Security Operations Lead

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Your day at NTT DATA
The Manager, Security Platform Engineering is a management role, responsible for providing operational management and support to a team of Security Platform Engineers who are accountable for detecting and monitoring escalated threats and suspicious activity affecting the organization's technology domain (servers, networks, appliances and all infrastructure supporting production applications for the enterprise, as well as development environments).
This role works closely with cross functional teams and learns more about new security tools and technologies that are getting onboarded. This role also learns more about the administration, monitoring and maintenance of the security tools/technologies.
The Manager, Security Platform Engineering is a people management role, accountable for fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture focused on achieving operational excellence.

Key responsibilities:

• Works as part of a 24/7 team that works on a rotational shift basis.
• Works as part of Platform and Content Engineering handling tunings, stakeholder requests, escalations, reporting, trainings.
• Administration of the organizational security tools to gather security logs from environment 4 Life cycle management of the supported security tools/technologies, Break-fix, Patching, Live update.
• Creates SOPs and notify stakeholders
• Documents best practices.
• Identifies opportunities to make automations which will help the incident response team.
• Performs hiring and staffing of high-quality engineers.
• Ensures all team members are trained on all aspects of the service.
• Ensures all team members are trained on customer service skills.
• Reviews work output of team members and provides relevant coaching and mentoring.

Knowledge Attributes:

• Ability to lead engineering team and fostering a collaborative team environment.
• Ability to influence behavior without organizational hierarchy.
• Enthusiastic with a positive mindset.
• Strong problem-solving, organization and project management skills.
• Ability to ensure that standards and procedures are adhered to within defined SLAs.
• Ability to ensure that projects, assigned work, initiatives are in line with business strategy.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology or related field.
• Relevant level of Networking certifications such as CCNA, JNCIA, ACCA, PCNSA, CCSA etc. preferred.
• Relevant level of Security certifications such as AZ-500, SC-200, Security+, CEH, CISSP, CISM etc. will be added advantage.

Required experience:

• Advanced experience in leading and managing Security teams.
• Advanced experience in Security technologies like (Firewall, IPS, IDS, Proxy etc.).
• Advanced experience in technical support to clients.
• Advanced experience in diagnosis and troubleshooting
• Advanced experience providing remote support in Security Technologies.
• Advanced experience in SOC/CSIRT Operations.
• Advanced experience in handling security incidents end to end
• Knowledge on networking, Linux and security concepts.
• Advanced experience in configuring/managing security controls such as Firewall, IDS/IPS, EDR, NDR, UTM, Proxy, SOAR, HoneyPots and other security tools.
• Knowledge on log collection mechanism such as Syslog, Log file, DB API.
• Knowledge in security architecture.
• Advanced experience in Security Engineering.

Workplace type:

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