Security Operations Manager - Chennai - GEXL

Job Title: Security Operations Manager
Experience: 8-10 years
Location: Chennai [Hybrid]

About the Company:
Our Client is a German-based technology company founded in 2000, offering a high-performance, in-memory, massively parallel processing (MPP) analytics database for data warehousing, business intelligence, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) workloads

Role Overview:
The Security Operations Manager leads and continuously improves security operations across cloud, infrastructure, endpoints, and SaaS environments, with a strong focus on AWS-based environments, incident response, and regulatory aligned security operations. The role owns day-to-day security operations, major incidents, and security initiatives. This role reports directly to the Information Security Lead and focuses on delivering measurable security improvements through projects, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Improving vulnerability management framework by strengthening triage processes, implementing risk-based prioritization, tracking remediation efforts, and enhancing reporting in line with EU regulatory expectations.

• Leading security incident response efforts and serving as the primary escalation point for complex or high-impact incidents, including incident classification, preparation of regulatory notifications, and post-incident reporting aligned with DORA and NIS2 requirements.

• Enhancing threat and attack visibility through robust logging, monitoring, and detection capabilities to support regulatory incident reporting timelines.

• Driving key security initiatives and programs such as data loss prevention (DLP), penetration testing, and vulnerability remediation to support operational resilience objectives.

• Providing strategic technical oversight for the configuration, operation, and continuous improvement of security platforms and tools, including SIEM, EDR/XDR, MDM, and IAM solutions.

• Strengthening cloud security, particularly within AWS environments, by applying security best practices and collaborating closely with IT and engineering teams.

• Leading threat intelligence activities and evaluating their relevance from a European regulatory and risk-based perspective.

• Supporting security architecture reviews and promoting security-by-design principles across systems and applications.

• Contributing to governance, risk management, and compliance initiatives, including ISO 27001, DORA, and NIS2.

• Leading information security awareness programs, including phishing simulations and employee security training.

Required Skills:
Must-Have:

• Strong experience with AWS security services (CloudTrail, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Security Hub, IAM).

• Experience interacting with European regulators or supervisory authorities.

• Accountable incident lead experience for EU-regulated incidents.

• Hands-on DORA and NIS2 incident handling experience.

• Strong SOC / security operations background with SIEM and EDR/XDR.

• Experience supporting EU regulatory audits (e.g., ISO 27001).

• Ability to translate regulatory requirements into security operations.

• Experience with threat intelligence or MITRE ATT&CK.

• Strong communication skills.

• German language skills are a plus.

Eligibility / Qualifications:

• Education: Any Undergraduate (or) Postgraduate

Other Details:

• Notice Period: Immediate/ 30 days

• Work Type: Full Time and Permanent