NetApp—Cybersecurity Risk Analyst

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Description: Job Summary Cybersecurity Risk Analyst The Cybersecurity Risk Lead is a senior-level individual contributor responsible for helping mature NetApp’s cybersecurity risk management program from a primarily assessment and tracking function into a business decision-enablement capability. This position is based in Bangalore and requires a minimum of three days per week in office. This role will support the identification, assessment, quantification, communication, and monitoring of cybersecurity and AI-related risks across the enterprise. The Cybersecurity Risk Lead will partner with Global Security, Enterprise Risk Management, IT, Product, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Internal Audit, and business stakeholders to ensure risks are consistently evaluated, clearly communicated, appropriately owned, and used to inform business, technology, investment, and governance decisions. This role requires strong cybersecurity risk experience, practical knowledge of AI risk management, and the ability to translate technical risk into business impact. The ideal candidate can help mature risk processes, improve risk reporting, develop meaningful KPIs and KRIs, support annual and event-driven risk assessments, and build influence across the enterprise by making risk information clear, measurable, and actionable for decision-makers. Job Requirements Duties and Responsibilities Lead or support cybersecurity risk assessments across business units, technology environments, products, services, vendors, AI-enabled capabilities, and enterprise initiatives. Support the annual cybersecurity risk assessment process, including scoping, stakeholder engagement, data collection, risk analysis, documentation, reporting, and follow-up on identified risks. Help mature the cybersecurity risk management program by improving risk intake, assessment methodology, scoring, prioritization, exception handling, risk treatment, remediation tracking, and executive reporting. Integrate cybersecurity risk practices with Enterprise Risk Management, IT risk, third-party risk, product security, compliance, internal audit, and business planning processes to improve alignment and consistency. Apply AI risk management concepts and emerging frameworks to support responsible AI adoption, AI-enabled workflows, AI agents, AI tools, and AI-related business or product initiatives. Assist in defining AI risk assessment criteria, including security, privacy, data handling, transparency, accountability, resilience, human oversight, explainability, and regulatory considerations. Lead or support the cybersecurity risk exception process across business units, through scoping, stakeholder engagement, and risk assessments. Establishing and maintaining a risk register and ensuring proper follow-through with stakeholders. Develop and maintain risk metrics, KPIs, KRIs, dashboards, and reporting narratives that help leadership understand risk exposure, business impact, trends, and required decisions. Support risk quantification activities by translating cybersecurity risks into financial, operational, regulatory, customer, reputational, and business-impact terms. Use risk measures to communicate what the risk is, why it matters, what decision is needed, what tradeoffs exist, and what business outcomes may be affected. Partner with business and technical stakeholders to document risk ownership, remediation plans, treatment decisions, compensating controls, escalation paths, and residual risk. Identify gaps in current risk processes, risk data, tooling, metrics, or reporting and recommend practical improvements that increase consistency, transparency, and decision value. Promote broader understanding and adoption of the cybersecurity risk program by helping business stakeholders make more informed, risk-based decisions. At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process. Equal Opportunity Employer: NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification. Why You'll Thrive at NetApp At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure. NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security. Our culture We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do. If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now. Submitting an Application To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application. AI Disclosure For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.