Email Security Architect - SIEM Tools

Description :

- Responsible for architecting and managing the secure email ecosystem, protecting against phishing, spoofing, and malicious payloads.

- The position demands expert-level command over advanced email security controls such as sandboxing, DMARC, threat intelligence integration, and user awareness.

- The individual is expected to drive continuous improvements, incident response handling, and regulatory email security hygiene.

Key Responsibilities :

- Manage and continuously improve Mimecast Email Security implementation to prevent phishing, spoofing, and malware threats targeting users.

- Establish advanced filtering, impersonation protection, and attachment sandboxing policies per risk-based user segmentation.

- Ensure email routing, journaling, and DKIM/DMARC/SPF configurations are aligned with compliance and audit requirements.

- Monitor and resolve advanced email threats, perform RCA on false negatives/positives, and lead remediation for targeted phishing attacks.

- Integrate email security events into SIEM for correlation with identity and endpoint telemetry for improved incident detection.

- Develop reporting templates for weekly threat trends and support governance teams with compliance submissions.

- Provide guidance on BEC protection, email content control, and mailbox behavior analytic.

- Lead simulation testing, phishing campaign exercises, and user awareness metric for ongoing posture improvements.

- Collaborate with IT and IR teams to drive end-to-end containment and recovery of email-borne incidents.

- Define operational baselines, tune policies, and manage esalations from SOC analysts and internal stakeholders.

Key Skills & Certifications :

- 8+ years in email and perimeter security; 4+ years leading Mimecast security operations.

- Advanced knowledge of MIME filtering, encryption, DKIM/DMARC/SPF, sandboxing, and impersonation protection.

- Mimecast Certified Specialist or equivalent certifications preferred.

- Exposure to ISO 27001, RBI/SEBI compliance reporting.

- Strong understanding of mail routing, M365, Exchange Online integration.