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Security Consultant - GRC

IBM

5 - 10 years

Mumbai

Posted: 18/05/2026

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Job Description

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

SOC Governance & Performance Management:

  • Define & update security policies & procedures
  • SCDs review and update
  • NIST Framework Adoption & Alignment
  • Unified Compliance Framework
  • Configuration Review, Firewall, WAF, Proxy, NAC review as per SOP
  • Automate policy management
  • Evaluate risk management solutions
  • Change Management Review, SLAs reporting
  • Track, follow up and mitigate audit findings & regulatory observations, Root Cause Analysis.
  • Ensure adherence to RBI, IRDAI, UIDAI, ISO 27001, IT Act 2000, NPCI, PCI-DSS, DPDPA
  • Maintain documentation for regulatory audits, Continuous compliance monitoring & control testing
  • Report cybersecurity posture to leadership & KRI & KPI dashboarding & reporting
  • Tracking & follow-up on Exceptions Review (Change Request)
  • Maintain risk acceptance tracker (Change Management Request)
  • Create and maintain risk register (Cybersecurity domain)
  • SOC Compliance & Audit:
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for all internal and external audits related to SOC operations and tools.
  • Ensure SOC processes and documentation meet the requirements of relevant frameworks and standards such as NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2.
  • Manage the evidence collection process for audits, ensuring timely and accurate responses to auditor requests.

Security Tool Governance:

  • Govern the lifecycle of SOC tools (Firewall, WAF, Proxy, NAC), including policy configuration, user access reviews, and license management.
  • Ensure that detection content (rules, alerts, playbooks) is documented, updated, and aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

Strategic Reporting & Communication:

  • Prepare and present monthly and quarterly SOC performance and risk reports to senior
  • Translate technical SOC metrics into business-centric risk and impact language for non-technical stakeholders.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Required Professional and Technical Expertise*

 

Required: 6+ years of experience in information security, with at least 5 years in a IT GRC, IT security auditing.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Preferred: At Least one Relevant certification require:
• CRISC- Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control
• CGRC- Certified in Governance, Risk & Compliance
• GIAC GSEC (Security Essentials) or GCIH (Incident Handler)
• Experience with GRC platforms (e.g., ServiceNow IRC, RSA Archer).

Years of Experience:
6 - 8

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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About Company

IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is a leading global technology and consulting company, headquartered in Armonk, New York. With over a century of innovation, IBM provides a wide range of technology solutions and professional services. The company specializes in cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, quantum computing, and cybersecurity, helping organizations digitally transform their operations. IBM’s flagship AI platform, Watson, and its hybrid cloud capabilities are widely used across industries such as healthcare, finance, government, and manufacturing. IBM is known for its strong commitment to research and development, and it consistently ranks among the top organizations for U.S. patents.

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