# Network Security Senior Manager

**Company**: 3M
**Location**: Hebbal, Bangalore, Karnataka
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159433

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## Description

As a Network Security Senior Manager at 3M, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with innovative 3Mers around the world and make a significant impact on the company's global network security strategy.

You will serve as the global manager for a team of security analysts and engineers supporting IPS/IDS, firewalls, and Network Traffic Analytics.

Key responsibilities include:

- Developing and executing the global network security strategy aligned with enterprise cybersecurity and business objectives

- Providing leadership across Network functions for APAC and the global IT team

- Managing the global team responsible for architecting and deploying Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls

- Leading policy design and optimization leveraging App-ID, User-ID, Content-ID, URL Filtering, Threat Prevention, WildFire, DNS Security, DLP, and best practice security profiles

- Designing and managing HA/cluster configurations, L2/L3 deployments, virtual wire, NAT, zone-based segmentation, and micro-segmentation strategies

- Building Strata Cloud Manager strategy: device-group/template hierarchy, shared policies, configuration governance, commit workflows, and role-based access control

- Managing software license compliance for assigned tools and services

- Defining and maintaining architecture and standards of assigned environments

- Collaborating with architecture and cloud teams on hybrid connectivity, including secure peering, SD-WAN, and cloud firewalling across AWS, Azure, and GCP

- Conducting capacity planning, performance tuning, firmware lifecycle management, and hardware refresh strategy

- Championing security standards and compliance (NIST, ISO 27001, CIS Benchmarks, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, GDPR) and leading audit readiness for network security controls

- Mentoring engineers, reviewing designs and change plans, and contributing to training

- Defining and enforcing configuration baselines using tools like Expedition, BPA (Best Practice Assessment), and IronSkillet; managing exceptions

- Driving network automation initiatives: developing repeatable workflows and infrastructure-as-code for firewall and network configuration using APIs and automation toolchains

The successful candidate will have:

- A Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited institution

- Minimum of 12 years of networking or IT security experience

- Minimum of 1 year of experience with programming or scripting

- Minimum of 5 years of experience in leading/managing teams

- Experience defining and executing enterprise-level cybersecurity strategies

- Experience leading global teams and programs & working in multi-cultural environments

Additional qualifications that could be beneficial include:

- Experience architecting, implementing and managing security technologies

- Strong understanding of network and firewall architecture

- Knowledge of Intrusion Prevention and Detection Systems

- Knowledge of Network Traffic Analytics and Packet Capture Systems

- Experience leading global cybersecurity transformation programs

- Experience managing multimillion-dollar budgets

- Strong executive communication skills

## Skills

### Required
- network security
- cybersecurity
- Palo Alto Networks
- cloud security
- network architecture

### Nice to have
- Intrusion Prevention and Detection Systems
- Network Traffic Analytics
- Packet Capture Systems
- global cybersecurity transformation programs
- budget management
- executive communication skills

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