Senior Security Engineer
Role summary
Mastek seeks a Senior Security Engineer for its Threat Detection and Response (TD&R) Team. This hands-on role focuses on building the first line of defense against cyber threats. Responsibilities include developing a scalable threat detection platform using AI and automation, optimizing security logging data, creating detections as code with CI/CD, managing incident response, and monitoring the threat landscape. The role requires partnering with development teams on cloud-native security controls (AWS, Kubernetes). This is a technical leadership opportunity to solve complex security challenges and defend against critical threats.
Mastek is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to add to our growing Threat Detection and Response (TD&R) Team. This is a hands-on technical role that will build our clients’ first line of defense against cybersecurity threats in a complex and evolving landscape. You will be responsible for our detection and response to lifecycles, identifying and preventing threats from impacting on our employees, customers and other stakeholders. As a Senior Security Engineer, you will have the opportunity to apply your experience to provide technical leadership to the team, build a platform to identify and stop threats, work with data to solve complex security challenges, and ultimately defend Client against critical threats.
Roles and Responsibilities:
● Build a platform to detect threats to the company using an engineering-first approach that prioritizes reliability, maintainability and scalability.
● Leverage AI and automation to streamline detection and response operations in a safe and reliable manner.
● Onboard, normalize and optimize security logging data to support detection engineering, applied ML models, and efficient querying during incidents.
● Apply an engineering mindset to develop high-fidelity, rule-based and ML-driven detections as code, utilizing automated testing and CI/CD pipelines for deployment.
● Own the end-to-end response to alerts, threats, and security incidents, including participating in on-call rotations.
● Proactively monitor the threat landscape to identify and track emerging threats, ensuring that appropriate detective and preventative controls are deployed.
● Partner with development teams to design controls for a cloud first infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, etc.)
Qualifications:
● 5+ years of experience in software, security, and/or data engineering.
● Strong desire to apply the latest technology including AI and ML to defend against threats.
● Experience with data pipelines and data engineering, especially centralized logging, SIEM tools, and data lakes.
● Desire to measure the success of your work with quantitative tools like Precision and Recall.
● Proficiency in at least one programming language like Python, Go or similar.
● Proven experience with cloud infrastructure and technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, containers, IaC, etc.
● Proven experience with good engineering practices like git/GitHub and CI/CD automations.
● Familiarity with tactics, techniques, and procedures used by threat actors.
● Experience detecting and responding to cybersecurity incidents.
● Strong passion for continuous learning, especially relating to cybersecurity and technology.
● Team player with strong oral and written communication skills.
● Effective ability to make decisions independently and provide clear technical guidance to others.
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