Security Operations Manager (Chennai)

Job Title: Security Operations Manager Experience: 8-10 years Location: Chennai (Hybrid) About the Company: Our Client is a German-based technology company founded in 2000, offering a high-performance, in-memory, massively parallel processing (MPP) analytics database for data warehousing, business intelligence, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) workloads Role Overview: The Security Operations Manager leads and continuously improves security operations across cloud, infrastructure, endpoints, and SaaS environments, with a robust focus on AWS-based environments, incident response, and regulatory aligned security operations. The role owns day-to-day security operations, major incidents, and security initiatives. This role reports directly to the Information Security Lead and focuses on delivering measurable security improvements through projects, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration. Key Responsibilities: - Improving vulnerability management framework by strengthening triage processes, implementing risk-based prioritization, tracking remediation efforts, and enhancing reporting in line with EU regulatory expectations. - Leading security incident response efforts and serving as the primary escalation point for complex or high-impact incidents, including incident classification, preparation of regulatory notifications, and post-incident reporting aligned with DORA and NIS2 requirements. - Enhancing threat and attack visibility through robust logging, monitoring, and detection capabilities to support regulatory incident reporting timelines. - Driving key security initiatives and programs such as data loss prevention (DLP), penetration testing, and vulnerability remediation to support operational resilience objectives. - Providing strategic technical oversight for the configuration, operation, and continuous improvement of security platforms and tools, including SIEM, EDR/XDR, MDM, and IAM solutions. - Strengthening cloud security, particula .