Security Engineer

Overview

Security Engineer role at Capco strengthening the security of complex defence programmes by combining threat modelling, security architecture and hands-on engineering with delivery teams.

What you'll do

• Build and improve shared security foundations, tools, and patterns that teams can use across applications and services.
• Help product and engineering teams design, build, and operate secure applications.
• Lead threat-modelling sessions to identify threats, attack paths, and mitigations early in the development process.
• Review application and system designs, then give teams clear, actionable security guidance.
• Develop secure-by-default patterns for identity and access, data protection, secrets management, logging, and network controls.
• Help integrate security checks into development workflows and support teams in resolving findings.
• Create practical security guidance and reusable components that make secure development easier.
• Work with engineering and programme teams to understand defence requirements and apply them to system design.
• Mentor engineers and promote consistent application security practices.

What you'll need

• Significant experience in security engineering, application security, or a related technical role.
• Hands-on experience threat modelling applications or systems and helping teams act on the results.
• Strong understanding of secure software design, common application vulnerabilities, identity, encryption, and APIs.
• Experience building security tooling, reusable components, developer guidance, or platform capabilities.
• Ability to work collaboratively with developers and explain security decisions in practical terms.

Nice to have

• Strong network security knowledge, including network architecture, segmentation, firewalls, and secure communications.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.