, email security, cloud/web security, and access control.
• Monitor security platform health, alerts, exceptions, and control effectiveness.
• Troubleshoot security, authentication, access, endpoint, email, and application-related issues.
• Coordinate vulnerability remediation, patching, system hardening, and secure configuration.
• Manage OEM/vendor escalations and coordinate with IT infrastructure, network, cloud, application, and SOC teams.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational reports, dashboards, and audit-ready evidence.
• Evaluate security technologies and identify automation and continuous improvement opportunities.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in DLP, EDR/XDR, endpoint security, email security, IAM, and cloud/web security.
• Knowledge of Active Directory/Entra ID, Windows systems, networking, DNS, and vulnerability management.
• Experience in security policy configuration, troubleshooting, incident management, and remediation tracking.
• Strong documentation, analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
• 6–10 years of IT/cybersecurity experience, including at least 5 years in hands-on security engineering or platform operations.
• Experience in pharma, life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing, or another regulated environment is preferred.

Preferred Certifications

CISSP, CISM, CCSP, CompTIA Security+, Microsoft Security certifications, or equivalent credentials.