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Vodafone Idea - Head - Cyber Defense & Incident Response

Vodafone Idea Limited
18 - 25 Years
Mumbai

Posted on: 14/08/2026

Job Description

Role : Head - Cyber Defense & Incident Response (M4)

Role Contour : Responsible for detection, triage, analysis, response and recovery from suspicious events and security incidents to maintain appropriate intelligence posture for VIL.

Accountability:

- Overseeing monitoring and co-relation of log events across IT infrastructure including security devices, network devices, applications, operating systems etc.

- Designing standard response procedures for security incidents, ensuring post-review of priority 1 and 2 incidents, following defined escalation path when needed, as defined in the escalation policy, etc.

- Performing blue team/red team exercises.

- Accountable to keep in pace with external threat intelligence and sharing leads with the architecture team for developing strategy and procuring security solutions to address the gap.

- Ensuring response to and recovery from security incidents, performing problem management, root cause analysis, developing after action reports for high-profile, high-impact incidents, sharing timely communication with relevant stakeholders and follow-up through closure of gaps and inconsistencies.

- Performing forensic analysis and supporting investigations (includes interfaces with law enforcement).

- Conducting hackathons/ bug bounty programmes to identify potential gaps in information security architecture; working closely with Anticipatory Security Architecture team for closure of those gaps.

- Leading and managing threat intel activities to ensure appropriate intelligence posture for future incidents.

- Creation & maintenance of relevant SOPs, protocols, policies and other internal documents; ensuring these are reviewed and updated on a timely basis and appropriate information is shared with relevant stakeholders in a timely manner.

- Compliance to all applicable regulatory and law enforcements/requirements, managing all the information.

- Managing the interaction with DOT/NCIIPC/CERT-in etc for intel advisory and Incident response related activities.

Experience & Qualifications :

- 20+ years exposure working in IT & Security, with minimum of 8 to 10 years in IT Security Management.

- Strong in Governance, Partner Engagement, team handling.

- Bachelors degree in Engineering, Cyber Security or related field.

- Certifications: CISSP/CCSP/CISA/CISM.

Dimensions :

- % adherence to SLA for resolving incidents based on incident categorization 99%.

- Number of cyber drills participated in and the ability to identify all test cases Twice in Year.

Technical Competencies :

- Understanding of Network and System administration.

- Building logic and algorithms.

- Understating of SIEM & other security tools like AV, DLP, EDR, Proxy etc.

- Understanding security systems & appliance like NIPS, DODOS, Firewall.

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