Senior/Lead - Cybersecurity Defense Analyst

IDEMIA; Dadri; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

IDEMIA is seeking a Senior/Lead Security Analyst to strengthen its Enterprise Cybersecurity team in India. The role emphasizes Security Operations, Vulnerability Management, Compliance, and Governance while guiding a 4–5 person security team and coordinating with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams.

The ideal candidate will have 5–10 years in Enterprise Cybersecurity, strong leadership, and excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in Enterprise Cybersecurity with a focus on operations and governance.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Experience leading security teams and mentoring junior analysts.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day cybersecurity operations.
• Monitor organizational security posture.
• Investigate and respond to security incidents.
• Perform security risk analysis.
• Drive continuous security improvements.
• Coordinate with IT Infrastructure, Cloud, and Application teams.
• Compliance assessments and internal security audits.
• Evidence collection and risk assessments.
• Remediation tracking and executive compliance reporting.
• Lead a team of 4 to 5 Security Analysts; review investigations.
• Allocate daily work and conduct technical mentoring.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities and manage security projects.
• Track deliverables and ensure SLA adherence.

Skills

Security Operations

Vulnerability Management

Compliance

Firewall Security

Patch Management

Incident Response

Security Governance

Leadership

Team mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, IT, or related field

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Senior/Lead Security Analyst to strengthen our Enterprise Cybersecurity team. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Security Operations, Vulnerability Management, Compliance, Firewall Security, Patch Management, Incident Response, and Security Governance.

This role requires an individual capable of independently managing cybersecurity operations while leading a team of security analysts and working closely with infrastructure, cloud, application, and business teams.

Key Responsibilities–

Security Operations

• Manage day-to-day cybersecurity operations.
• Monitor organizational security posture.
• Investigate and respond to security incidents.
• Perform security risk analysis.
• Drive continuous security improvements.
• Coordinate with IT Infrastructure, Cloud, and Application teams.

Responsibilities include:

• Compliance assessments
• Internal security audits
• Evidence collection
• Risk assessments
• Remediation tracking
• Executive compliance reporting

Leadership Responsibilities -

• Lead a team of 4 to 5 Security Analysts
• Review investigation quality
• Allocate daily work
• Conduct technical mentoring
• Coordinate cross-functional activities
• Manage security projects
• Track deliverables
• Ensure SLA adherence
• Drive ownership and accountability

Required Qualifications -

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, IT, or relatedfield.
• 5 to 10 years of experience in Enterprise Cybersecurity.
• Experience leading security teams.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity frameworks.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Security Operations, Vulnerability Management, Network Security, Cloud Security, Infrastructure Security, Compliance.