Job Title Senior Security Operations Lead - Digital Networks

Job Description

Senior Security Operations / SME / Governance - Digital Networks

Role type: Senior individual contributor / hands-on subject-matter expert (with mentoring)

Experience: ~10-15 years in enterprise network security, with deep and *current* hands-on depth on Cisco Secure Firewall and at least one major proxy/SSE platform. Hands-on is non-negotiable, this is not a review-only role.

About the role

Deep technical authority for our firewall, proxy, and generic secure-access estate. You are the person who is hands-on in the consoles, scripts, and vendor APIs every week; the final escalation point when something hard breaks; and the one who keeps the estate audit-ready between incidents. You work in a patient-safety-first engineering culture: direct, plain-spoken, evidence over slideware. Profile mix: 55% Security Operations | 25% Hands-on Technical (incl. automation AIOps) | 20% Governance, Risk Compliance.

What youll own:
- Firewall estate - Cisco Secure Firewall (FTD / FMC / ASA / Firepower):



rule lifecycle and hygiene, HA, FMC upgrades and migrations, perimeter, and internal segmentation.
- Proxy web security - PAC file management at global scale (including China and other high-latency / restricted regions), proxy policy, SSL/TLS inspection.
- Secure Service Edge / SASE - Zscaler (ZIA / ZPA) and Cisco Umbrella as the primary platforms. Exposure to Palo-Alto, Netskope or Cloudflare One is a plus.
- Remote site connectivity - IPSec / SSL VPN, AnyConnect / Secure Client, site-to-site (S2S), out-of-band management (OOBM), and partner access (S2S / VDI).
- Identity access - Cisco ISE / AAA.
- Certificates PKI - certificate lifecycle and expiry management, TLS, and closed-loop certificate automation.
- Vulnerability advisory response - PSIRT cadence, patching, and upgrade lifecycle across the estate.

Hands-on Technical:
- Deep, current hands-on across the estate: Cisco FTD/FMC/ASA/Firepower, IS

📌 Senior Security Operations Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Philips
📍 Bengaluru