Position: Senior Manager – Cyber Security + AI
Location: Bangalore, India
Experience: 12+ years
Reporting To: Associate Director - Cyber Defense
Department: Information Security (InfoSec)
Role Overview
Flipkart is seeking a seasoned and hands-on security leader to join as Senior Manager – Security Operations. This role is critical to driving Flipkart’s secure-by-design vision, and will be directly responsible for designing and implementing security monitoring and operations across our infrastructure platforms, hybrid cloud environments, and core orchestration layers.
Key Responsibilities
● Security Operations Leadership
○ Lead the day-to-day operations of the Cyber Security team, including Security Operations Center (SOC, Threat Detection, and Threat Intelligence)
○ Build and enhance capabilities for 24x7 monitoring and response to security incidents.
○ Manage outsourced Security Operations Centre partner and team
● Threat Management
○ Drive the development and tuning of detection use-cases, playbooks, and alerting mechanisms using SIEM and XDR tools.
○ Oversee proactive threat hunting and threat intelligence integration to detect advanced persistent threats (APT) and reduce dwell time.
● Incident Response & Crisis Management
○ Lead and coordinate high-impact incident response efforts, including root cause analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery.
○ Conduct regular incident response simulations and tabletop exercises with stakeholders.
● Security Engineering & Automation
○ Partner with the security engineering team to design and implement detection and response automation.
○ Drive continuous improvement of detection logic and response workflows.
● Metrics & Reporting
○ Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for security operations.
○ Present operational metrics, risk trends, and incident learnings to leadership on a regular basis.
● Team Building & People Leadership
○ Hire, coach, and lead a high-performing team of security operations te