Director / Associate Director - Cyber Defence & Threat Intelligence

About the company
Upstox is one of India's leading Fin-Tech companies with a mission to simplify trading & investing to make it easily accessible to the masses. We aim to enable everyone, from new investors to seasoned traders, to invest across multiple categories with our state-of-the-art trade & investment platform and commission-free pricing. We offer numerous asset categories to invest in, like Stocks, Digital Gold, IPOs, Mutual Funds, and more. 
Our mission is simple - to break down the complexities of investing and make it more effortless, accessible, affordable, and easy for the masses to adopt. This key principle when infused with intuitive design and leading-edge technology will help us empower every Indian to take control of their investments.
We are looking for a self-drive professional for leading our cyber defence and threat intelligence team. In this role, you will be hiring, training, solutioning, and leading the cyber defence and threat intelligence team. This involves setting up a robust Security Operations Centre (SOC) with capabilities to monitor, detect, protect and respond to threats in an effective and timely manner.  You will also be expected to build a lean team and leverage automation capabilities to detect and protect Upstox environment and data.
Roles & Responsibilities:
-Manage & develop a team of committed professionals to be part of the cyber defence and threat intelligence team at Upstox. -Engage with the leadership team in providing direction and roadmap to improve the monitoring, detection, protection and response capabilities. -Engage with cross functional teams (product / engineering / IT) for building the cyber defence capabilities. -Build an effective, scalable, and robust cyber defence framework that is operable in an heterogeneous environment (cloud and enterprise data centre).-Develop actionable dashboard and metrics highlighting the key trends to the leadership team-Analyse and integrate latest security trends, publications, and researches pertaining to defending against cyber attacks. -Ensure adequate compliance to regulatory laws and best practices around information security-Build a collaborative, happy, & growth environment for team members.
Experience Required:
-10+ Years of experience in working and leading SOC. -Excellent understanding and working knowledge in AWS-Prior experience in building or managing SOC for cloud native environments. -Hands on experience in setting up monitoring solutions for K8s & containerized environments. -Hands on experience in implementing open source solutions for cloud monitoring.-Experienced in defining & establishing standard operating procedures for SOC.-Minimum 5 years of experience in managing teams. 
Good To Have:-Minimum 3 years of experience in FINTECH.-Hands-on experience in scripting languages such as python.
Psst… tips on how you can beat the competition: If you can showcase your abilities to:    -Be self-driven / quick starter-Have an ownership mindset-Aggressively drive and deliver results
If you fit the above description, we would love to connect with you! APPLY NOW
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Upstox is an Equal Opportunity Employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.