Job Title: Director, Infrastructure Security Engineering
GCL: F
Introduction to role:
Are you ready to secure the digital backbone that powers the discovery, development, and delivery of life‑changing medicines? Can you turn strategy into engineered controls across large-scale enterprises while leading a high-performing distributed team?
Based in Chennai, India, you will lead Infrastructure Security Engineering across operational technology, device protection, email safeguards, and network defense. Your work will safeguard our scientists, manufacturing sites, data, and global operations—creating the resilience that keeps vital medicines moving to patients.
You will set the vision and drive delivery for security capabilities at scale. You will work with product, engineering, manufacturing, regulatory, and Cyber Defense groups. Together, you will turn business priorities and threat intelligence into secure, reliable, automated solutions. These solutions reduce risk and speed up the business.
Accountabilities:
Security Leadership: Define the strategy, operating model, roadmap,



and governance for Endpoint, Email, and network protection to align with business priorities and threat landscape.
Solution Delivery: Lead the build, implementation, testing, operation, and ongoing improvement of security solutions, ensuring measurable outcomes in resilience, detectability, and recoverability.
Security Capabilities: Drive OT security engineering, ICS, SBCs, endpoint protection and detection, protection of electronic communications, network segmentation, firewalls, secure connectivity, IDS/IPS—uplifting coverage and control efficiency across the enterprise.
Automation and Scale: Promote automation to improve the scalability, consistency, and efficiency of security engineering and compliance activities, shortening cycle times and reducing human error.
Technical Mentorship and Governance: Provide expert mentorship to senior collaborators, architects, engineering teams, vendors, and

📌 Director - Infrastructure Security Engineering (Chennai)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 Chennai