Senior Associate Data Protection Operations

As a Senior Associate Data Protection Operations, unlock your potential and embrace the chance to drive meaningful outcomes that’ll elevate your career. Your role will include, but isn’t limited to: 

• 3–5 years of hands-on experience in data protection operations (DLP and DSPM).

• Proven expertise in at least two primary technologies (Microsoft Purview, Microsoft AIP, Cyera, Big ID, SkyHigh, Trellix Symantec/Broadcom, Forcepoint, Varonis, Netskope ).

• Exposure to secondary tools (SIEM solutions like Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps, Splunk, Exabeam) is a plus.

• Proficient in Incident Management and Change Management.

• Ability to handle high pressure situations with key stakeholders internally and externally

• Good analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills

• Experience in performing vendor management

• Willingness to adapt to evolving threats and technologies, continuously learning and updating skills to stay ahead of emerging threats in the cybersecurity landscape.

• Experience working in an MSSP environment.

​What You'll Bring: 

Your skills, knowledge, and experiences are what set you apart. Here's what we look for: 

• Assist in onboarding new clients — requirements gathering, policy baselining, and go-live support.

• Continuously monitor the health of security applications and appliances, taking appropriate actions to ensure their optimal performance. 

• Integrate new data sources into data protection platforms. 

• Create and enforce policies following best practices, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements. Also, tune policies to address gaps.  

• Identify tuning opportunities to reduce alert noise and improve signal fidelity.

• Provide troubleshooting and support for configurations and management of data protection systems. 

• Be available for on-call rotation to address urgent data protection issues and incidents. 

• Build and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Current State Assessments (CSA), and runbooks for documentation purposes. 

• Understand and maintain security platforms, ensuring they are used to their full potential. 

• Work closely with client focal points to provide regular updates (weekly/monthly/quarterly). 

• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, building and maintaining positive working relationships. 

• Provide knowledge transfer sessions to peers and client personnel as required. 

• Operate and configure Data Protection solutions (DLP, DSPM).

• Manage quarantine, policy exceptions, and user escalations.

• Ability to design, configure, and validate enforcement data protections policies and rules.

• Support use-case development, threat modeling around insider risk and data exfiltration scenarios.

• Perform root cause analysis and document incident reports.

• Support compliance audits and operational reporting.

This position ensures continuity and upholds our standards of excellence following the departure of a valued team member.