Senior Cybersecurity Engineer – Security Engineering

Overview

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer in Security Engineering, responsible for engineering, integrating and operating enterprise security tools and providing senior technical leadership to the security engineering function.

What you'll do

• Engineer, integrate, and operate a wide range of security tools across endpoint, identity, cloud, network, and application domains.
• Support platforms including EDR/XDR, SIEM, vulnerability and exposure management, cloud security, identity security, email security, and network security.
• Ensure security tools are correctly configured, stable, and integrated with SOC and IT workflows.
• Design and maintain integrations between security tools (e.g., SIEM, EDR, vulnerability management, identity, cloud).
• Improve data quality, enrichment, correlation, and response consistency across platforms.
• Partner with Security Operations to ensure alerts and escalations are actionable and reliable.
• Develop and maintain engineering standards, configuration guidance, and operational playbooks.
• Identify systemic gaps and propose practical engineering solutions.
• Create documentation that enables scale and repeatability.
• Provide senior-level technical support for complex incidents and escalations.
• Assist with root-cause analysis and lessons learned.
• Participate in on-call or escalation rotations as needed.
• Provide operational guidance to and oversight of managed server provider technicians.
• Drive continuous improvement through tuning, automation, and simplification.
• Evaluate new tools and features and assess fit within the environment.
• Contribute to defining the security engineering roadmap.
• Act as a senior technical resource and mentor.
• Influence engineering direction without formal people management responsibilities.
• Serve as a stabilizing technical presence as the team grows.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of cybersecurity experience across multiple security domains or tools.
• Hands-on experience engineering and operating enterprise security platforms.
• Strong understanding of security operations and incident response workflows.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous or early-stage environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience building or modernizing a security engineering function.
• Automation or scripting experience (PowerShell, Python, APIs).
• Experience with SOAR or security automation platforms.
• Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Relevant industry certifications (CISSP, GIAC, cloud security).

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.
• Work mode: Hybrid.
• Participation in on-call or escalation rotations as needed.