Cloud Detection Engineer - Cybersecurity

Novartis India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,300,000 - 1,700,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis India is seeking a hands-on Cloud Detection Engineer to shape cloud security monitoring. You will design, build, and continuously improve detection capabilities across Azure, AWS, and CNAPP sources, partnering with incident response and cloud security architects.

This role blends cloud telemetry, AI-assisted investigation, and automation to create high-signal, scalable security outcomes. Responsibilities include designing an AI-native cloud detection pipeline, tuning detections across

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on cloud security and detection engineering experience.
• Experience with Azure and AWS security architectures and telemetry sources.
• Familiarity with CNAPP platforms and cloud-native detectors such as Wiz/Vega.
• Proficiency in KQL and at least one programming language (Python).
• Understanding MITRE ATT&CK, threat-informed defense, and risk-based alert prioritization.
• Experience collaborating across security operations, cloud engineering and platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate an AI-native cloud detection pipeline across multi-cloud environments.
• Build high-fidelity detections for cloud control-plane, data plane, IAM, network, and containers.
• Integrate telemetry from Wiz, Defender for Cloud, GuardDuty, Sentinel and CNAPP sources.
• Develop analytics and dashboards to support rapid pivot from alerts to resources and history.
• Own detection lifecycle from hypothesis to deployment, tuning and retirement.
• Embed AI and ensure governance with engineering controls and human oversight.

Skills

Cloud security

Detection engineering

Threat hunting

Incident response

Security analytics

Communication

Collaborative work

Education

AZ-500

AWS Certified Security - Specialty

GIAC Cloud Security certifications

CCSP or equivalent

Tools

Wiz

Vega

Git

CI/CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM/Bicep

Job description

Job Summary

Assoc. Dir. DDIT ISC CSOC Engineering - Cloud Job Description Summary We are seeking a hands-on Cloud Detection Engineer to help shape the future of cloud security monitoring at Novartis. You will design, build, validate and continuously improve detection capabilities across Azure, AWS and other strategic cloud platforms while being a key partner with incident response and cloud security architect teams. An engineering role that combines cloud telemetry, custom detections, threat research, automation and AI-assisted investigation to create high-signal, scalable outcomes for Cyber Defense. Role purpose: Build a robust, AI-native cloud detection pipeline that improves correlation and investigation efficiency across multi-cloud environments. Engineer fragmented cloud telemetry into clear, actionable security outcomes with AI embedded throughout the detection engineering lifecycle. A multidimensional engineering role at the intersection of automation, cloud architecture, threat behavior analysis, detection engineering supporting analyst investigation workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and operate an AI-native cloud detection pipeline that aggregates, correlates, enriches, deduplicates and prioritizes signals before analyst investigation.
• Build and tune high-fidelity detections that improve coverage across cloud control-plane, data plane and management-plane activity, identity and access, network, container and Kubernetes and security posture.
• Use lower-fidelity and behavioral signals as investigation context, while ensuring known high-confidence detections are consistently escalated for security investigation.
• Integrate and correlate telemetry from WIZ, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AWS GuardDuty, Microsoft Sentinel and other cloud-native or CNAPP sources .
• Apply hands-on Wiz experience to interpret posture findings, attack paths, identity and exposure context, cloud events, runtime findings and threat detections and improve detection workflows.
• Develop behavioral baselines and entity-centric analytics across users, IP addresses, identities and cloud resources .
• Create reusable dashboards, dynamic lookups and enrichment patterns enabling rapid pivots / drilldowns from an alert to related resource, identity, inventory and historical data.
• Own the detection lifecycle from threat hypothesis and telemetry assessment through development, peer review, testing, deployment, tuning, documentation and retirement.
• Embed AI across the detection lifecycle to accelerate detection creation and tuning, while ensuring engineering controls and human judgment govern the outcomes.
• Finetune detections using historical data, controlled simulations, purple-team exercises, attack emulation and lessons learned from incidents and threat hunts.
• Use detection-as-code practices, Git, CI/CD and automated testing to deliver controlled, repeatable and auditable content changes .
• Partner with Threat Hunting and Response, CSOC analysts, cloud platform teams, data onboarding, threat intelligence and automation teams to close visibility gaps and operationalize detections.
• Automate enrichment and triage using Python, APIs, SOAR workflows and AI-assisted approaches, with appropriate human oversight for security decisions .
• Measure and improve detection coverage, precision, false-positive rate, investigation volume, alert latency, data quality and analyst effort.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands‑on experience in cloud security, detection engineering, security analytics, threat hunting, incident response or security platform engineering.
• Working knowledge of Azure and AWS security architectures, respective cloud domains and workloads.
• Understanding of cloud telemetry and logging sources such as Azure Activity and Diagnostic logs, Entra ID logs, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudWatch and GuardDuty findings.
• Experience in working with CNAPP bundles or developing and tuning detections in Wiz, Vega or cloud‑native security platforms.
• Proficiency in KQL and at least one scripting or programming language such as Python.
• CloudShell understanding is expected.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM‑assisted security investigation, agentic workflows or machine‑learning approaches to signal enrichment and triage .
• Understanding of MITRE ATT&CK, MITRE ATLAS, threat‑informed defense, entity mapping, correlation, enrichment and alert prioritization.
• Ability to investigate complex datasets, distinguish true security risk from operational noise and communicate engineering decisions clearly .
• Experience collaborating across security operations, cloud engineering and platform teams in a global environment.
• Experience with detection‑as‑code, Sigma or YAML‑based content, Git, CI/CD, unit/integration testing and safe deployment or rollback practices .
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools such as Terraform, ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation or equivalent.
• Background in threat intelligence, purple teaming, red teaming, incident response or cloud threat research.

Desirable Requirement

Relevant certifications such as AZ-500, AWS Certified Security - Specialty, GIAC Cloud Security certifications, CCSP or equivalent practical expertise. GIAC Cloud Forensics Responder (GCFR)

You’ll receive

You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Skills Desired

Communication, Cybersecurity Compliance, Cyber Threat Hunting, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Cyber Threat Prevention, Decision Making, Digital Capabilities, Influencing Skills, Information Security Risk Management, Technology Use, Vulnerability Management Experience Level Senior Level