Responsibilities
Leadership and Strategy Development:
- Lead enterprise-wide cybersecurity incident response strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and organizational risk appetite.
- Act as the primary incident commander for high-severity (P1/P0) cybersecurity incidents, driving decisive action under pressure.
- Define and mature the organization’s incident response operating model, playbooks, escalation paths, and KPIs.
- Provide strategic guidance to SOC and security teams to improve detection fidelity, response efficiency, and resilience.
- Present incident posture, trends, and security maturity insights to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.

Risk Management:
- Assess and prioritize cybersecurity incidents based on business impact, threat severity, and operational risk.
- Ensure root cause analysis (RCA) is conducted post-incident to identify control gaps and systemic risks.
- Translate incident learnings into corrective and preventive actions, reducing recurrence risks.
- Support enterprise risk assessments by contributing incident data,



threat trends, and exposure insights.
- Coordinate with business units to manage residual risk and track remediation to closure.

Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC):
- Collaborate with application and product teams to integrate incident learnings into secure SDLC practices.
- Provide guidance on incident-driven improvements to secure coding, dependency management, and setting hardening.
- Engage with development teams during security incidents involving applications, APIs, or CI/CD pipelines.
- Support post-incident reviews to strengthen preventive controls across design, development, and deployment stages.

Application Security Testing and Tools:
- Support application-level investigations, including log analysis, attack-path validation, and exploitation assessment.
- Leverage application security testing outputs (SAST, DAST, SCA) to correlate findings with real-world incidents.
- Work

📌 Head - SOC Incident Response (Ahmedabad)
🏢 Adani
📍 Ahmedabad