Vectra® is the leader in AI-driven threat detection and response for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises.
The Vectra AI Platform delivers integrated signal across public cloud, SaaS, identity, and data center networks in a single platform. Powered by patented Attack Signal Intelligence, it empowers security teams to rapidly prioritize, investigate and respond to the most advanced cyber-attacks. With 35 patents in AI-driven threat detection and the most vendor references in MITRE D3FEND, organizations worldwide rely on the Vectra AI to move at the speed and scale of hybrid attackers. For more information, visit www.vectra.ai.
India Site Leader, Head of Engineering, India
Vectra AI is looking for a Director, Engineering to lead our site in India. This role wil manage and lead the engineering teams in India while driving innovation, and ensuring technical strategies align with business goals. As the Head of Engineering in India, you will be responsible for 3 key components: operations, technology and leadership.
Operations
- Responsible for budgets, people development, and operations, including managing and leading teams, coaching and mentoring.
Technology
- Responsible for technical strategy, roadmap planning, and collaboration on product plans.
Leadership
- Responsible for providing vision, leadership, and direction, including collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop technology strategies.
- Recruit and directly manage software development team; initially ~10 application engineers but with the expectation to grow.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Lead the day-to-day operations in India
- Represent Vectra in India for operations, engineering and support.. Build the brand among and attract, develop and retain great employees, who thrive working in innovative, user-focused, fast paced environment.
- Work with product management to help define engineering requirements
- Participate in architecture discussions and guide the technical direction of the team.
- Ensure smooth delivery of software with automated tests in a modern CI toolchain
- Ensure software quality and security through review processes
- Align technical solutions with customer needs and business goals
- Articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and fostering a collaborative environment
- Drive the cost efficiency of the center, maximizing the India team's throughput & productivity and focus on the inclusive culture of the company
- Foster a culture of continuous growth and improvement through coaching, mentoring, feedback and clear measurable outcomes.
- Hold the teams to high standards across multiple disciplines including engineering, support & operations
Attitudes and Behaviors:
- Focus on impact and results; work on the right things and get them done
- Drive and resourcefulness to persevere and overcome obstacles achieving challenging goals
- Exceptional technical judgment. Willingness and ability to take smart risks and fail forward.
- Ability and motivation to roll up the sleeves and dive deep to help the team when needed
- Track record of successfully solving complex and ambiguous problems
- High integrity and ability to positively collaborate with others
Qualifications and Experience
- 10+ years of related industry experience
- 5+ years of technical management experience
- Excellent people, technical and communication skills. Ability to relate across multiple levels and across cultures.
- Business and product mindset. Ability to identify, evaluate and convey engineering and technology choices and trade-offs.
- Ability to understand technology to translate data into key business metrics and decision making.
- BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering
- Experience as a scrum master in an Agile environment
- Understanding of architecture and experience with REST APIs, databases, and other common technologies
- Unix/Linux proficiency
- Experience with a source control system, preferably Git
- Strong cloud knowledge, preferably AWS
Vectra provides a comprehensive total rewards package that supports the financial, physical, mental and overall health of our employees and their families. Compensation includes competitive base pay, incentive plan eligibility, and participation in the employee equity plan (stock options). Specific benefits offered varies by location, but commonly include health care insurance, income protection / life insurance, access to retirement savings plans, behavioral & emotional wellness services, generous time away from work, and a comprehensive employee recognition program.
Vectra is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
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What We Do
Vectra® is the leader in threat detection and response – from cloud and data center workloads to user and IoT devices. Its Cognito® platform accelerates threat detection and investigation using AI to enrich network metadata it collects and stores with the right context to detect, hunt and investigate known and unknown threats in real time. Vectra offers four applications on the Cognito platform to address high-priority use cases. Cognito Stream™ sends security-enriched metadata to data lakes and SIEMs. Cognito Recall™ is a cloud-based application to store and investigate threats in enriched metadata. Cognito Detect™ uses AI to reveal and prioritize hidden and unknown attackers at speed. And Cognito Detect for Office 365 and Azure AD™ finds and stops attacks in enterprise SaaS applications and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. For more information, visit vectra.ai.
