Senior Director, Security Engineering

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Role Summary:

The Sr. Director, Cybersecurity Engineering, Operations, Automation, and AI Enablement will lead an India-based strategic cybersecurity engineering and operations enablement organization responsible for accelerating cybersecurity modernization, improving automation, enabling AI-driven productivity, and providing 24x7 global engineering support.

This leader will report to the U.S.-based Vice President, Cyber Architecture & Engineering and will serve as the senior cybersecurity leadership representative in India for this organization. The Sr. Director will have responsibility for building the team, establishing market leadership presence, creating delivery discipline, partnering across cyber domains, and ensuring India operates as a strategic global capability center rather than a task execution location.

The role requires a leader who can operate across cybersecurity architecture, engineering, operations, automation, AI enablement, talent development, and executive stakeholder management.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership

• •Build and lead the India-based Cybersecurity Engineering, Operations, Automation, and AI Enablement organization.
• •Translate global Cyber Architecture & Engineering strategy into India-based execution plans.
• •Establish India as a strategic cybersecurity modernization and engineering hub.
• •Partner with U.S.-based leadership to shape cyber engineering modernization priorities.
• •Define the organization’s operating model, service catalog, delivery model, and success metrics.
• •Represent the organization in India market leadership forums, technology leadership forums, and senior cybersecurity governance meetings.

Cybersecurity Modernization

• •Lead modernization efforts that improve how cybersecurity capabilities are engineered, supported, measured, and continuously improved.
• •Drive adoption of product-oriented service ownership across security platforms and capabilities.
• •Reduce manual operational friction through workflow redesign, automation, telemetry, and AI-enabled productivity.
• •Improve operating discipline across change management, release management, service health, documentation, and production readiness.

Automation Leadership

• •Establish enterprise cybersecurity automation standards, patterns, and reusable integration approaches.
• •Prioritize automation opportunities across cyber defense, cloud security, endpoint security, data & AI security, Cyber Defense, and application security.
• •Ensure automation is safe, tested, auditable, resilient, and aligned with enterprise change control.
• •Drive automation that reduces cycle time, operational toil, ticket volume, incident response friction, and manual reporting.

AI Enablement

• •Lead AI enablement for cybersecurity teams, including secure AI use cases, prompt libraries, knowledge workflows, reporting automation, summarization, analysis acceleration, and engineering productivity.
• •Partner with Data & AI Security to ensure cybersecurity AI enablement follows approved security, privacy, legal, and risk guardrails.
• •Identify and scale responsible AI use cases across cybersecurity architecture, engineering, operations, risk reporting, incident support, and control management.
• •Ensure human review remains embedded in high-risk or decision-impacting AI workflows.

24x7 Support and Operational Readiness

• •Establish India-based follow-the-sun support for critical cybersecurity platforms, automation workflows, telemetry pipelines, control health monitoring, and incident response engineering needs.
• •Define escalation models, support tiers, handoff procedures, incident engagement rules, and service-level expectations.
• •Partner with SOC, incident response, and cyber defense engineering teams to ensure production support processes are clear and reliable.
• •Improve cyber engineering resilience through operational dashboards, runbooks, service reviews, and post-incident improvement tracking.

People and Market Leadership

• •Lead, mentor, and develop directors, principal engineers, and cybersecurity engineers in India.
• •Build a strong leadership bench and technical talent pipeline.
• •Serve as a visible senior cybersecurity leader in India.
• •Support hiring, retention, succession planning, workforce development, and leadership development.
• •Create a culture of accountability, technical excellence, collaboration, urgency, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Required Experience

• •15+ years of experience in cybersecurity, technology operations, security engineering, infrastructure, automation, cyber defense, or enterprise technology leadership.
• •8+ years leading technical teams, preferably across multiple geographies.
• •Experience building or scaling India-based technology or cybersecurity organizations.
• •Strong understanding of cybersecurity architecture, engineering, operations, cyber defense, cloud, endpoint, infrastructure, IAM, data security, and application security dependencies.
• •Experience with automation, SOAR, API integrations, workflow orchestration, DevSecOps, platform operations, or production support.
• •Experience leading modernization programs in large, regulated global enterprises.
• •Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• •Ability to lead through influence across matrixed organizations.

Preferred Experience

• •Experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical services, financial services, technology, manufacturing, or another regulated industry.
• •Experience with AI-enabled security operations or cybersecurity productivity use cases.
• •Experience with 24x7 or follow-the-sun engineering support models.
• •Experience supporting SOC, incident response, vulnerability management, cloud security, or endpoint security operations.
• •Experience with platforms such as ServiceNow, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike, Wiz, Microsoft Defender, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Tines, Torq, Cortex XSOAR, or similar technologies.
• •Experience establishing product-oriented operating models for cybersecurity services.

Success Measures

• •India organization established with clear structure, roles, operating cadence, and delivery model.
• •24x7 cyber engineering support model implemented for prioritized services.
• •Measurable reduction in manual cybersecurity workflows.
• •Automation roadmap created and delivering measurable outcomes.
• •AI enablement use cases deployed safely across cyber teams.
• •Improved platform health, support readiness, and escalation discipline.
• •Strong dotted-line relationships with cyber domain teams.
• •Improved stakeholder satisfaction from global cyber leaders.
• •Strong leadership bench and engineering talent pipeline in India.
• •Executive-ready metrics showing modernization, automation, AI enablement, risk reduction, and operational health.

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• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information security, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience required.
• Master's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information security, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience preferred.

• 12+ years of experience in security engineering, cybersecurity, information security, cloud security, or a related field required.
• 8+ years of experience in a management capacity required.

Certification in cybersecurity, information security, cloud security preferred.

What Cencora offers

​Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members