Security Platform Engineer

Security Platform Engineer

Location: Bangalore (Remote/Hybrid)

Reports to: Security Platform Engineering Manager

Travel: Not Required

Overview

We are seeking a Security Platform Engineer to design, integrate, and maintain the security tools and platforms that support our cyber defense operations. This role ensures that critical security technologiessuch as endpoint detection and response, email security, threat intelligence, identity security, and cloud/SaaS telemetryare reliable, effective, and tightly integrated into our detection and response workflows.

You will work closely with security operations, incident response, threat intelligence, and architecture teams to ensure our platforms deliver the visibility and insights needed to detect and respond to threats across a global, hybrid environment.

Key Objectives & Responsibilities

Platform Engineering & Operations

• Engineer, deploy, and maintain security platforms across cloud and onpremises environments.
• Ensure platforms deliver actionable telemetry to support detection and incident response.
• Integrate security tools into broader security pipelines including SIEM, SOAR, and data lakes.
• Monitor platform health, optimise configurations, and finetune performance.

Collaboration & Enablement

• Partner with security operations teams to design and implement detection and response use cases.
• Work with internal technical teams and external vendors to maintain and mature platform capabilities.

Automation & Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to automation, scripting, and infrastructureascode initiatives to streamline operations.
• Evaluate emerging security tools with a focus on platform capability and vendoragnostic solutions.
• Maintain highquality documentation, runbooks, and operational playbooks.

Experience & Skills

Essential Experience

• Strong understanding of log telemetry, data pipelines, and detection use cases.
• Experience integrating security tools in hybrid cloud/onprem environments.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex platform, integration, or data flow issues.

Technical Skills

• Handson experience with security platforms such as EDR, email security solutions, threat intelligence platforms, and cloud access security brokers (CASB).
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell).
• Familiarity with security operations workflows and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK or NIST CSF.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills working with crossfunctional technical teams.

Education & Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in a technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Cyber Security, Engineering, Information Technology)
• OR
• 24 years of relevant experience in security platform engineering, SOC tooling, or cyber defense roles.

Beneficial Skills & Certifications

• Experience working with Microsoft security technologies such as Microsoft Sentinel or Microsoft Defender (Endpoint, Identity, Cloud Apps, Email).
• Relevant security certifications (e.g., SC200, SC300, AZ500).
• Experience in hybrid or cloudfirst enterprise environments.