Incident Response - AVP

About Us:

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the worlds leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with over 2,100 locations in more than 50 markets. The Group has over 160,000 employees and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.

The Group aims to be the worlds most trusted financial group through close collaboration among our operating companies and flexibly respond to all of the financial needs of our customers, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. MUFGs shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York stock exchanges.

MUFG Bank, Ltd. is Japans premier bank, with a global network spanning more than 50 markets. Outside of Japan, the bank offers an extensive scope of commercial and investment banking products and services to businesses, governments and individuals worldwide.

In Asia, MUFG has a presence across 20 markets Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

It has also formed strategic partnerships with some of the most prominent banks in Southeast Asia, further augmenting its unrivalled network across the region VietinBank in Vietnam, Krungsri in Thailand, Security Bank in the Philippines and Bank Danamon in Indonesia.

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MUFG Global Service Private Limited:

Established in 2020, MUFG Global Service Private Limited (MGS) is 100% subsidiary of MUFG having offices in Bengaluru and Mumbai. MGS India has been set up as a Global Capability Centre / Centre of Excellence to provide support services across various functions such as IT, KYC/ AML, Credit, Operations etc. to MUFG Bank offices globally. MGS India has plans to significantly ramp-up its growth over the next 18-24 months while servicing MUFGs global network across Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific

About the Role:

Position Title: Incident Response, Assistant Vice President

Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President

Internal Title: Assistance Vice President

Location: Bengaluru

Job Profile:

Position details:

In this role you will focus on researching potential cybersecurity threats to various systems, technologies, operations, and programs throughout multiple environments. You will perform analysis based on this research to determine the risk to the organization and take appropriate actions based upon that analysis. Responsibilities include rapidly responding to potential incidents and events to minimize risk exposure and ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of assets and business processes.

Additionally, you will seek opportunities to strengthen remediation capabilities, reduce response times for incidents, and produce analyses of cybersecurity events that include perspectives on the behavior of adversaries.

Key Responsibilities:

• Operate within the Incident Response (IR) function, reporting to the Incident Response Lead.
• Lead investigations and response activities for security incidents, ensuring timely analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Lead low to high severity security incidents that do not require crisis management escalation.
• Escalate significant, business-impacting, or crisis-level incidents to the Incident Response Lead and support broader response coordination activities.
• Coordinate response actions across cybersecurity, infrastructure, application, and business teams to facilitate effective incident resolution.
• Conduct forensic and log analysis to determine incident scope, root cause, and business impact.
• Escalate significant incidents to IR leadership and assist in coordinating response activities.
• Prepare incident reports and technical summaries for management and relevant stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of incident response playbooks, procedures, and documentation.
• Participate in post-incident reviews and support implementation of lessons learned.
• Manage the operational activities and performance of assigned junior incident response personnel, providing mentoring, guidance, and oversight during security investigations.
• Support compliance with internal policies, regulatory obligations, and industry standards.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and provide out-of-hours support when required.

Skills and Experience:

Equal Opportunity Employer:

The MUFG Group is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, national origin, physical appearance, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other protected status of an individual or that individual's associates or relatives, or any other classification protected by the applicable laws.

• Minimum 8+ years of dedicated experience in a SOC Analyst or Incident Response role within an established SOC environment
• Experience investigating security incidents within enterprise environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Practical experience using SIEM and EDR platforms.
• Understanding of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (MITRE ATT&CK).
• Familiarity with incident response frameworks such as NIST and SANS.
• Experience performing network and endpoint investigations.
• Strong understanding of security controls and mitigation techniques.
• Familiarity with query languages such as Splunk SPL or CrowdStrike Query Language.
• Ability to communicate technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Relevant certifications such as GCIH, CySA+, GCFA, or equivalent is desirable.