Senior Manager Threat Detection & Response

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Bangalore, Karnataka, India +1

Senior Manager role focused on Threat Detection & Incident Response within Johnson & Johnson's Technology Enterprise Strategy & Security division. The role involves leading cybersecurity efforts, investigating and responding to IT security incidents, managing a team, evaluating tools, and leveraging threat intelligence. While the role uses AI/ML tools for threat detection and requires understanding of ML model behavior, its primary function is cybersecurity operations and incident response, not building AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide domain expertise and participate in performing continuous monitoring of suspicious activity and alerts, triage and diagnosis of threats, and root cause analysis and remediation of incidents.
  2. Collect and analyze electronic devices, logs, malware, and other digital artifacts in support of security investigations and response.
  3. Prepare and present regular reports and updates to senior management on the status and impact of incident response efforts.

Skills

Required

  • Digital forensics tools and techniques
  • Incident response including major incident response leadership
  • Technical writing and communication
  • Cyber defense frameworks (NIST, ISO, CIS)
  • SIEM tools (Splunk, Sentinel)
  • Programming or scripting (PHP, Python, Javascript) including experience with automation platforms, SOAR, and data enrichment pipelines
  • Familiarity with Artificial Intelligence and ML‑based threat detection and automation tools and how to govern their use in a SOC/TDR context
  • Understanding of ML model behavior, false‑positive reduction, and ethical governance
  • Data interpretation and feature‑analysis capabilities for threat‑analytics models

Nice to have

  • Business Process Design
  • Collaborating
  • Crisis Management
  • Critical Thinking
  • Cyber Threat Intelligence
  • Developing Others
  • Inclusive Leadership
  • Information Security Auditing
  • Information Security Management System (ISMS)
  • Information Technology (IT) Security Assessments
  • Information Technology Strategies
  • Leadership
  • Managing Managers
  • People Performance Management
  • Presentation Design
  • Process Optimization
  • Security Architecture Design
  • Security Policies

What the JD emphasized

  • business impacting IT Security incidents
  • critical issues
  • critical metrics