Senior Principal Specialist

Solenis is a leading global provider of water and hygiene solutions. The company’s product portfolio includes a broad array of water treatment chemistries, process aids, functional additives, cleaners, disinfectants, and state-of-the-art monitoring, control and delivery systems. These technologies are used by customers to improve operational efficiencies, enhance product quality, protect plant assets, minimize environmental impact, and create cleaner and safer environments. Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, the company has 70 manufacturing facilities strategically located around the globe and employs a team of over 16,500 professionals in 130 countries across six continents. Solenis is a 2025 Best Managed Company Gold Standard honoree. For more information about Solenis, please visit www.solenis.com.

At our Global Excellence Center (GEC) in Hyderabad, we support Solenis’ global operations by driving excellence in IT, analytics, finance, and other critical business functions. Located in the heart of the IT hub, the GEC offers a dynamic work environment with strong career development opportunities in a rapidly growing yet stable organization. Employees benefit from world-class infrastructure, including an on-campus gym, recreation facilities, creche services, and convenient access to public transport.

For more information about Solenis, please visit www.solenis.com.

🚨 We're Hiring: Senior Principal Specialist - Cyber Security

📍 Location: Hyderabad India – Hybrid
🕒 Full-Time | Permanent Position

About the role:

The Cybersecurity Operations Team Lead leads a 24/7 SOC team protecting Solenis's people, assets and reputation. Leads, guides and directs daily SOC operations; in partnership with the Cybersecurity Analyst Team Lead, the Cybersecurity Operations Team Lead develops, implements and supports global security operations, data center security, and crisis management initiatives, processes and best practices to support strategic goals and drive performance metrics. Monitors events that have the potential to compromise the safety and security of Solenis’s personnel, offices, data centers, and corporate locations. Provides support to business partners and manages the escalation and communication of security issues to both field and HQ leadership. In coordination with the Director of Cybersecurity, supports the cross-organizational crisis management team in situations when the SOC activates its Incident Command capabilities

The Cybersecurity Operations Team Lead must be a highly skilled and technical individual who is able to strategically guide program direction, provide reports and metrics, and manage a team. Implements and executes the corporate strategy for information security and technology resilience across the globe to ensure business objectives are met and risk is minimized and maintained within acceptable levels.

Key Accountabilities/Essential Functions of the Job

SOC Design & Strategy:

• Architect and implement enterprise-grade SOC solutions, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, threat intelligence platforms, and log management.
• Define and execute the SOC roadmap aligned with business and risk management goals.
• Drive the selection and integration of security technologies, optimizing toolsets for performance and coverage.

Leadership & Operational Oversight:

• Lead a team of Tier 1–3 analysts and incident responders, including training, mentoring, and performance oversight.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex security incidents, ensuring effective triage, investigation, containment, and recovery.
• Continuously enhance SOC maturity through gap analysis, playbook development, and operational best practices (MITRE ATT\&CK, NIST, etc.).

Threat Detection & Response:

• Lead the integration and operationalization of AI platforms, to enhance alert triage, investigation, and automated decision-making.
• Lead advanced threat detection initiatives using behavior analytics, threat intelligence, and machine learning-driven platforms.
• Develop, tune, and maintain detection rules, correlation logic, and automated response playbooks.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting to identify anomalous activity and unknown threats.

Collaboration & Communication:

• Collaborate with IT, Network, Cloud, and Application teams to ensure secure architecture and incident readiness.
• Prepare and present executive-level dashboards, risk assessments, and incident reports.
• Participate in and lead security tabletop exercises, red/blue/purple team engagements, and post-mortem reviews.

Compliance & Risk Management:

• Support compliance initiatives (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, GDPR) through monitoring, evidence collection, and audit readiness.
• Implement and refine SOC KPIs, SLAs, and metrics.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation:

• Stay abreast of evolving threat landscapes, attack vectors, and security trends.
• Recommend and implement automation opportunities to reduce analyst fatigue and increase SOC efficiency.
• Evaluate and pilot emerging technologies and techniques to maintain a cutting-edge SOC environment.

Requirements:

• Strong organization/project management skills. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple assignments/projects, timelines and to identify project interdependencies, resource needs, potential risks/pitfalls and mitigation plans. Recognized as an integrator and solution provider.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and confidentiality in handling information and issues that arise while staying within defined policies and practices
• Possess solid teamwork capabilities and when needed, scales in support of unforeseen assignments and tasks through demonstration of personal initiative.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Demonstrated experience in preparing and delivering presentations that convey key concepts and outline recommendations to various levels of management.
• International, global experience preferred.
• Research and assess emerging threats, technologies (e.g., AI security, quantum computing risks)

Some benefits of working with us

• Access to a huge array of internal and external training courses on our learning system (free)
• Access to self-paced language training (free)
• Birthday or wedding anniversary gift of INR 1500
• Charity work once a year, to give back to the community
• Company car, phone if required for role
• Competitive health and wellness benefit plan
• Continuous professional development with numerous opportunities for growth
• Creche facility
• Employee Business Resource Groups (EBRGs)
• Electric car charging stations
• Hybrid work arrangement eg. 3 days in office
• Internet allowance
• No-meeting Fridays
• Parking on site (free)
• Relocation assistance available
• Staff hangout spaces, enjoy games like carrom, chess
• Transport by cab if working the midnight – 7am shift
• Well connected to public transport, only a 10 min walk to office

About Us

At Solenis, We understand that candidates will not meet every single desired job requirement.  If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you. At Solenis, we understand that our greatest asset is our people. That is why we offer competitive compensation, and numerous opportunities for professional growth and development. So, if you are interested in working for a world-class company and enjoy solving complex challenges, consider joining our team.

Solenis is constantly growing.  Come and grow your career with us.

Solenis is an Equal Opportunity Employer.