Lead Cyber Security Research Engineer - Purple Team

Overview

Lead Information Security Engineer role focused on incident response, security engineering consulting, and leading a team to achieve security objectives.

What you'll do

• Lead computer security incident response activities for highly complex events.
• Conduct technical investigation of security related incidents and post incident digital forensics to identify causes and recommend future mitigation strategies.
• Provide security consulting on large projects for internal clients to ensure conformity with corporate information, security policy, and standards.
• Design, document, test, maintain, and provide issue resolution recommendations for highly complex security solutions related to networking, cryptography, cloud, authentication and directory services, email, internet, applications, and endpoint security.
• Review and correlate security logs.
• Utilize subject matter knowledge in industry leading security solutions and best practices to implement one or more components of information security such as availability, integrity, confidentiality, risk management, threat identification, modeling, monitoring, incident response, access management, and business continuity.
• Identify security vulnerabilities and issues, perform risk assessments, and evaluate remediation alternatives.
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including managers.
• Lead a team to achieve objectives.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of Information Security Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

Nice to have

• 5+ years of experience planning, executing, and documenting adversary emulation and detection testing using industry-standard technologies.
• 5+ years of experience working in Red Team, Purple Team, Blue Team Assessments, or offensive security research capacities.
• Experience in Malware analysis, reverse engineering and SIEM tools.
• 5+ years of experience managing cyber-attack detection, investigation, and intelligence strategies.
• Strong experience in one or more of the following security disciplines: information security monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, host/network forensics, cyber-crime investigation, penetration testing, business continuity, or cyber threat intelligence.
• Knowledge and understanding of banking or financial services industry.
• Certifications in one or more of the following: Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), Offensive Security Wireless Professional (OSWP), Offensive Security Certified Expert (OSCE), Offensive Security Exploitation Expert (OSEE), or Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE).
• Experience conducting project meetings, presentations, and status reporting.
• Knowledge and understanding of data security controls and bypasses including malware protection, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, content filtering, Internet proxies, encryption controls, and log management solutions.
• Knowledge of offensive security, with the ability to think like an adversary when hunting and responding to security events.
• Experience with multiple operating systems to include Windows, Mac OS, and Unix/Linux.
• Strong offensive coding experience in multiple programming languages, such as Go, .Net languages, C++, python or others.
• Strong tooling experience in adversarial emulation tools, including C2 and exploitation frameworks.

Details

• Job location: Bangalore / Hyderabad.
• Posting end date: 25 Nov 2026.