About us The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), established in 1958, is one of India's premier institutions for science, engineering, and technology education and research. Recognised as an Institution of Eminence by the Ministry of Education, IIT Bombay consistently ranks among the top universities globally.
Home to world-class faculty, cutting-edge research facilities, and a vibrant academic community, IIT Bombay's Computer Centre provides the critical IT infrastructure that powers teaching, research, high-performance computing, enterprise applications, cloud services, and digital operations across the Institute. The team is responsible for designing, operating, and securing one of India's leading academic technology environments.

The Computer Centre at IIT Bombay is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer to join its Operations and Services team. This is a highly hands-on technical role for an experienced cybersecurity skilled who enjoys implementing, securing, troubleshooting, and continuously improving enterprise security infrastructure. The selected candidate will play a key role in protecting campus IT infrastructure, datacentres, cloud platforms, high-performance computing (HPC) environments, enterprise applications, research systems, and user endpoints.

This role is a contract role and not a purely managerial, governance, audit, or compliance-focused position. We are looking for engineers who remain deeply involved in technical implementation and operational security.

Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise cybersecurity solutions across network, server, endpoint, identity, and cloud environments.
Deploy and manage firewalls, IDS/IPS, Web Application Firewalls (WAF), VPNs,



secure gateways, and network access controls.
Security Operations & Incident Response
Monitor, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity incidents across enterprise infrastructure.
Perform incident triage, containment, eradication, recovery, and root-cause analysis.
Support penetration testing and validation of remediation efforts.
Endpoint, Cloud & Application Security
Secure Windows, Linux, macOS, virtualization platforms, cloud infrastructure, enterprise servers, and HPC environments.
Develop automation for security monitoring, log analysis, and incident response.
Mentor junior engineers while contributing to long-term cybersecurity strategy.

Desired Experience & Skills
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
Approximately 5-9 years of strong hands-on cybersecurity engineering experience.
Experience securing enterprise, campus, datacentre, cloud, or research computing environments.
Strong expertise in enterprise firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPNs, WAF, SIEM, EDR/XDR, vulnerability management, Linux administration, and security operations.
Experience with Python and/or Shell scripting, Ansible (or equivalent automation tools), Git, API integrations, and Infrastructure-as-Code fundamentals.
Familiarity with cloud security, container security, identity management, and enterprise security platforms such as Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar, or Elastic is desirable.
Industry certifications such as CISSP, GIAC, CEH, Security+, Microsoft Security, Palo Alto, Fortinet, or Cisco Security certifications are preferred.

📌 Cyber Security Engineer (Contract) (Mumbai)
🏢 Application Software Centre IIT Bombay
📍 Mumbai