IT Security Engineer (Senior)

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Hyderabad
Job Category: Information Technology

About the role:
Drive security excellence across our technology stack whilst enabling business innovation. This role demands a generalist mindset with deep expertise, combining hands-on technical capability with strategic thinking to protect and enable Quantium&aposs data-driven business.
Key Responsibilities

• Security Platform Ownership: end-to-end responsibility for critical security platforms
• Detection and Response: real-time monitoring of security systems and applications, investigating anomalies, and escalating critical events to senior security and IT staff
• Risk-based decision making: independently assess, prioritise and remediate security risks aligned to business impact
• Cross-domain security: impact across multiple domains such as cloud security, application security, infrastructure security initiatives, detection and response etc.
• Collaborate: Partner with internal stakeholders to improve security outcomes, as well as with internal development teams to build pragmatic security solutions
• Drive automation of repetitive security tasks
• Show strong ownership of security issues and work to resolve and escalate where needed
• Contribute to security strategy and roadmap development
  

Experience, Education & Skills

• Demonstrated experience across at least 3 security domains (network, cloud, application, identity, AI, offensive, defensive, response, forensics etc.)
• Five years of experience in cybersecurity
• Track record of owning security outcomes end-to-end
• Experience translating technical risks into business language
• Provide ability to influence without authority
• Technical breadth
• Ownership mindset
  

The Following Skills And Experience Would Be An Advantage

• Experience with AI Security practices and securing AI/ML systems
• Experience with Shift Left Security practices, including secure coding, DevSecOps, and security integration in CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Cloud (Azure, GCP, AWS) Security configuration, and monitoring
• Experience with CSPM and CNAPP tools and methodologies
• Using tools like Terraform, Azure ARM templates, or GCP Deployment Manager
  

What Does Success Look Like

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• Drive measurable security risk reduction
• Proactive identification of issues and continuous improvement of security capabilities
• Help build a strong security culture
• Ensure operational excellence
  

Key People And Leadership Capabilities

• Self-aware - you leverage diversity across people, tasks, and projects, taking responsibility for self and others.
• Agile and innovative - you possess strong lateral thinking skills.
• Achieve and perform - you have exceptional execution skills and are achievement focused.
• Purposeful and aligned - you can set clear, tangible objectives which deliver against your performance objectives.
• Achievement oriented - you effectively facilitate challenging performance related conversations in a timely and appropriate manner.