Job Title: Deputy Manager | Risk Management | Pune | Cyber Strategy & Transformation
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The team
Deloitte helps organizations prevent cyberattacks and protect valuable assets. We believe in being secure, vigilant, and resilient—not only by looking at how to prevent and respond to attacks, but at how to manage cyber risk in a way that allows you to unleash new opportunities. Embed cyber risk at the start of strategy development for more effective management of information and technology risks
Your work profile
As Deputy Manager in our Cyber Team you’ll build and nurture positive working relationships with teams and clients with the intention to exceed client expectations: -
Key Responsibilities:
· Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) and lead the threat assessment pod, driving end-to-end threat assessment efforts.
· Review, validate, and continuously improve threat models across applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
· Define and refine threat assessment processes, methodologies, and standards in alignment with organizational goals.
· Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and cloud security teams to ensure comprehensive risk coverage.
· Mentor and train threat assessors and other security stakeholders to uplift organizational security maturity.
· Stay abreast of emerging threats, TTPs, and evolving attack surfaces relevant to enterprise systems.
· Recommend and validate implementation of security controls to mitigate identified risks.
· Ensure alignment with compliance and regulatory frameworks such as RBI, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, NIST, and GDPR.
· Integrate and operationalize threat assessment tools such as IriusRisk and ThreatModeler within existing processes.
· Leverage platforms like SIEM, CSPM, and CNAPP to support threat assessment with actionable telemetry and posture management insights.
Desired qualifications
· 5–7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with a minimum of 3+ years focused on threat assessment.
· Deep expertise in threat assessment methodologies such as STRIDE, PASTA, and OCTAVE.
· Strong understanding of security controls across application, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
· Hands-on experience or domain knowledge in the banking or financial services sector is preferred.
· Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, including associated security services.
· Experience with automated threat assessment tools like IriusRisk and ThreatModeler is highly desirable.
· Industry-recognized certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, CCSP, or AWS/Azure Security Specialty are preferred.
· Ability to assess risk, recommend mitigations, and communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure design and development practices throughout the SDLC.
Creative thinking
· Brainstorm with the team to ideate newer ways of representing content in a reader-friendly manner through presentations, infographics, videos, battle cards etc.
· Innovative content creation that captures attention and improves readability
· Ability to work with cross-functional teams, and business, market, and brand leaders within the firm
· Strong interpersonal communication skills
Location and way of working
· Base location: Pune/Bangalore
· Professional is required to work from office
Your role as a Deputy Manager
We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society.
In addition to living our purpose, Deputy Manager across our organization must strive to be:
· Committed to creating purpose - Creating a sense of vision and purpose
· Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity
· Skilled at building diverse capability - Developing diverse capabilities for the future
· Persuasive / Influencing - Persuading and influencing stakeholders
· Collaborating - Partnering to build new solutions
· Delivering value - Showing commercial acumen
· Analytical Acumen - Leveraging data to recommend impactful approach and solutions through the power of analysis and visualization
· Effective communication – Must be well abled to have well-structured and well-articulated conversations to achieve win-win possibilities
· Managing Quality & Risk - Delivering high quality results and mitigating risks with utmost integrity and precision
· Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Applying strategic mindset to solve business issues and complex problems
· Tech Savvy - Leveraging ethical technology practices to deliver high impact for clients and for Deloitte
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