Senior Security Operations - Chennai

Job Description

The Senior Security Operations Analyst will play a lead role, assisting the Head of Security Operations, in a team of up to 10 staff delivering these services. He/she will report directly to the Head of Security Operations. He/she will contribute to all aspects of the Companys operational security strategy and programme, as appropriate to demand, workload, skills and experience. He/she should have accumulated at least 7 years relevant experience in a role in industry or an IT or security services provider.Business Function:Equiniti Group maintains an Information Security Framework that allows the right level of security for the companys Information to be achieved by all relevant parties working together. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) provides leadership, sets strategy and direction, establishes Policy, sponsors initiatives and mandates action within the Framework to achieve the desired level of security. The CISO directs all aspects of the Groups Information, IT and Cyber Security and manages the Group Information Security (GIS) function.The Successful candidate will be responsible for following:

• Conduct regular compliance reviews of actual practice in teams across the IT organisation against defined operational IT security processes.
• Ensure that operational security processes are adjusted as security needs or the Companys business change.
• Identify potential for improvements in cost efficiency in the main operational security activities and provide feedback to the CISO and Head of Security Operations to instigate projects and initiatives that seek to achieve these improvements.
• Monitor quality of service and quality of security control targets and metrics with all non-security teams throughout the Company engaged in operational IT Security activities.
• Participate in requirements definition, acceptance and implementation of projects and initiatives that are developed by GIS for the infrastructure and tools that support the main operational IT Security activities.
• Identify and conduct IT Security Monitoring and Testing activities to the appropriate quality of service and security. In particular this involves working with the Companys external security monitoring partner (currently Dell SecureWorks) to ensure complete, effective and robust levels of protection through monitoring and response.
• Design & oversee the implementation of sound security management practices and controls for day-to-day access security administration and monitoring by other business and IT teams.
• Monitor the compliance of relevant external suppliers on day-to-day basis with Group Information Security Policy and related standards and practices, especially as they impact information access and protection.
• Monitor for, respond to, mitigate impact of, take remedial action during, and define lessons learnt from, information security incidents, gathering input from other information and IT security teams.
• Organise and oversee pre-production application security penetration testing services for application to suitable high-risk applications development.
• Contribute as appropriate to IT operations and infrastructure development initiatives within Group IT from the IT security perspective.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills and behaviours:The Senior Security Operations Analyst will have held previous positions as an Operational Security team leader, senior SOC analyst, Threat Analyst or Hunter, Penetration or Red Team tester. He/she should have accumulated at least 7 years relevant experience in a role in industry or an IT or security services provider.Extensive experience of the following is essential:Managed security monitoring services and other relevant security technology vendors and service provider

• Technical analysis of cyber security threats and threat intelligence
• De facto or (inter)national standards for control, such as CoBIT, ISO 2700x, NIST CSF, etc.

In addition the following key experience is preferred:

• Experience of delivering against similar accountabilities with global impact in an organisation of similar scale and complexity as Equiniti
• Ability and motivation to work with parties inside and outside the security community through a cooperative, interactive, trustful and respectful approach
• A doer with capacity to drive relevant activities personally
• Broad general knowledge of good information security practice

Regards,Chandra ,

Keyskills :
information accesssecurity monitoringinfrastructure developmentsecurity operationspenetration testingquality of serviceit securityinformation securityit operationscost efficiencyred teamsecurity administrationnew business generationapplicatio