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Posted 25 August, 2026

Manager - Cyber Security

Lennox International
Chennai,IN,600113 Full Time
Reference: 97_749139_2026-54394

What Drives Success

Key Responsibilities

SOC Leadership

  • Lead enterprise Security Operations Center (SOC) and continuous security monitoring programs.
  • Manage analysts and ensure effective detection, triage, investigation, escalation, and response.
  • Drive operational excellence through process improvements, metrics, governance, and maturity initiatives.
  • Oversee monitoring across cloud, identity, endpoint, network, applications, OT, and SaaS environments.

Incident Response & Crisis Management

  • Lead cyber incident response activities including investigation, containment, eradication, recovery, and lessons learned.
  • Coordinate with IT, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, and Business teams during major incidents.
  • Maintain incident response plans, playbooks, escalation procedures, and conduct tabletop exercises.

SIEM & Detection Engineering

  • Own SIEM operations, administration, governance, and platform optimization.
  • Manage detection use case lifecycle, tuning, validation, and MITRE ATT&CK aligned coverage.
  • Improve visibility through log onboarding, threat intelligence integration, and detection effectiveness programs.

EDR/XDR Operations

  • Oversee enterprise EDR/XDR monitoring, investigations, and response activities.
  • Lead containment actions including endpoint isolation, account suspension, credential resets, malware remediation, and IOC blocking.
  • Ensure endpoint telemetry coverage and continuous enhancement of threat detection capabilities.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

  • Manage enterprise DLP operations across endpoints, email, collaboration platforms, cloud applications, and data repositories.
  • Investigate data protection incidents and drive policy tuning, classification, and governance initiatives.
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory, privacy, and data protection requirements.

Threat Intelligence & Threat Hunting

  • Operationalize threat intelligence into actionable detections and response strategies.
  • Lead proactive threat hunting focused on ransomware, insider threats, identity compromise, cloud attacks, and advanced adversary activity.
  • Convert hunting findings into detections, playbooks, and preventive controls.

AI /Automation & Operational Excellence

  • Drive automation and AI-assisted workflows to improve analyst productivity and response efficiency.
  • Partner with engineering teams to implement SOAR capabilities and reduce MTTD/MTTR.
  • Standardize SOPs, runbooks, quality processes, and operational reporting.

Leadership & Governance

  • Lead, mentor, and develop SOC analysts, incident responders, SIEM engineers, and DLP specialists.
  • Manage cybersecurity vendors, service providers, budgets, and operational performance metrics.
  • Support audits, compliance assessments, executive reporting, and act as the primary escalation point for cyber defense operations.

What We Are Looking For

  • 15+ years of cybersecurity experience.
  • 5+ years managing SOC, Incident Response, or Cyber Defense teams.
  • Experience operating enterprise-scale security monitoring programs.
  • Proven experience handling major cybersecurity incidents.
  • Experience leading security transformation and operational maturity initiatives.
Employment Type: FULL_TIME

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