Director of Cybersecurity Operations

Location: India - NCR/Bangalore/Remote

About the Role : HCL Software is seeking an accomplished security leader as Director of Cybersecurity Operations to head our cybersecurity operations organization. This role owns four pillars of our defensive and offensive security program: Function Scope Security Operations Center (SOC) 24×7 monitoring, detection, triage, and incident response SOC Engineering Detection engineering, SIEM/SOAR platform ownership, automation, and telemetry pipeline management Vulnerability Management (VM) CTEM, Enterprise-wide exposure identification, risk-based prioritization, and remediation governance Red Team Adversary emulation, offensive testing, and purple-team collaboration with defenders As Director, you will have full ownership of the cybersecurity operations charter: the people (four teams and their leaders, including hiring, development, and succession), the platforms (the SIEM/SOAR/EDR ecosystem and the vulnerability and offensive-security tooling stack), the budget (headcount, tooling, and vendor/MSSP contracts),



and the outcomes (detection and response performance, exposure reduction, and validated resilience against real-world attack techniques). You own the operational results end to end and are the accountable voice for them to the CISO and executive leadership. You will lead the continuous maturation of the SOC from a reactive, alert-driven operation toward a proactive, intelligence-led, and engineering-driven function. Establish and execute a maturity roadmap benchmarked against recognized models (e.g., SOC-CMM, NIST CSF), with measurable milestones across people, process, and technology.

Key Responsibilities Strategy & Leadership

• Own the multi-year strategy, roadmap, budget, and SOC, SOC Engineering, Vulnerability Management, and Red Team functions.

• Lead the leadership transition: retain institutional knowledge, stabilize the team, and build succession depth across all four pillar

📌 Director of Cyber Security Operations (Dharwad)
🏢 HCLSoftware
📍 Dharwad