Vice President - Cyber Security (Operations)

About the role

We are seeking a forward-thinking Cyber Security Operations Leader to lead and transform EXL's global Cyber Defense Center capabilities across mission-critical Security Operations, Threat Detection, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Digital Forensics, Security Automation, AI Security Monitoring, and Security Operations Assurance.

What you'll do

• Drive established enterprise Incident Response capability, including a dedicated Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) with clearly defined roles
• Develop, maintain, and regularly test comprehensive incident response playbooks covering the full spectrum of attack scenarios: ransomware, BEC, supply chain compromise
• Serve as the executive incident commander during major security incidents (P1/P2), coordinating cross-functional response across Technology, Legal, Communications, HR
• Lead post-incident reviews (PIRs) and blameless retrospectives, ensuring root cause analysis, lessons learned
• Build and maintain a digital forensics capability for conducting investigations across endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, email systems, containers, and mobile devices

What you need

• Incident response
• SIEM
• Cloud security
• EDR
• CISA
• OWASP

Good to have

• ISO 27001
• LLMs
• Root cause analysis
• Machine learning
• CI/CD
• Due diligence