Email Security Engineer

Tekskills Inc.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Tekskills Inc. in Hyderabad is seeking an Email Security Specialist to manage Mimecast implementations, enforce advanced filtering, and ensure compliant email configurations. You will monitor threats, coordinate with IT and IR teams, and drive containment and recovery of email-borne incidents.

The role emphasizes developing threat reports, supporting governance with compliance submissions, and guiding on BEC protection and mailbox analytics to continuously improve security posture.

Responsibilities

• Manage and continuously improve Mimecast Email Security implementation to prevent phishing, spoofing, and malware threats.
• Establish advanced filtering, impersonation protection, and attachment sandboxing policies per risk-based user segmentation.
• Ensure email routing, journaling, and DKIM/DMARC/SPF configurations are aligned with compliance and audit requirements.
• Monitor and resolve advanced email threats, perform RCA on false negatives/positives, and lead remediation for targeted phishing attacks.
• Integrate email security events into SIEM for correlation with identity and endpoint telemetry for improved incident detection.
• Develop reporting templates for weekly threat trends and support governance teams with compliance submissions.
• Provide guidance on BEC protection, email content control, and mailbox behavior analytics.
• Lead simulation testing, phishing campaign exercises, and user awareness metrics for ongoing posture improvements.
• Collaborate with IT and IR teams to drive end-to-end containment and recovery of email-borne incidents.
• Define operational baselines, tune policies, and manage escalations from SOC analysts and internal stakeholders.

Skills

Mimecast

SIEM

Tools

Mimecast

SIEM

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and continuously improve Mimecast Email Security implementation to prevent phishing, spoofing, and malware threats targeting users.
• Establish advanced filtering, impersonation protection, and attachment sandboxing policies per risk-based user segmentation.
• Ensure email routing, journaling, and DKIM/DMARC/SPF configurations are aligned with compliance and audit requirements.
• Monitor and resolve advanced email threats, perform RCA on false negatives/positives, and lead remediation for targeted phishing attacks.
• Integrate email security events into SIEM for correlation with identity and endpoint telemetry for improved incident detection.
• Develop reporting templates for weekly threat trends and support governance teams with compliance submissions.
• Provide guidance on BEC protection, email content control, and mailbox behavior analytics.
• Lead simulation testing, phishing campaign exercises, and user awareness metrics for ongoing posture improvements.
• Collaborate with IT and IR teams to drive end-to-end containment and recovery of email-borne incidents.
• Define operational baselines, tune policies, and manage escalations from SOC analysts and internal stakeholders.