Security Platform Engineering Manager /Associate Director

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Title

Security Platform Engineering Manager /Associate Director

Main Attributes

• Proven experience in leading and managing technical teams with a focus on cybersecurity platforms.
• Strong structured thinking and ability to manage multiple technologies efficiently while ensuring scalability and robustness.
• Ability to collaborate across diverse teams and disciplines while fostering innovation.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex security concepts to various stakeholders.
• Proactive problem solver with a 'first time right' mindset, driving efficiency and accuracy in implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional security platform teams with diverse skill sets and backgrounds.
• Lead to define structure in unstructured environment

What You'll Be Doing

As the Security Platform Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of security platform engineers, driving best-in-class engineering practices and ensuring operational excellence. Your role involves fostering a first-time-right and automation-first mindset, defining optimal engineering methodologies, and promoting Agile adoption within the team. You will establish robust testing and design frameworks, ensuring the resilience and efficiency of security solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and empower a team of security engineers, serving as the key escalation point for technical challenges.
• Provide strategic direction for the security platform team, supporting security technologies, tools, and solutions.
• Establish, implement, and refine engineering best practices to enhance productivity and security effectiveness.
• Participate in security platform meetings, ensuring alignment with cybersecurity objectives.
• Perform PM (performance management) checkin for sec platform engineers as per company policy , gather and document feedback related to individuals performance
• Collaborating with service leads to define and monitor KPIs for security platform technologies, ensuring measurable improvements.
• Work closely with tech leads to solve critical and complex security challenges.
• Oversee the creation of insightful dashboards for leadership and operations, enabling data-driven decision-making.
• Coordinate with teams such as threat/vulnerability management, incident response, and application security for new technology implementations and escalation management.
•  Continuously identify and drive automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency and security response effectiveness.
• Collaborate to optimize security and performance metrics, ensuring visibility and continuous improvement.
• Strategically manage the team's project backlog, prioritizing initiatives based on business impact, risk assessments, and available resources.
• Collaborate with security platform operations teams to identify opportunities for streamlining processes.
• Partner with service leads to define an operating model for verticals and horizontal pillars of security platform services.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior security leader for the Bengaluru Security Platform Engineering team, driving strategic initiatives and operational excellence.
• Build, mentor, and lead high-performing security platform engineering teams.
• Champion compliance with industry security standards, regulatory requirements, and organizational policies.

What You Should Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field.
•   Minimum of 15 years of experience in information security, with expertise in platform Engineering
•  Proven ability to build and manage teams of technical professionals, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Demonstrated experience coaching and mentoring highly skilled technical individual contributors
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Experience in a global, multi-cultural environment, collaborating with teams across different regions and time zones.
• Deep hands-on expertise with cybersecurity tools, technologies, and security frameworks.
• Strong leadership skills with a proven ability to cultivate a collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical security concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management abilities for cross-functional collaboration.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or GIAC are a plus.

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