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Job Summary Are you passionate about innovation that transforms everyday products into extraordinary experiences? IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences, we deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products. Food Ingredients: Innovating improved nutritional profiles, better taste and texture and greater cost efficiency to meet the needs of global food and beverage manufacturers.
The role is based in Hyderabad, India (Hybrid role). Be part of a motivated, passionate, and open-minded team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration. Where You’ll Make a Difference Lead and manage the Cyber Fusion Center’s day-to-day operations , ensuring effective collaboration across security monitoring, detection engineering, incident response, threat intelligence, and security automation functions.
Own and manage enterprise email security platforms, including policy tuning, threat detection, phishing defense, reporting, escalation processes, and continuous improvement of email protection capabilities. Oversee endpoint security strategy and operations , including endpoint detection and response, policy enforcement, endpoint coverage, exception handling, and integration with broader security operations workflows.
Manage SIEM capabilities , including log source onboarding, use case development, correlation rules, alert quality, dashboarding, metrics, and continuous improvement of detection coverage. Lead SOAR automation strategy, including development and optimization of playbooks, automated enrichment, response workflows, analyst efficiency improvements, and measurable reduction of manual effort. Build and mature the threat intelligence program by collecting, analyzing, prioritizing, and operationalizing intelligence to improve detection, prevention, incident response, and executive awareness.
Develop operational metrics, executive reporting, and performance indicators to measure detection effectiveness, response readiness, automation value, endpoint coverage, and overall Cyber Fusion Center maturity. Plan, coordinate, and facilitate cybersecurity tabletop exercises to test incident readiness, validate roles and responsibilities, identify process gaps, and improve organizational response maturity.
Manage the enterprise Incident Response Plan, ensuring it remains current, accurate, tested, aligned with business and regulatory requirements, and continuously improved based on lessons learned. Serve as a senior escalation point during high-priority cybersecurity incidents, coordinating technical response, executive communications, stakeholder alignment, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident review activities.
Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of cybersecurity professionals, fostering accountability, continuous improvement, technical excellence, and a strong security operations culture. Partner with IT, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Risk, Internal Audit, and business stakeholders to align cybersecurity operations with enterprise risk management, regulatory expectations, and business priorities.
Ensure compliance with requirements mandating security tools on all applicable endpoints, including tracking coverage, identifying gaps, reporting exceptions, and driving remediation with infrastructure and endpoint teams. What Makes You the Right Fit Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Information Technology or any other relevant discipline. Minimum 10+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, information security, security operations, incident response, threat detection, or related technology leadership roles.
2-4 years of team leadership experience, managing teams of 10-15 employees in a high-performance environment. Demonstrated experience managing or leading security operations capabilities, such as a SOC, Cyber Fusion Center, incident response team, detect