Cyber Defense Specialist

ROLE DESCRIPTION
Purpose: Serve as a hands-on Cyber Defense expert responsible for advanced security operations, complex incident handling, continuous service improvement, Exposure Management, and delivery of improvement projects and After Action follow-up actions.
Location: Hybrid in Bangalore or Remote India

Role Description

The Cyber Defense Specialist is a hands-on Cyber Defense expert responsible for protecting enterprise and Operating Company (OpCo) environments through advanced security monitoring, investigation, incident handling, threat analysis, and exposure reduction. The role serves as a trusted technical authority for complex security events and drives investigations from initial detection through containment, recovery, and lessons learned.
This role operates within a 24x7 security operations and follow-the-sun model. The Specialist independently handles complex incidents and incidents that require manual intervention or escalation, leads technical workstreams during incidents, guides service providers,



and makes sound risk-based decisions under pressure using established incident-management and escalation processes.
The role combines expert-level incident response with SOC operations, ticket and case triage, vulnerability and exposure management, DLP alert response, threat hunting, threat intelligence, detection improvement, and defensible evidence handling. A core expectation is to continuously improve the Cyber Defense service by identifying recurring weaknesses, contributing to improvement projects, strengthening standard work, and ensuring After Action Review commitments are implemented and validated.
The Cyber Defense Specialist works closely with global Security Operations leadership, managed security service providers, Cyber Defense Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud, Identity, Network Security, application owners, GRC, Audit, Legal, HR, Privacy, and business stakeholders. The role supports regulated and customer-cont

📌 Cyber Defense Specialist (India)
🏢 Ralliant
📍 India