Cyber Security Engineer

FNZ; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

FNZ is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to establish and scale a new Security Engineering team in India, providing hands-on leadership and operational ownership of core cyber security platforms.

You will work with global security teams across UK, US, and APAC, mentoring engineers and driving automation and process improvements while ensuring platforms remain reliable and secure at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cyber security or security engineering.
• Experience in technical lead or senior engineering roles, mentoring others.
• Hands-on across multiple security domains (EDR, WAF, SIEM, email security, vulnerability mgmt).
• Solid understanding of enterprise IT and cloud infrastructure.
• Proven ability to operate, improve, and troubleshoot security platforms at scale.
• Experience working with global, distributed teams.
• Strong communication for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Automation scripting experience is a plus.
• Exposure to security architecture and control design.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operation and health of security platforms (WAF, SIEM, vulnerability mgmt).
• Provide early problem management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Lead incident-related engineering support with incident response and SOC teams.
• Oversee patching, upgrades, configuration changes, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure platforms align with global standards, architecture, and security strategy.
• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing team of cyber security engineers in India.
• Act as a technical escalation point for engineers across domains.
• Support recruitment and onboarding of additional engineers as the team scales.
• Foster engineering discipline, collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Security leadership

Cloud infrastructure

EDR

WAF

SIEM

Vulnerability management

Incident response

Automation

Mentoring

Security architecture

Tools

WAF tooling

EDR tools

SIEM platforms

Job description

We are looking for a Cyber Security Engineer to help establish and scale a new Security Engineering team based in India, providing operational ownership and continuous improvement of FNZ’s core cyber security platforms.

This role is hands-on and leadership-oriented, combining deep technical expertise, team leadership, and operational accountability across multiple security engineering domains. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring security platforms are reliable, well-tuned, and able to support FNZ’s global technology estate.

The role reports functionally to the Head of Cyber Platform Engineering and locally to an India-based manager for day-to-day people and operational support. You will work closely with security engineering and operations teams across the UK, US, and APAC.

Specific responsibilities

Technical & Operational Leadership

• Own the day-to-day operation and health of multiple cyber security platforms, including:
• Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• Security logging and monitoring (SIEM)
• Vulnerability management
• Provide early problem management, technical troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis across security controls.
• Lead incident-related engineering support, working closely with incident response and SOC teams.
• Oversee patching, upgrades, configuration changes, and lifecycle management of security platforms.
• Ensure platforms are operated in line with global standards, architecture, and security strategy.
• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing team of cyber security engineers in India.
• Act as a technical escalation point for engineers across supported domains.
• Support recruitment and onboarding of additional engineers as the team scales.
• Foster a culture of engineering discipline, collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement.

Continuous Improvement & Engineering Maturity

• Identify recurring operational issues and drive engineering-led improvements to increase platform resilience and efficiency.
• Promote and implement automation to reduce manual effort and improve consistency.
• Contribute to global security engineering initiatives and projects, including onboarding new tools or improving existing frameworks.
• Provide input into roadmaps, tooling decisions, and operational metrics.

Working Pattern

• The team provides global coverage across two shifts between 08:00–11:00 (local time), Monday to Friday.
• Occasional out-of-hours support may be required for major incidents or platform changes.

Experience required

• 5+ years of experience in cyber security or security engineering roles.
• Demonstrated experience in a technical lead or senior engineering role, including mentoring or guiding other engineers.
• Strong hands-on experience across multiple security engineering domains (e.g. EDR, WAF, SIEM, email security, vulnerability management).
• Solid understanding of enterprise IT and cloud infrastructure.
• Proven ability to operate, improve, and troubleshoot security platforms at scale.
• Experience working in global, distributed teams.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues to both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Experience building or scaling a security engineering team.
• Exposure to automation, scripting, or infrastructure-as-code in a security context.
• Experience aligning operational security engineering with security architecture and control design.