Associate Director – Vulnerability Lead

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

12

Job Description  

S&P Global Corporate 

The Role: Senior Infrastructure Engineer/ Associate Director – Vulnerability Lead  

Grade: 11/12 

The Location: Hyderabad/Gurgaon/Bangalore 

 

The Team: Productivity Services is part of Digital Workplace. Our global team focuses on providing architectural and engineering services for S&P Global’s desktops, laptops, virtual desktops, print services, mobile devices and productivity applications. 

Responsibilities and Impact: 

• Application Oversight: Oversee the management of over 45,000 workstations using Intune/SCCM/Tanium, collaborating with Divisions, InfoSec teams, and other stakeholders. 

• Team Leadership: Lead a global team of engineers responsible for the design, configuration, testing, deployment, health, and maintenance of vulnerability remediation tasks. 

• Stakeholder Engagement: Foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership, BISOs, and technical teams. 

• Product Mindset: Align the team to a product methodology using Scrum, including the creation of AGILE boards, sprint planning, and execution of Epic goals, prioritizing the backlog in Azure DevOps (ADO) boards. 

• Engineering Quality & Operational Rigor: Implement a robust framework to ensure all development activities follow defined phases, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and quality assurance. Enforce rigorous documentation standards and adherence to change management guidelines. Conduct regular audits to ensure compliance, standardize development efforts, minimize risks, and enhance operational resilience. 

• Change & Incident Management: Serve as the department approver for all Tanium change requests and implementations, managing cloud and on-premises workloads. Act as a key contributor for indexing, reporting, and monitoring remediation efforts for major incidents. 

• Deployment Projects: Partner effectively with divisions, workplace, and InfoSec teams to securely deploy OS updates and third-party patches, leveraging different toolsets and the Microsoft technology stack. 

• Strategy & Continuous Improvement: Foster strong relationships with LOBs, senior leadership, divisions, and security practitioners globally. Engage with BISOs (business information security officers) on patching and remediation strategy. 

• Metrics, and Reporting: Leverage technology stack to report and manage the requirements of various metrics requested by different stakeholders.  

• Audit, and Compliance: Create and provide required artifacts for audit and regulatory requirements. 

• Vulnerability Management: Ability to research, digest, and determine a remediation for identified CVEs.  

 

Basic Required Qualifications: 

• Education and Experience: A Bachelor's degree is preferred, along with 10+ years of infrastructure experience. 

• Platform Expertise: In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with various platforms and tools, including Intune, SCCM, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, Beyond Trust, Citrix (VA & VDI), Application Re-packaging, scripting tools, Windows Autopatch, Windows Autopilot, and Windows Operating Systems. Proficiency in managing large-scale environments with over 45,000 endpoints. 

• Team Leadership: Experience in leading global teams, particularly in endpoint engineering and infrastructure management. 

• Effective Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate technical concepts and strategies to various stakeholders. 

• Incident, Change & Troubleshooting: Experience in handling change requests and major incident remediation. Strong problem-solving skills for first- and second-hand troubleshooting and remediation. Expertise in monitoring infrastructure stability and performance, and familiarity with tools for real-time visibility and reporting. 

• Data Analysis: Ability to analyze metrics, performance data, and compliance artifacts to support decision-making and strategy development. 

• Audit and Regulatory Requirements: Understanding of audit processes and regulatory requirements, and the ability to produce necessary artifacts. 

• SDLC & Agile Methodology: Strong understanding of SDLC frameworks and best practices, and proficiency in Agile practices, Scrum framework, and managing Agile boards in tools like Azure DevOps (ADO). 

• Security Baseline Management: Understanding of security baselines and CIS Benchmarks. 

• Training and Mentorship: Capability to train and mentor global teams on technical and process-related disciplines. 

 

What’s In It For You?

Our Purpose:

Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:
 

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include: 

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Inclusive Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and equal opportunity, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.  Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.  

 

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.  
 
US Candidates Only:  The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law.  Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision - https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf

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