Cyber Security Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services; Ernakulam; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Kochi is seeking experienced Network Security professionals for an in-person hiring drive. The role emphasizes firewall management, VPNs, and IPS/IDS with 6-15 years of relevant experience. In-depth knowledge of Fortigate, Palo Alto, or Checkpoint platforms is preferred.

The position involves designing and operating firewall setups, patch management, incident resolution, and generating compliance reports to support enterprise security posture.

Qualifications

• 6-15 years of experience in network security.
• Demonstrated expertise in firewalls, IPS/IDS, VPN, and related tools.
• Ability to produce compliance reports and manage changes.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident resolution skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide day to day operational support for Firewall Management Service.
• Design, plan, implement, and operate firewall setups and policy management.
• Resolve incidents and ensure firewall security policies meet business and regulatory needs.
• Possess fault management skills to identify, diagnose, and resolve faults.
• Manage software patches for firewall environments and validate deployments.
• Maintain backup and restore configurations per policy.
• Create remediation and change-tracking reports on demand.
• Perform IPSec VPN analysis and monitor VPN connectivity.
• Support security tooling and monitoring across perimeter defenses.
• Coordinate with vendors for hardware replacement and core debugging.

Skills

Network security

Firewalls

IPS/IDS

Web proxy

NAC

VPN

Compliance reports

Firewall deployment

Patch management

Change management

Troubleshooting

SOP creation

IPS rule creation

Security updates monitoring

Forensics support

Soft skills

Tools

Fortigate

Palo Alto

Checkpoint

Job description

Dear Candidate,

Greetings from Tata Consultancy Services!!

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is organizing a Weekend In‑Person Hiring Drive at our Kochi location for experienced professionals specializing in Network Security.

Skill: Network Security

Experience Required: 6-15 years.

Location: Kochi

In Person Interview Date: 12th September 2026

In Person Interview Location: Kochi

Required Skills:

• technical expertise in Network security technology domain with demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following areas – Firewalls, IPS/IDS, Web Proxy, NAC, VPN.
• Proven experience in maintaining security solutions across enterprise environments.
• Provide compliance reports (monthly and based on need)
• Network security deployment & configuration
• Device upgrade and patch management
• Configuration and change management.
• Change & configuration management.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Creation of SOPs for daily operations of network security tools and services
• Creation and modification of custom rules for IPS services
• Monitoring security advisory groups to ensure all necessary security updates, patches and preventive measures are in place.
• Support forensics activates and requirements.
• Good soft skills and multi-tasking abilities

Responsibility / Expectations from the role:

• Provide day to day operational support for the Firewall Management Service.
• Responsible for the design, planning, implementation, and operation of firewall setups and management.
• Your role involves resolving operational incidents, managing firewall security policies and rule sets, and ensuring compliance with business and regulatory requirements.
• Expert level knowledge of Fault Management like Identify and Classify Fault, Investigate and Diagnose Fault and Provide Fault resolution.
• Should have very good experience of software patch management to manage the Firewall patch management cycle, patch testing and deployment of patches on timely basis
• Candidate should have knowledge of backup and restoration for configuration as per defined backup and restoration policy
• Create various reports for remediation, change tracking and on demand basis.
• Initial firewall/IPS testing of parameters, operation, support and commissioning.
• Knowledge of Analysis of IPSec VPNs implementation and Manage and Monitor all VPN connectivity.
• Maintaining and administering perimeter security systems such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems
• Support client with Firewall Management related questions including those related to remediation procedures.
• Co-ordinate with 3rd party vendors for Network Hardware replacement Core level debugging.
• Analyzing, troubleshooting and correcting network problems.
• Adhere to change control/management process.
• Network Security KPI’s & Reporting Metrics
• Certification in any of these :Fortigate, Palo Alto, Checkpoint