Senior Manager, Cyber Security and Operations

About Vanguard
Founded in 1975, Vanguard is one of the world's leading investment management companies. The firm offers investments, advice, and retirement services to tens of millions of individual investors around the globe—directly, through workplace plans, and through financial intermediaries.

Vanguard’s India Office

Vanguard’s office in India is a significant milestone in our global expansion. We are committed to establishing an enduring technology center in Hyderabad, Telangana and are excited to be adding talent who will focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), mobile, and cloud-based technologies that drive our business outcomes and deliver a world-class experience for our clients.

Role Summary

The Senior Manager, Cyber Security and Operations role leads, directs, and manages multiple teams providing technical support in protecting Vanguard's digital assets from all internal and external threats, overseeing cyber threat management, incident response, cybersecurity operations, and mitigation via cloud-based controls. The role also designs and tests secure systems, conducts audits, manages intrusion detection, and implements disaster recovery strategies to enhance infrastructure and information security.

Responsibilites
1. Hires, evaluates, and supervises crew. Provides guidance and training as necessary to develop crew. Sets performance standards, reviews performance, and makes informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures.
2. Oversees and manages the development and delivery of IT security standards and best practices. Oversees incident investigations and advanced incident handling scenarios, including internal and external data breaches, abnormal network and host activity, and risk assessment derived from platforms or data-lakes. Ensures infrastructure devices are securely configured, known vulnerabilities are reported and suspicious activities are detected, investigated and properly dispositioned.
3. Serves as a leader, mentor, and subject matter resource for senior leaders. Divides and assigns workload and resolves complex ticket issues escalated by direct reports.
4. Designs and implements cyber security and operations procedures, and oversees a monitoring environment that aggregates and correlates security events from infrastructure devices and generates alerts for known or suspicious activities. Monitors the effectiveness of platform configuration and deployment controls and evaluates consistency of deployment of approved security baseline configuration standards. Identifies process gaps and recommends solutions to improve workflow and mitigate risk.
5. Oversees application development, database design, network and/or platform (operating system) efforts, and ensures security project teams comply with enterprise and IT security policies, and industry regulations.
6. Identifies known security vulnerabilities within the IT computing, cyber, and cloud infrastructure and provides current state and trending reports to key stakeholders. Develops and presents current state and trending reports for configuration compliance and known security vulnerabilities.
7. Provides additional security related services within enterprise-wide processes to reduce risk. Acts as a key stakeholder for IT governance teams where appropriate.
8. Oversees and leads multiple cross functional teams to address critical security risks to the business. Ensures that security risk related issues are appropriately addressed within the IT environment. Collaborates with key partners.
9. Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
10. Designs and tests secure systems, networks, and databases to protect infrastructure and sensitive information from cyber threats.
11. Conducts regular password audits, manages virus protection measures, and oversees robust intrusion detection systems.
12. Performs risk audits and delivers actionable recommendations for infrastructure and application security enhancements.
13. Implements and maintains disaster recovery and backup security strategies to support business continuity.

Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum 12 years of experience in cybersecurity operations or information security management, including at least 3 years in a senior leadership role.
• Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech) in relevant fields such as Computer Science, IT, Cybersecurity, or Information Systems, or a Master’s degree/Diploma in Information Security or Network Security.
• Solid experience with cyber threat management, secure infrastructure configuration, cloud security (AWS, Azure), and incident response frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with risk assessment, network forensics, penetration testing, and mitigation strategies.
• Strong command of SIEM platforms, vulnerability scanning tools, and threat detection systems (e.g., Splunk, QRadar, Tenable, Qualys).
• Proficiency in using JIRA, HP ALM, or TestRail for issue tracking and in managing Agile/Scrum-based projects with CI/CD integration.

Location

This role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard’s India office. Only qualified external applicants will be considered.

Our mission

Vanguard adheres to a simple purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

Our commitment to you

Vanguard takes the same long-term view of your success—at work and in life—with Benefits and Rewards packages that reflect what you care about, throughout all the phases and stages of your life. Our Total Rewards programs provide you and your loved ones with wellness support for key areas in your life:

Financial wellness
We're committed to enabling your financial success and provide competitive offers and programs.

Physical wellness
We're committed to providing benefits that support your physical health and wellness.

Personal wellness
We're committed to providing resources that help support the full scope of your life.

How we work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for most of our employees (crew members), designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.