Vice President - Security Operations Centre SOC PSS08020

Overview Of The Company

Our client is an industry leading financial services company.

Job Purpose: The Vice President Security operations will lead, manage, and optimise the security operations, ensuring real-time monitoring, detection, analysis, and response to cybersecurity threats.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute SOC strategy aligned with business objectives, cybersecurity vision, and compliance requirements.
• Develop and maintain SOC policies, processes, and playbooks based on industry best practices (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, MITRE ATT&CK).
• Implement a SOC Maturity Roadmap to enhance detection, response, and recovery capabilities.
• Oversee 24x7 SOC operations, ensuring timely detection and incident response.
• Monitor trading platforms, APIs, and connectivity gateways for anomalies and vulnerabilities. Track zero-day vulnerabilities, emerging threats, and APTs targeting financial markets.
• Lead incident triage, investigation, containment, and recovery. Conduct root cause analysis and post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence.
• Coordinate major incident response with regulators (SEBI, CERT-In, RBI) and law enforcement.
• Build and integrate Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) programs relevant to financial services. Implement proactive threat-hunting programs to detect and mitigate risks early.
• Collaborate with security architecture and engineering teams to improve detection and prevention.
• Manage and optimize SOC tools, platforms, and analytics. Drive automation (SOAR, ML-based anomaly detection, scripting) to improve efficiency and reduce MTTR.
• Prepare and submit mandatory incident reports within required timelines. Maintain audit-ready documentation and support external/internal audits and risk assessments.
• Strong Understanding of enterprise GRC frameworks and their integration with SOC. Collaborate with risk and compliance teams. Mapping SOC processes to enterprise risk registers, control assessments and resilience initiatives.
  
  
  

• Capability to build and drive SOC and security roadmap aligned with business goals.
• Strong understanding of SEBI Frameworks, knowledge of SIEM, cloud security & modern security architecture.
• Ability to handle cyber incidents and communicate effectively with leadership and regulators.