Senior Director, Security Operations at Oracle

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Senior Director, Security Operations — Integrated Security Operations Center Location: Bengaluru, India Experience: Senior leadership Schedule: Core business hours with accountability for a 24x7 global operation About the role We are seeking a strategic, operationally rigorous Senior Director of Security Operations to lead our Integrated Security Operations Center (ISOC) in Bengaluru. You will set the vision, operating model, and performance standards for a high-performing 24x7 security operations function. You will be accountable for the organization’s ability to detect, investigate, contain, and recover from cyber threats—while building a scalable team, mature processes, and strong partnerships across Security, IT, Engineering, Risk, and the business. This role combines executive leadership with operational ownership. You will lead incident response readiness, detection strategy, threat intelligence, automation, and continuous improvement, ensuring security operations are both effective today and prepared for the organization’s future needs. What you’ll do Lead security operations Define and execute the strategy, operating model, and roadmap for the ISOC. Lead a 24x7 security operations team, including managers, analysts, incident responders, and specialized technical resources. Establish clear service levels, escalation paths, quality standards, staffing models, and shift-coverage practices. Ensure timely, consistent, and risk-based triage, investigation, containment, and recovery for security events and incidents. Build a culture of accountability, operational discipline, learning, and continuous improvement. Own incident readiness and response Provide leadership during significant security incidents, coordinating technical, business, legal, communications, and executive stakeholders as needed. Ensure incident response plans, playbooks, exercises, and communications processes are current, tested, and effective. Drive post-incident reviews that result in meaningful improvements to technology, processes, controls, and organizational readiness. Communicate material risks, incident status, and operational performance clearly to senior leadership. Advance detection, intelligence, and automation Set the strategy for detection engineering, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and security automation. Ensure detection coverage is aligned to the threat landscape, critical assets, business priorities, and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK. Oversee the development and tuning of use cases, rules, playbooks, and automation to improve detection quality and reduce response time. Establish metrics for detection efficacy, false-positive rates, incident lifecycle performance, coverage, and operational maturity. Partner with engineering and platform teams to improve telemetry, visibility, and security tooling. Build partnerships and scale capability Partner with IT, Engineering, Cloud, Identity, Legal, Risk, Privacy, and business leaders to integrate security operations into enterprise processes. Manage relationships with security vendors, managed service providers, and other external partners. Lead workforce planning, hiring, development, succession planning, and budget management for the function. Drive major programs such as new tool adoption, SIEM modernization, automation initiatives, cloud-security integration, and security operations maturity assessments. Present strategy, performance, risks, and investment needs to executive leadership. What you’ll bring Significant experience leading security operations, incident response, or cyber defense teams in a complex enterprise environment. Demonstrated success building, scaling, or transforming a security operations center or similar 24x7 function. Deep understanding of incident response, threat detection, SIEM, EDR, identity, cloud security, network security, and security automation. Experience leading high-severity incident response and communicating effectively with executives and cross-fu