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At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today!\nJob Details\nRole Summary:\nThe Sr. Director, Cybersecurity Engineering, Operations, Automation, and AI Enablement will lead an India-based strategic cybersecurity engineering and operations enablement organization responsible for accelerating cybersecurity modernization, improving automation, enabling AI-driven productivity, and providing 24x7 global engineering support.\nThis leader will report to the U.S.-based Vice President, Cyber Architecture & Engineering and will serve as the senior cybersecurity leadership representative in India for this organization. The Sr. Director will have responsibility for building the team, establishing market leadership presence, creating delivery discipline, partnering across cyber domains, and ensuring India operates as a strategic global capability center rather than a task execution location.\nThe role requires a leader who can operate across cybersecurity architecture, engineering, operations, automation, AI enablement, talent development, and executive stakeholder management.\nKey Responsibilities:\nStrategic Leadership\nBuild and lead the India-based Cybersecurity Engineering, Operations, Automation, and AI Enablement organization.\nTranslate global Cyber Architecture & Engineering strategy into India-based execution plans.\nEstablish India as a strategic cybersecurity modernization and engineering hub.\nPartner with U.S.-based leadership to shape cyber engineering modernization priorities.\nDefine the organization’s operating model, service catalog, delivery model, and success metrics.\nRepresent 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enterprise change control.\nDrive automation that reduces cycle time, operational toil, ticket volume, incident response friction, and manual reporting.\nAI Enablement\nLead AI enablement for cybersecurity teams, including secure AI use cases, prompt libraries, knowledge workflows, reporting automation, summarization, analysis acceleration, and engineering productivity.\nPartner with Data & AI Security to ensure cybersecurity AI enablement follows approved security, privacy, legal, and risk guardrails.\nIdentify and scale responsible AI use cases across cybersecurity architecture, engineering, operations, risk reporting, incident support, and control management.\nEnsure human review remains embedded in high-risk or decision-impacting AI workflows.\n24x7 Support and Operational Readiness\nEstablish India-based follow-the-sun support for critical cybersecurity platforms, automation workflows, telemetry pipelines, control health monitoring, and incident response engineering needs.\nDefine escalation models, support tiers, handoff procedures, incident engagement rules, and service-level expectations.\nPartner with SOC, incident response, and cyber defense engineering teams to ensure production support processes are clear and reliable.\nImprove cyber engineering resilience through operational dashboards, runbooks, service reviews, and post-incident improvement tracking.\nPeople and Market Leadership\nLead, mentor, and develop directors, principal engineers, and cybersecurity engineers in India.\nBuild a strong leadership bench and technical talent pipeline.\nServe as a visible senior cybersecurity leader in India.\nSupport hiring, retention, succession planning, workforce development, and leadership development.\nCreate a culture of accountability, technical excellence, collaboration, urgency, transparency, and continuous improvement.\nRequired Experience\n15+ years of experience in cybersecurity, technology operations, security engineering, infrastructure, automation, cyber defense, or enterprise technology leadership.\n8+ years leading technical teams, preferably across multiple geographies.\nExperience building or scaling India-based technology or cybersecurity organizations.\nStrong understanding of cybersecurity architecture, engineering, operations, cyber defense, cloud, endpoint, infrastructure, IAM, data security, and application security dependencies.\nExperience with automation, SOAR, API integrations, workflow orchestration, DevSecOps, platform operations, or production support.\nExperience leading modernization programs in large, regulated global enterprises.\nStrong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.\nAbility to lead through influence across matrixed organizations.\nPreferred Experience\nExperience in healthcare, pharmaceutical services, financial services, technology, manufacturing, or another regulated industry.\nExperience with AI-enabled security operations or cybersecurity productivity use cases.\nExperience with 24x7 or follow-the-sun engineering support models.\nExperience supporting SOC, incident response, vulnerability management, cloud security, or endpoint security operations.\nExperience with platforms such as ServiceNow, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike, Wiz, Microsoft Defender, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Tines, Torq, Cortex XSOAR, or similar technologies.\nExperience establishing product-oriented operating models for cybersecurity services.\nSuccess Measures\nIndia organization established with clear structure, roles, operating cadence, and delivery model.\n24x7 cyber engineering support model implemented for prioritized services.\nMeasurable reduction in manual cybersecurity workflows.\nAutomation roadmap created and delivering measurable outcomes.\nAI enablement use cases deployed safely across cyber teams.\nImproved platform health, support readiness, and escalation discipline.\nStrong dotted-line relationships with cyber domain teams.\nImproved stakeholder satisfaction from global cyber leaders.\nStrong leadership bench and engineering talent pipeline in India.\nExecutive-ready metrics showing modernization, automation, AI enablement, risk reduction, and operational health.\n.\nBachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information security, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience required.Master's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information security, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience preferred.\n12+ years of experience in security engineering, cybersecurity, information security, cloud security, or a related field required.\n8+ years of experience in a management capacity required.\nCertification in cybersecurity, information security, cloud security preferred.\nWhat Cencora offers\nBenefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.\nFull timeAffiliated Companies\nAffiliated Companies: AmerisourceBergen Services CorporationEqual Employment Opportunity\nCencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.\nThe company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.\nCencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email . We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. 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