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Director - Infrastructure Security Engineering
ICT
Company shared salary
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Market rate
₹450,000–₹800,000/mo (₹5,400,000–₹9,600,000/yr)
Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).
About the Company
Are you ready to secure the digital backbone that powers the discovery, development, and delivery of life changing medicines Can you turn strategy into engineered controls across large-scale enterprises while leading a high-performing distributed team Based in Chennai, India, you will lead Infrastructure Security Engineering across operational technology, device protection, email safeguards, and network defense. Your work will safeguard our scientists, manufacturing sites, data, and global operations-creating the resilience that keeps vital medicines moving to patients.
Responsibilities
- ● ou will work with product, engineering, manufacturing, regulatory, and Cyber Defense groups. Together, you will turn business priorities and threat intelligence into secure, reliable, automated solutions. These solutions reduce risk and speed up the business.
- ● Accountabilities:
- ● Security Leadership: Define the strategy, operating model, roadmap, and governance for Endpoint, Email, and network protection to align with business priorities and threat landscape.
- ● Solution Delivery: Lead the build, implementation, testing, operation, and ongoing improvement of security solutions, ensuring measurable outcomes in resilience, detectability, and recoverability.
- ● Security Capabilities: Drive OT security engineering, ICS, SBCs, endpoint protection and detection, protection of electronic communications, network segmentation, firewalls, secure connectivity, IDS/IPS-uplifting coverage and control efficiency across the enterprise.
- ● Automation and Scale: Promote automation to improve the scalability, consistency, and efficiency of security engineering and compliance activities, shortening cycle times and reducing human error.
- ● Technical Mentorship and Governance: Provide expert mentorship to senior collaborators, architects, engineering teams, vendors, and strategic partners; embed policies, standards, and build patterns that enable secure-by-design delivery.
- ● People Leadership: Lead and develop a distributed team of security engineers, encouraging collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement; attract, grow, and retain diverse technical talent.
- ● Risk and Resilience: Translate threats and vulnerabilities into prioritized engineering backlogs; improve prevention, detection, and response across endpoints, networks, email, and OT; strengthen the resilience of manufacturing and operational environments.
- ● Collaborator Partnership: Collaborate with business, technology, architecture, compliance, and information security teams to integrate controls into platforms and products, realizing security outcomes that enable safe, fast adoption of new technologies.
- ● Continuous Improvement and Metrics: Establish outcome-based metrics and service health indicators; drive retrospectives and learning loops to continually mature capabilities and reduce operational toil. Essential Skills/Experience:
- ● Enterprise Security Leadership: Significant experience leading infrastructure or cyber security engineering in a large, complex, global organisation.
- ● Domain Expertise: Good experience in at least two of the following: Endpoint Security, Email Security, Network Security, Cloud Security, Security Operations, or Infrastructure Architecture.
- ● Technical Capability: Experience with working in OT environments, EDR/XDR, SIEM/SOAR, vulnerability management, firewalls, IDS/IPS, secure web gateways, email security platforms, and network security controls.
- ● Security Engineering: Demonstrable ability to compose, build, configure, test, implement, and operate enterprise security solutions.
- ● Strategy and Governance: Background in developing security plans, timelines, guidelines, criteria, protocols, and control frameworks.
- ● Threat and Risk Management: Good understanding of cyber threats, vulnerabilities, attack techniques, and preventive, detective, and corrective controls.
- ● Automation: Experience with scripting, systems administration, automated environment provisioning, configuration management, or security process automation.
- ● Collaborator Influence: Ability to communicate complex security topics and influence collaborators at technical, strategic, and executive levels.
- ● Regulated Environments: Experience working within regulated, highly controlled, or rule-focused environments is advantageous.
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