Senior, Security Engineer- Infrastructure & Automation (Uttar Pradesh)

Hackajob is collaborating with Scale Computing to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Who We Are Scale Computing is a global leader in edge computing, hyperconverged infrastructure, and managednetworking solutions. We deliver innovative, secure, and scalable technology that powers criticaloperations worldwide. Role Overview We are seeking a Security Engineer to join our growing security team, based in our Bengaluru office. This role is hands-on and technically focused - you will deploy, configure, and automate securitytooling across our hyperscaler and on-premises infrastructure, working directly with the CISO to drivetechnical security initiatives. This is not a GRC, compliance, or analyst role. We are looking for an engineer who has built andconfigured security systems from the ground up - someone who has written scripts to automatecontrols, tuned detection rules, and gotten their hands dirty in cloud security consoles and infrastructuretooling. If your security experience is primarily policy-writing, audit support, or being a user of vendordashboards, this role is not the right fit. Key Responsibilities Security Tooling Deployment & Configuration - Deploy, configure, and maintain security tools across AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments - Implement and manage SIEM platforms - log ingestion pipelines, parser development, andcorrelation rule authoring - Configure and tune EDR/XDR platforms, vulnerability scanners, and network security tools - Integrate security tooling with infrastructure via APIs and native connectors - Own tool lifecycle: initial deployment, hardening, health monitoring, and version upgrades Security Automation & Alerting - Build automation for security controls using Python, Bash, and/or Power Shell - Develop and maintain detection rules, alerting logic, and correlation content - Automate routine Sec Ops tasks: triage workflows, data enrichment, response actions - Reduce alert fatigue through systematic tuning, suppression rules, and threshold calibration - Build integrations between security tools and ticketing/ITSM systems (Jira, Service Now, orequivalent)Cloud & Infrastructure Security - Implement and monitor cloud-native security controls: AWS Security Hub, Guard Duty, IAM; Azure Defender, Sentinel, Entra ID - Apply and validate CIS benchmarks and hardening baselines across servers and endpoints - Review and harden Infrastructure as Code configurations (Terraform, Ansible) - Monitor network traffic and enforce segmentation policies - Contribute to container and Kubernetes security posture: image scanning, admission control,runtime monitoring Detection & Response Engineering - Develop detection content mapped to MITRE ATT&CK; - Build and maintain runbooks for alert investigation and structured response - Participate in incident response activities as a technical contributor - Conduct threat hunting exercises using available telemetry - Support purple team exercises and security tabletops Collaboration with CISO & Security Team - Translate CISO direction into working technical implementations - Document architecture decisions, tool configurations, and automation workflows - Surface tooling gaps and propose solutions with clear tradeoff analysis - Communicate technical findings clearly to non-technical stakeholders when needed Experience - 4-7 years in a hands-on security engineering or security operations engineering role - Demonstrated experience building or configuring security tooling - not just operating vendordashboards - Hands-on experience in at least one cloud environment (AWS or Azure) with native securityservices - Scripting proficiency: Python and/or Bash required; Power Shell a plus - Hands-on SIEM experience: Elastic Security, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, or equivalent - detectionrule development, not just querying - Experience with vulnerability management tooling (Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, or equivalent) at anadministrative/configuration level - Strong written and verbal English communication skills Technical Skills - Cloud: AWS (Security Hub, Guard Duty, IAM, Cloud Trail, Config) or Azure (Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Entra ID, NSGs) - SIEM: Detection engineering, log source onboarding, parser/pipeline development - Scripting: Python and/or Bash - automation, API integration, tool-building - Endpoint security: EDR/XDR administrative configuration and alert tuning - Network security: Firewall policy review, IDS/IPS tuning, network traffic analysis - Ia C: Terraform or Ansible at a review and hardening level (greenfield dev is a plus, not required)Preferred Certifications One or more of the following preferred: - GIAC certifications: GCIH, GCIA, GCED, GDAT, or GREM - AWS Certified Security - Specialty - Microsoft SC-200 (Security Operations Analyst) - Comp TIA Cy SA+ (baseline acceptable; not a differentiator onits own)Practical, portfolio-backed experience Hacka