Senior Consultant, Cybersecurity

3 weeks ago


Chennai, India NielsenIQ Full time

Job Description

Senior Consultant, Cybersecurity - SOC , Chennai/Pune India

REFID695328

NielsenIQ is looking to mature our Cybersecurity Program. To support that effort, we are looking for an experienced Cyber Threat Security Operations Senior Consultant who will be responsible for the operational aspects of the program across all geographies and business units. This Senior Consultant will be responsible for developing and enhancing our current Global Cyber Threat Security Operations. This key role requires experience in security monitoring, investigations, attack simulation and the ability to resolve threats within the environment. In addition will assist with the Incident Response team in resolving security incidents. The candidate is expected to provide recommendations in tuning optimization of security systems, Cyber Threat Security Operations processes, procedures, and policies. The Senior Consultant will have overall accountability for investigating and resolving cyber threat detections.

This position interacts with a wide range of stakeholders both within Cybersecurity, Technology and with cross-functional teams, including legal, HR, and product teams. This role has a high impact across the enterprise, and the selected candidate will engage with security, technology, and certain business units to affect change. 

Responsibilities

Collaborate with the team to mature the people, process, and technologies present in a 24x7 global cyber threat security operations center.  Collaborate with stakeholders such as cyber engineers to support larger security initiatives, assessments, and resilience testing.  Develop a Global Cyber Threat Security Operations framework ensuring continuous maturity.  Develop custom Cyber threat detection signatures.  Develop phishing attack simulations to be administered globally.  Assist Vulnerability Threat Management with identifying and mitigating vulnerable assets  Utilize intel reports to hunt for vulnerable assets within the environment.  Define and maintain dashboards and metrics that support Incident Response Program and Cyber Threat Security Operations maturity efforts.  Foresees and anticipates issues and delays that may occur during the program or programs and puts contingency plans in place as appropriate.  Continually seek opportunities and recommend improvements to project delivery practices and processes for both Cyber Threat Security Operations and Incident Response program.  To develop operational procedures which then ensure that all cyber-attacks are minimized, mitigated against, hidden or dynamic.  To ensure that cyber-attack surfaces should be relatively small-in-size, covertly stored, so that they are stealth in moving towards threat targets and difficult for Cyber Threats to detect and penetrate.  All cyber-attacks are aggressively detected, mitigated, and countered using countermeasures like Moving-Target Defenses (MTD). 

Qualifications

Strong leadership, technical and high emotional intelligence demonstrated engagement in security conferences, training, learning, associations is highly desired and fully supported  Self-starter, technology and security hobbyist, enthusiast  Desire to create change and move the needle along with the ability to execute with discipline  Relentless focus on security, fearless to challenge the status quo (diplomatically)  Able to operate in a fast-paced environment with significant ambiguity  2-5 years relevant experience preferably in a highly technical or SOC role  Good understanding of cybersecurity incident response, network security, and endpoint monitoring  Good understanding of Cybersecurity prevention, detection, and response capabilities such as, but not limited to: AV, EDR, SIEM, digital forensics suites, IPS, and WAF  Experience in delivering technical solutions from concept, selection, installation, testing and implementation  Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills as well as interpersonal skills to interact with customers, team members, and upper management  Experience implementing operational plans  Experience with Information Security principles, practices, technologies, programs and procedures, accompanied by an understanding of risk management methodologies 

Additional Information

Enjoy a flexible and rewarding work environment with peer-to-peer recognition platforms.  Recharge and revitalize with help of wellness plans made for you and your family.  Plan your future with financial wellness tools.  Stay relevant and upskill yourself with career development opportunities

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

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