24 Sep
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Mizuho
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Chennai
Job description
Mizuho Global Services Pvt Ltd (MGS) is a subsidiary company of Mizuho Bank, Ltd, which is one of the largest banks, also called a Mega Bank of Japan. MGS was established in the year 2020 as part of Mizuho long-term strategy of creating a captive global processing center for remotely handling banking and IT-related operations of Mizuho Bank’s domestic and overseas offices and Mizuho’s group companies across the globe.
At Mizuho, we are committed to a culture driven by ethical values and supporting diversity in all its forms for our talent pool. The direction of MGS’s development is paved by its three key pillars: Mutual Respect, Discipline, and Transparency, which serve as the baseline of every process and operation carried out at MGS.
What’s in it for you?
Immense exposure and learning
Excellent growth opportunities
Company of highly passionate leaders and mentors
Ability to build things from scratch
Know more about MGS: Mizuho Global Services | Mizuho Global Service
Job Title: Senior Cyber Fusion Center Analyst (L3)
Location: Chennai
Mizuho Global Services (MGS) is seeking a Senior Cyber Fusion Center Analyst (L3) to serve as the highest technical escalation point within the Cyber Fusion Center. This role is responsible for leading complex incident investigations, identifying advanced threats, developing detection capabilities, and strengthening the organization's cyber defense posture through proactive threat hunting and continuous operational improvement.
The successful candidate will partner with Threat Intelligence, Detection Engineering, DFIR, Infrastructure, Cloud, Identity, and Security Engineering teams to improve detection coverage, accelerate response capabilities, and enhance Mizuho's resilience against sophisticated cyber threats.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead investigations and response efforts for high-severity cybersecurity incidents by determining attack scope, root cause, business impact, and remediation requirements while coordinating cross-functional response activities.
Identify and mitigate advanced threats through proactive threat hunting, adversary emulation, threat intelligence analysis, and the discovery of previously undetected malicious activity across enterprise environments.
Improve organizational detection and response capabilities by developing and optimizing detection use cases, behavioral analytics, response workflows, and security automation initiatives aligned to evolving threat landscapes.
Serve as the senior technical advisor and escalation point for Cyber Fusion Center operations by mentoring analysts, providing investigative guidance, and establishing best practices for incident response and threat detection activities.
Strengthen cyber resilience by conducting post-incident reviews, identifying control gaps, recommending security improvements, and driving continuous enhancements across people, processes, and technology.
Partner with Infrastructure, Cloud, Identity, Application Security, Threat Intelligence, and Security Engineering teams to improve visibility, enhance security architecture, and evaluate emerging threats and technologies.
Support cybersecurity governance, audit, regulatory, and operational maturity initiatives through executive reporting, technical documentation, cyber exercises, and capability development programs.
Required Qualifications:
7-10+ years of experience in Cyber Security Operations, Cyber Fusion Centers, Threat Hunting, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Digital Forensics, or related cybersecurity disciplines.
Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Advanced knowledge of incident response methodologies, threat hunting frameworks, digital forensics principles, adversary tactics, and MITRE ATT&CK.;
Proven experience leading complex cybersecurity investigations, major incident response activities, and threat-driven defense operations.
Experience performing threat hunting, attack-path analysis, threat intelligence-driven investigations, malware analysis, root cause analysis, and incident management.
Strong understanding of endpoint, network, identity, cloud, and email security architectures within large enterprise environments.
Experience developing detection logic, behavioral analytics, security content, automation workflows, and operational use cases to improve detection coverage and response effectiveness.
Advanced proficiency with SPL, Python, PowerShell, KQL, REST APIs, JSON, security automation, and data analysis techniques.
Security Technologies: Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, CrowdStrike Falcon, Palo Alto Cortex XDR, Microsoft Defender XDR, threat intelligence platforms, SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR solutions, cloud security technologies, identity security platforms, email security controls, network security solutions, and ITSM integrations.
Excellent communication, leadership, stakeholder management, and executive reporting skills.
Address:
Mizuho Global Services India Pvt. Ltd.
16th Floor, Tower B,
Brigade World Trade Centre,
No.142, Rajiv Gandhi Salai,
Chennai - 600 096, India.
📌 Senior Cyber Fusion Center Analyst (Chennai)
🏢 Mizuho
📍 Chennai