Security Platform Engineer L3

Applicable Limited; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Security Platform Engineer, where you will be responsible for monitoring and responding to security incidents and supporting the organization's technology domain. The ideal candidate will possess a Bachelor's degree in IT and seasoned knowledge of security tools and practices, ensuring the safety and efficiency of the systems in place. With a dedicated team and a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion, this role offers ample opportunity for career growth and personal development.

Qualifications

• Seasoned experience in security technologies.
• Relevant Security certifications such as CISSP, CISM are advantages.
• Experience in SOC/CSIRT operations required.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for monitoring security incidents and responding effectively.
• Works with a 24/7 team on security operations.
• Administers security tools to gather and analyze security logs.

Skills

Customer service orientation

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Team player

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology

Tools

SIEM tools

Firewalls

IPS

IDS

Proxy

Job description

Continue to make an impact with a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. At NTT DATA, we are renowned for our technical excellence, leading innovations, and making a difference for our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it’s a place where you can continue to grow, belong, and thrive.

Your career here is about believing in yourself and seizing new opportunities and challenges. It’s about expanding your skills and expertise in your current role and preparing yourself for future advancements. That’s why we encourage you to take every opportunity to further your career within our great global team.

Your day at NTT DATA
The Security Platform Engineer is a seasoned subject matter expert, responsible for facilitating problem resolution and mentoring for the overall team.

This role performs operational security tasks such as performance and availability monitoring, log monitoring, security incident detection and response, security event reporting, and content maintenance (tuning).

The Security Platform Engineer is responsible for detecting and monitoring escalated threats and suspicious activity affecting the organization's technology domain (servers, networks, appliances and all infrastructure supporting production applications for the enterprise, as well as development environments).

Key responsibilities:

Palo Alto Firewall and SASE Experience is must.

Works as part of a 24/7 team working on rotationalshifts.

Works as part of Platform and Content Engineering handling tunings, stake holder requests, escalations, reporting, trainings.

Administers the organization's security tools to gather security logs from environment.

Performs lifecycle management of the supported security tools/technologies, Break-fix, Patching, Live update.

Adheres to SOPs and notify stake holders on logflow/log format issues.

Documents best practices.

Identifies opportunities to make automations whichwill help the incident response team.

Performs security incident handling and response from several vectors including End Point Protection and Enterprise Detection and response tools, attack analysis, malware analysis, network forensics, computer forensics, and a broad range of skills in LAN technologies, Windows and Linux O/S’s, and general security infrastructure.

Carries out agreed maintenance tasks.

Ensures usage of knowledge articles in incident diagnosis and resolution and assist with updating as and when required.

Performs defined tasks to monitor service delivery against service level agreements and maintains records of relevant information.

Investigates causes of incidents and seeks resolution.

Escalates unresolved incidents and follow up until incident is resolved.

Provides service recovery, following resolution of incidents.

Documents and closes resolved incidents accordingto agreed procedures.

Investigates and identifies root cause of incidents and assist with the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures.

Maintains knowledge of specific specialisms, provides detailed advice regarding their application.

Ensures efficient and comprehensive resolutionof incidents, including ensuring that repairs are carried out by coordinating product requests, working with other team members.

Logs all such incidents in a timely manner with the required level of detail with all the necessary.

Cooperates with all stakeholders including client IT environments, vendors and carriers to expedite diagnosis of errors and problems and to identify a resolution.

To thrive in this role, you need to have:

Seasoned working knowledge on implementationand monitoring of any SIEM or security tools/technologies.

Seasoned knowledge on security architecture, worked across different security technologies.

Customer service orientated and pro-active thinking.

Problem solverwho is highly driven and self-organized.

Great attention to detail.

Good analytical and logical thinking.

Excellent spoken and written communicationskills.

Team player with the ability to work well with others and in group with colleagues and stakeholders.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology or related field.
• Relevant level of Networking certifications such as CCNA, JNCIA, ACCA, PCNSA, CCSA etc. preferred.
• Relevant level of Security certifications such as AZ-500, SC-200, Security+, CEH, CISSP, CISM etc. will be added advantage.

Required experience:

• Seasoned experience in Security technologies like (Firewall, IPS, IDS, Proxy etc.).
• Seasoned experience in technical support to clients.
• Seasoned experience in diagnosis and troubleshooting.
• Seasoned experience providing remote support in Security Technologies.
• Seasoned experience in SOC/CSIRT Operations.
• Seasoned experience in handling security incidents end to end.
• Knowledge on networking, Linux and security concepts.
• Seasoned experience in configuring/managing security controls such as Firewall, IDS/IPS, EDR, NDR, UTM, Proxy, SOAR, HoneyPots and other security tools.
• Knowledge on log collection mechanism such as Syslog, Log file, DB API.
• Knowledge in security architecture.
• Seasoned experience in Security engineering.

Workplace type:

Equal Opportunity Employer
NTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category. Accelerate your career with us. Apply today