Lead Cyber Defense Engineer, ITC

About the role

Nike is hiring a Lead Cyber Defense Engineer for its India Technology Center (ITC) Corporate Information Security team. The role reports to the Director of Cyber Data & Engineering and works with US-based platform architects, detection and response engineering and data science/ML leaders in a follow-the-sun delivery model. It builds, operates and improves the pipelines and services running on security platforms, using cloud security principles, data platforms, CI/CD pipelines, Python and API work.

Key responsibilities

• Build, deploy and operate security analytics on AWS and Databricks, aligned to team architecture and runbooks.
• Build and maintain medallion lakehouse pipelines (bronze/silver/gold) from security telemetry with schema governance, data quality checks and cost-aware compute.
• Develop and support production Python services (e.g. Lambda, containerized workloads) for ingestion, enrichment and integration with SOAR, analytics consumers and internal APIs.
• Use Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, jobs/workflows) for centralized pipelining, AI/ML integration and timely security alerting.
• Improve pipeline reliability, monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, runbooks and on-call participation.
• Deliver datasets, entity models and integration points for detection and hunting at scale; partner teams own detection rules.
• Apply Secure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CDK).
• Lead practices on software tools, quality, pipeline operations and automation, define solutions and estimate effort and risk.
• Mentor team members, maintain code documentation and diagrams, and lead sprint ceremonies in JIRA.

Required profile

• Minimum 10 years of software development experience, including 2+ years in a lead or senior technical role; cyber security or security analytics experience preferred.
• Direct experience with Python development, testing and tooling.
• Direct experience building and operating data lakehouse pipelines and hands-on Databricks experience.
• Experience delivering solutions on AWS (Lambda, S3, IAM, event-driven patterns, Terraform or CDK); other cloud providers a plus.
• Experience with medallion architecture, schema governance, data quality, idempotent ingestion, backfill/replay and batch or streaming pipelines.
• Experience with production data platforms, monitoring, troubleshooting, runbooks and shared on-call support.
• Experience with REST APIs; experience building them and integrating SOAR or security tooling a plus.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, CircleCI or Artifactory.
• Ability to elicit requirements from business partners and stakeholders, and to manage, guide and mentor a team.

Required skills

• Python
• AWS (Lambda, S3, IAM, EventBridge, KMS, Secrets Manager)
• Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables, streaming ingestion)
• Terraform or CDK
• Jenkins, CircleCI or Artifactory
• REST APIs and SOAR integration (a plus)
• Certifications such as CISSP or GIAC are a plus

Nike offers a generous total rewards package, a casual work environment and a diverse, inclusive culture focused on professional development.