Job Description: Cybersecurity Engineer

- Location: Hyderabad | Department: Security Engineering | Employment Type: Full-Time

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Engineer to join our Security Engineering team. This role is responsible for designing, deploying, and optimizing the enterprise security technology stack -- spanning endpoint, identity, network, cloud, and data security platforms. The ideal candidate has 3-8+ years of progressive cybersecurity engineering experience and deep technical knowledge across a broad range of modern security platforms. This is a hands-on engineering role offering a growth path toward Senior Cybersecurity Engineer or Lead Cybersecurity Engineer.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, deploy, configure, and maintain security platforms across Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Identity and Access Management (IAM), the Microsoft Defender stack, network security, and application security tooling.
- Deploy and manage Network Detection and Response (NDR), SIEM logging/monitoring, and User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) solutions to strengthen enterprise-wide threat visibility.
- Build, maintain, and optimize security automation and orchestration (SOAR) playbooks to streamline detection, response, and operational workflows.
- Manage security agent deployment, health, and lifecycle across endpoints (EDR, logging, and monitoring agents).
- Partner with and oversee Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) relationships, serving as the internal technical escalation point and ensuring SLA and detection quality standards are met.
- Own and mature the vulnerability management program, including scanning, prioritization, remediation tracking, and reporting.
- Implement and manage Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), and AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) tool to identify and remediate misconfigurations and emerging risk across cloud and AI environments.
- Administer and optimize the Microsoft Defender suite (Defender for Endpoint, Identity, Cloud Apps, Office 365, and Defender for Cloud).
- Support IAM engineering initiatives, including identity lifecycle management, conditional access, privileged access management (PAM),



and single sign-on (SSO).
- Contribute to security design reviews and help define technical standards for new projects and initiatives.
- Support incident response and threat hunting activities, leveraging SIEM, NDR, and UEBA telemetry to investigate and contain threats.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with network, cloud, application, and infrastructure teams to embed security into the broader technology environment.
- Maintain accurate network and system diagrams, runbooks, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and change documentation.
- Participate in an On-Call rotation to support critical security incidents outside of business hours.
- Mentor junior security engineers and share knowledge across the team.

Required Qualifications

- 8+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity engineering or a related technical security role.
- Hands-on experience with Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and endpoint agent management.
- Hands-on experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) platforms and identity security concepts.
- Working experience with the Microsoft Defender stack (Defender for Endpoint, Identity, Cloud Apps, Office 365, and/or Defender for Cloud).
- Experience with network security management and application security/management practices.
- Experience with Network Detection and Response (NDR) and UEBA solutions for threat and anomaly detection.
- Experience with SIEM platforms for logging, monitoring, detection engineering, and alert tuning.
- Experience with security automation/orchestration (SOAR) tooling.
- Experience working with or managing a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP).
- Experience with vulnerability management programs and remediation processes.
- Experience with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)



and Data Security Posture Management (DSPM); exposure to AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) is a strong plus.
- Strong understanding of networking, cloud platforms (Azure and/or AWS), and identity protocols (SAML, OAuth, OIDC).
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work across multiple security domains simultaneously.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technical decisions and risk trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively across engineering and security operations teams.

Required Certifications

Candidates should hold, or be actively working toward, a combination of the following:

- CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional)
- CISM (Certified Information Security Manager)
- CompTIA Security+
- SC-200 (Microsoft Security Operations Analyst)
- SC-300 (Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator)
- AZ-500 (Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate)
- AWS Certified Security - Specialty (or equivalent AWS security certification)

Preferred Certifications (Plus)

- PCNSE (Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer)
- CCFA (CrowdStrike Certified Falcon Administrator)

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Experience

- Endpoint management experience (e.g., Microsoft Intune, SCCM) is a plus.
- Familiarity with security frameworks (NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK;, Zero Trust).
- Experience integrating security tooling into DevSecOps / CI-CD pipelines.
- Experience working in a healthcare organization or other highly regulated industry, with familiarity with HIPAA and PHI-handling requirements.
- Prior experience with change management/ITSM tools (ServiceNow, Jira).

Why Join Us

- A high-impact engineering role shaping the enterprise security technology stack.
- Exposure to a broad, contemporary security platform ecosystem, including emerging areas like AI-SPM and DSPM.
- A clear growth path toward Senior Cybersecurity Engineer or Lead Cybersecurity Engineer.
- The opportunity to directly protect sensitive healthcare data and systems that support patient care.jd scrren question

(phone hidden)

[email protected]

📌 Cyber Security Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Orcapod Consulting Services
📍 Hyderabad