As an Engineer – Cyber Security within the Managed Services team, you will play a pivotal role in safeguarding client infrastructure and data. You will be responsible for proactively identifying threats, managing security tools, conducting security assessments, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and cybersecurity best practices. Your role includes advising clients, mentoring junior engineers, and working closely with SOC analysts, infrastructure teams, and client stakeholders to maintain robust and secure environments.
This role is ideal for professionals with a deep and broad understanding of enterprise security tools and practices, particularly in multi-tenant, cloud, and hybrid environments. Your efforts will directly support continuous protection and resilience of mission-critical systems.
JOB SPECIFIC DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Act as one of the trusted security advisors within the Managed Services team, providing expert guidance on threat mitigation, policy enforcement, and security architecture reviews.
- Collaborate with SOC, DevOps, Network, and Infrastructure teams to strengthen security controls, reduce risk exposure, and improve detection and response capabilities.
- Conduct cybersecurity gap and maturity assessments tailored to client environments, aligned with industry frameworks, and develop prioritized remediation roadmaps based on business risk.
- Support client teams in operationalizing security processes and controls by helping design, implement, and embed practices, and risk treatment workflows when gaps or misalignments are identified during assessments.
- Manage, tune, and optimize security tooling across client environments, including SIEM (e.g., Microsoft Sentinel, Rapid7 InsightIDR), XDR/EDR (e.g., Microsoft Defender XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne), firewalls, VPNs, and DLP solutions.
- Lead security incident response activities, including triage, investigation, containment, remediation, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
- Support client audits and compliance initiatives, including ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and other regulatory or contractual security requirements.
- Mentor junior security engineers and contribute to internal security process documentation and playbooks.
- Assist teams to monitor and investigate security alerts, events, and logs using SIEM, XDR, and threat intelligence platforms to identify and respond to potential threats.
- Participate in client meetings and recurring service reviews to communicate security posture, key metrics, incidents, and continuous improvement initiatives.
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS
Technical Competencies:
- Solid understanding of industry standards and frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC2, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CIS Critical Security Controls, MITRE ATT&CK etc.
- In-depth knowledge of cybersecurity fundamentals and processes, paired with a solid understanding of organizational IT processes.
- Working knowledge of network security concepts, secure configuration processes, and common risk management concepts.
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity concepts such as zero trust, identity & access management, and vulnerability management principles etc.
- Knowledge & experience on public cloud services and security (AWS and Azure preferred) is highly preferred.
- Experience with configuration and management of EDR/XDR, SIEM, vulnerability management, and endpoint management tools.
- Experience with Microsoft security suite (Microsoft Defender XDR, Intune, Sentinel, and Purview).
- Proficiency with scripting or automation (Python, PowerShell, or Bash) for security and day-to-day IT operations tasks.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management capabilities
Qualifications:
- 2-3 years of experience in cyber security roles, preferably in a Managed Services environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
Desirable :
Any of the following certifications would be an advantage
- Security: CompTIA Security+, ISC2 SSCP, eJPT, HTB CPTS
- Microsoft 365: Identity and Access Administrator Associate, Security Operations Analyst Associate, Information Security Administrator Associate
- Cloud: AWS Solutions Associate Architect, Azure Administrator Associate, AWS Security Specialty, Azure Security Engineer Associate
- Network: CCNA, CompTIA Network+
