Role Overview

- Candidates should possess 7-10 years of cybersecurity/security engineering experience.
- The focus is on security engineering experience, not cyber assurance, audit, governance, risk, compliance, or policy-oriented backgrounds.
- Candidates should have foundational security knowledge with strong expertise in network security.

Core Technical Requirements

Network Security (Primary Skill)

Candidates should have hands-on expertise in:
- Firewalls
- Switches
- Routers
- Security configurations and security profiles
- VPN management and configurations
- Network traffic security controls
- Firewall policy management and auditing
- These areas constitute the primary focus of the role.

Cloud Security (Mandatory)
- Candidates should have working knowledge of:
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Cloud networking and cloud security concepts
- Security Groups
- Cloud-native network controls
- Network security enforcement policies
- WAF (Web Application Firewall)
- DDoS Protection Services
- Awareness of securing cloud services and cloud network architecture is required.
- Engineering and Automation Skills

Candidates should have:
- Security engineering mindset
- Automation experience
- Infrastructure-as-Code exposure
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to develop automation solutions

Technologies mentioned:
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- AWS User Data Scripts
- Python or other scripting languages
- Solid automation capabilities are highly valued.

AI Experience
- Experience leveraging AI tools for coding and automation is considered a positive differentiator.
- Examples mentioned include AI-assisted code generation tools.
- Candidates with hands-on experience using AI for automation development will be viewed favorably.

Skill Priority Discussion Must-Have Skills
- Network Security is mandatory.
- Cloud Security is mandatory.
- Candidates should possess both competencies.

Nice-to-Have Skills
- DevSecOps




- AI Engineering
- Advanced Automation Skills

Desired Skill Weightage
- Hiring Manager provided approximate emphasis:
- 60-70% Network Security
- 20-30% Cloud Security
- Engineering/Automation skills are an important differentiator
- Candidates with strong networking expertise and moderate cloud exposure may still be considered, provided they understand cloud networking fundamentals.

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Experience Expectations

Security Experience

- Overall cybersecurity/security experience: 7-10 years.

Experience can span:
- Security Operations (SOC)
- Incident Response
- Other relevant cybersecurity domains

Such foundational security experience is considered valuable.

Network Security Experience

Candidates with 5-7 years of focused network administration/network security experience are viewed very positively.

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Project Scope

Hiring Manager explained the nature of work expected from contractors.

Automation Projects

Candidates may be required to:

- Integrate firewalls with device management platforms such as Intune.
- Develop scripts consuming APIs from multiple systems.
- Read and write data through APIs.
- Build operational automation solutions.
- Scripting language choice is flexible and may include:
- Python
- Bash
- Any language the candidate is proficient in.

Infrastructure as Code Projects
- Candidates may be required to:
- Provision security groups.
- Automate cloud deployments.
- Build infrastructure using Terraform or user data scripts.
- Support cloud network security automation initiatives.

Terraform Expectations
- Terraform is considered a nice-to-have skill.
- Intermediate-level knowledge is sufficient.
- Candidates are not expected to be highly proficient.
- Ability to contribute and create a functional first draft is considered adequate because peer review support will be available from existing engineers.

📌 Security Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Aziro
📍 Bengaluru