Cyber Security Engineer

Overview

Design and develop security features, secure coding standards, and security control systems for software, products, and systems. Support OT and industrial environments through secure engineering, testing, incident response, and control effectiveness activities.

What you'll do

• Design and develop security features.
• Ensure secure coding standards and best practices are followed.
• Build prototypes, products and systems suitable for testing.
• Set up and run lab simulations.
• Contribute expertise in secure coding and mobile security, digital certificates, security space access control, fire walls, VPN and vulnerability management.
• Assist in identifying and organizing requirements, and producing specifications.
• Share expertise throughout the organization.
• Provide user training for products.
• Develop secure coding standards and best practices.
• Evaluate engineering approaches and risks to produce development plans that ensure high-quality, low-cost products and systems.
• Author technical reports, papers, articles, patents and presentations.
• Design security control systems to address requirements.
• Participate in security event analysis and incident response.
• Ensure that controls are operating effectively.
• Resolve operating discrepancies.

What you'll need

• 3+ years in OT/industrial support roles in manufacturing, energy, or similarly regulated environments.
• Hands-on experience supporting shop-floor OT systems and endpoints, including SCADA components, industrial PCs, CNC connectivity, PLC/HMI environments.
• Practical understanding of industrial networking concepts, including segmentation, VLANs, firewall change coordination, DHCP/DNS impacts on OT, and common industrial protocols such as OPC/OPC UA and Modbus/EtherNet/IP awareness.
• Working knowledge of OT cybersecurity practices and standards, with direct exposure to IEC 62443 and/or security frameworks applicable to industrial environments.
• Experience operating within formal change management and incident/problem management processes.

Nice to have

• Exposure to NIS-2 compliance activities, including incident readiness, documentation, governance, evidence collection.
• Experience with OT security tooling or patterns, including jump servers, secure remote access, endpoint hardening, application allowlisting, passive OT monitoring.
• Understanding of backup/restore practices for OT systems and configuration management for industrial endpoints.
• IEC 62443 training/certification, GIAC GICSP, CompTIA Security+, Cisco CCNA (industrial/networking relevant), or equivalent.

Details

• Location: Coimbatore, India.