Manager, Cyber Fusion Center

About the role

IFF is hiring a Manager for its Cyber Fusion Center, a hybrid role based in Hyderabad, India. The manager leads and manages the day-to-day operations of the center, covering security monitoring, detection engineering, incident response, threat intelligence and security automation, and builds and matures a team of cybersecurity professionals.

Key responsibilities

• Manage email security platforms, including policy tuning, threat detection, phishing defense, reporting and escalation.
• Oversee endpoint security strategy, including EDR, policy enforcement, coverage and exception handling.
• Manage SIEM capabilities: log onboarding, use cases, correlation rules, alerts, dashboards and metrics.
• Lead SOAR automation, including playbooks, automated enrichment and analyst efficiency improvements.
• Build the threat intelligence program and define metrics and executive reporting on detection effectiveness and automation value.
• Plan and run tabletop exercises and maintain the enterprise Incident Response Plan.
• Serve as a senior escalation point during high-priority incidents and lead incident response coordination.
• Partner with IT, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Risk, Internal Audit and business stakeholders, and ensure security tools are deployed on all applicable endpoints.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of 10-15 cybersecurity professionals.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Information Technology or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, security operations, incident response or related technology leadership roles.
• 2-4 years of team leadership experience managing teams of 10-15 people.
• Demonstrated experience managing a SOC, Cyber Fusion Center, incident response team or similar security operations capability.
• Proven ability to manage major security incidents and communicate with senior leadership.
• Experience developing incident response plans, runbooks, playbooks, tabletop exercises and escalation procedures.

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with email security, endpoint security, SIEM, SOAR, threat intelligence and security monitoring.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity frameworks, regulatory expectations and audit requirements.
• Leadership, communication, stakeholder management and decision-making skills.
• Relevant industry certification such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, GIAC, CCSP or similar strongly preferred.

What we offer

• Multinational and supportive working environment.
• Health insurance.
• Training opportunities and learning and development programs.