DLP - Digital Guardian

Ciel HR; Hyderabad, Pune District, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Part time

Job summary

Ciel HR in India seeks a DLP - Digital Guardian SME to lead Digital Guardian DLP, data discovery and classification, incident investigation, policy tuning, and integration with the broader security ecosystem across endpoint, email, cloud, web, and enterprise data environments.

Note: This is a hands-on Digital Guardian role; candidates without Digital Guardian experience will not be considered. Hybrid, 6-month contract, staged for India-wide operations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Digital Guardian DLP implementation and administration.
• Experience in data discovery and data classification across environments.
• Ability to tune DLP policies to reduce false positives.
• Experience with cloud and on-premises deployments.
• Strong collaboration with SOC, Legal, and IT teams.

Responsibilities

• Digital Guardian DLP Engineering & Administration: design, deploy, configure, administer, and maintain Digital Guardian DLP solutions.
• Develop and manage DLP policies for endpoint, email, web, cloud applications, file shares, collaboration platforms, and databases.
• Configure data protection controls aligned with business, security, legal, and regulatory requirements.
• Policy tuning to reduce false positives and improve detection effectiveness.
• Support enterprise-scale DLP deployments across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Data Discovery & Classification: identify and classify sensitive information including PII, PCI, PHI, financial data, IP, and confidential business information.
• Work with data owners to define data classification and protection requirements.
• Integrate Digital Guardian with data discovery, classification, and governance platforms.
• Incident Management & Investigation: monitor and investigate DLP alerts, risk analysis, and root cause analysis; coordinate with SOC, Legal, Compliance, IT for triage and remediation.
• Recommend corrective actions and continuously improve DLP controls.
• Integration, Monitoring & Automation: integrate with SIEM, SOAR, ITSM, dashboards; automate reporting, policy deployment, remediation, and exception workflows.

Skills

DLP policy tuning

Incident investigation

Data discovery

Data classification

Integration with SIEM

Policy enforcement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Technology

Tools

Digital Guardian DLP

PowerShell

Python

SQL

REST APIs

SOAR

ITSM

Job description

Job Title: DLP - Digital Guardian

Exp: 5 - 10 Years

Loc: Pan India

Duration: Hybrid

Duration: 6 Months

Job Summary

The role will focus primarily on Digital Guardian DLP, data discovery and classification, incident investigation, policy tuning, and integration with the broader security ecosystem across endpoint, email, cloud, web, and enterprise data environments.

Note: This is specifically a DLP Digital Guardian SME role, not a general DLP Specialist position. Hands-on Digital Guardian experience is mandatory. Candidates without Digital Guardian experience will not be considered and will be rejected for this requirement.

Key Responsibilities

Digital Guardian DLP Engineering & Administration

• Design, deploy, configure, administer, and maintain Digital Guardian DLP solutions.
• Develop and manage DLP policies for endpoint, email, web, cloud applications, file shares, collaboration platforms, and databases.
• Configure data protection controls aligned with business, security, legal, and regulatory requirements.
• Perform policy tuning and optimization to reduce false positives and improve detection effectiveness.
• Support enterprise-scale DLP deployments across cloud and hybrid environments.

Data Discovery & Classification

• Identify and classify sensitive information including PII, PCI, PHI, financial data, intellectual property, and confidential business information.
• Work with data owners and business stakeholders to define data classification and protection requirements.
• Integrate Digital Guardian with data discovery, classification, and governance platforms.

Incident Management & Investigation

• Monitor and investigate DLP alerts, policy violations, and potential data-exfiltration events.
• Perform risk analysis and root cause analysis for DLP incidents.
• Coordinate with SOC, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, and IT teams for incident triage and remediation.
• Recommend corrective actions and continuously improve DLP controls.

Integration, Monitoring & Automation

• Integrate Digital Guardian with SIEM, SOAR, ITSM, data governance, and security monitoring platforms.
• Develop dashboards and reports covering data-loss trends, incidents, policy effectiveness, compliance metrics, and risk posture.
• Automate DLP reporting, policy deployment, remediation, and exception workflows where applicable.
• Support custom detection rules and integrations using PowerShell, Python, SQL, REST APIs, and related technologies.

Required Experience

• 5+ years of experience in Information Security, Data Security, or Data Protection.
• 3+ years of hands-on DLP implementation and administration experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Digital Guardian DLP in an enterprise environment.
• Experience implementing and tuning DLP policies across multiple data-loss channels.
• Experience with data discovery, classification, incident investigation, and DLP policy lifecycle management.
• Experience securing cloud and hybrid environments.

Key Technical Skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Security, or related discipline.
• Relevant security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or Microsoft Security certifications preferred.