Analyst - Cyber Defense

5210 Invesco (India) Private Limited - SEZ Unit; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible, Hybrid Work

Medical Insurance

Life Insurance

Annual Health Check-up

Employee Assistance Program

Study Support

Job summary

Invesco, a leading global investment firm, seeks a Cyber Defense professional to monitor and triage DLP alerts and protect sensitive data across the enterprise. You will validate alerts, gather evidence, and collaborate with Insider Threat and Engineering to improve detection and response.

The role involves engaging with users, escalating high-risk events, and contributing to operational reporting while supporting policy-level improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, cybersecurity, or related field; equivalent practical experience considered.
• Foundational understanding of data protection, information security, security operations, incident handling, and enterprise collaboration platforms.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and triage DLP alerts across email, endpoints, Teams/SharePoint/OneDrive and cloud activity.
• Review alert context, validate true vs. false positives, collect evidence, document outcomes clearly.
• Assist in engaging users with business contacts when data movement requires justification.
• Escalate high-risk or repeat data loss events to senior DLP leads and related teams.
• Identify false positives, data classification gaps, and suggest policy tuning to the DLP engineering team.
• Support operational reporting by tracking alert volumes, trends, SLA adherence, and outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive investigations and reporting tasks.
• Contribute observations and metrics for DLP committee discussions.

Skills

Cyber security

DLP monitoring

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Cybersecurity

Tools

Microsoft Purview DLP

Microsoft 365 security

SIEM

Job description

As one of the world’s leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you're looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.

Job Description

Your Team

The Cyber Defense team is responsible for monitoring Security alerts, investigating potential data loss events, and helping protect sensitive information across the enterprise. The team works closely with Engineering, Insider Risk, to ensure alerts are reviewed consistently, and risk-based outcomes are documented. This role is part of the operational team that provides insights, tuning recommendations, and policy-level suggestions to the DLP Committee while Engineering continues to own implementation of platform and policy changes.

Your Role

3+ Yrs of experience in cyber security.

• Monitor and triage DLP alerts, including email, endpoint, Teams/SharePoint/OneDrive, and cloud activity where applicable.
• Review alert context, validate true positives versus false positives, collect supporting evidence, and document outcomes clearly.
• In consultation with the Insider Threat Team, assist in engaging users and business contacts when additional context or business justification is required for data movement activity.
• Escalate confirmed, high-risk, or repeat data loss events to the Senior DLP Operations Lead, Incident Response, Insider Risk, as appropriate.
• Identify recurring false positives, noisy rules, data classification gaps, and process pain points; provide tuning and policy-level recommendations to the DLP Engineering team.
• Support operational reporting by tracking alert volumes, disposition trends, SLA adherence, repeat offenders, common data types, and control effectiveness indicators.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive investigation steps such as enrichment, evidence collection, user notification, ticket routing, case closure, and reporting.
• Contribute operational observations and metrics for DLP Committee discussions, including emerging risks, policy friction points, and recommended improvement actions.

Academic Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or a related discipline; equivalent practical experience may be considered. Foundational understanding of data protection, information security, security operations, incident handling, and enterprise collaboration platforms. Exposure to Microsoft Purview DLP, Microsoft 365 security/compliance tools, SIEM, ticketing systems, or case management workflows is preferred but not mandatory. Professional certifications such as Microsoft SC-400, SC-200, Security+, SSCP, or equivalent security/privacy certifications are preferred but not mandatory.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time Worker Type Employee Job Exempt (Yes / No) Yes

Workplace Model

At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least three days a week, with two days working outside an Invesco office.

Why Invesco

In Invesco, we act with integrity and do meaningful work to create impact for our stakeholders. We believe our culture is stronger when we all feel we belong, and we respect each other’s identities, lives, health, and well-being. We come together to create better solutions for our clients, our business and each other by building on different voices and perspectives. We nurture and encourage each other to ensure our meaningful growth, both personally and professionally. We believe in diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace where everyone feels equally valued, and this starts at the top with our senior leaders having diversity and inclusion goals. Our global focus on diversity and inclusion has grown exponentially and we encourage connection and community through our many employee-led Business Resource Groups (BRGs).

What’s in it for you?

As an organization we support personal needs, diverse backgrounds and provide internal networks, as well as opportunities to get involved in the community and in the world. Our benefit policy includes but not limited to:

• Competitive Compensation
• Flexible, Hybrid Work
• 30 days’ Annual Leave + Public Holidays
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Planning Group
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Medical Insurance for Employee and Family
• Annual Health Check-up
• 26 weeks Maternity Leave
• Paternal Leave
• Adoption Leave
• Near site Childcare Facility
• Employee Assistance Program
• Study Support
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• ESG Commitments and Goals
• Business Resource Groups
• Career Development Programs
• Mentoring Programs

Invesco Cares Dress for your Day

In Invesco, we offer development opportunities that help you thrive as a lifelong learner in a constantly evolving business environment and ensure your constant growth. Our AI enabled learning platform delivers curated content based on your role and interest. We ensure our manager and leaders also have many opportunities to advance their skills and competencies that becomes pivotal in their continuous pursuit of performance excellence.

About Invesco

About Invesco: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/home.html

About our Culture

About our Culture: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/about-us/our-culture.html

About our D&I policy

About our D&I policy: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/our-commitments/diversity-and-inclusion.html

About our CR program

About our CR program: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/our-commitments/corporate-responsibility.html

As one of the world’s leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you're looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.