Operations Engineer

Accenture; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an experienced Security Operations Service Engineer in Chennai to support day-to-day security services and enterprise infrastructure. The role focuses on availability, performance, and compliance of security services with SLA-backed delivery.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage major incidents as needed. Ideal candidates have at least 5 years in network security operations, relevant certifications, and hands-on experience with SASE, Palo Alto

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Network Security Operations.
• Certification in PCNSE and Prisma Access SASE.
• Strong understanding of PRISMA SASE and Palo Alto FW modules.

Responsibilities

• Manage enterprise security infrastructure (Firewalls, VPN, Proxy, IDS/IPS, SASE).
• Perform proactive monitoring and respond to security alerts and incidents.
• Troubleshoot and resolve security-related issues within SLA commitments.
• Execute security policy, firewall, NAT, and access control changes.
• Support vulnerability management, patching, and remediation activities.
• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) for recurring security incidents.
• Manage user access requests and security compliance requirements.
• Maintain security configurations, documentation, and operational procedures.
• Support audit, regulatory, and risk management activities.
• Collaborate with Network, Cloud, Application, and SOC teams for issue resolution.
• Participate in change, release, and maintenance activities.
• Ensure security platform availability, performance, and operational health.
• Provide technical support during major incidents and escalations.
• Support Major Incident Management (MIM) and engage vendors/TAC teams for critical issues.

Skills

Network Security Operations

Service Engineer

PRISMA SASE

PCNSE certification

Palo Alto FW modules

Education

15 years full time education

Tools

NAC

SASE

VPN

Job description

Job Description

Project Role : Operations Engineer

Project Role Description : Support the operations and/or manage delivery for production systems and services based on operational requirements and service agreement.

Must have skills : Network Security Operations, Service Engineer

Good to have skills : NA

Minimum 5 year(s) of experience is required

Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary

A Security Operations Service Engineer is responsible for the day-to-day support, and maintenance of enterprise security infrastructure (FW , Proxy , NAC , SASE) ensuring the availability, performance, and compliance of security services. Service Engineers form the primary execution layer for operational delivery and support activities.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Manage enterprise security infrastructure (Firewalls, VPN, Proxy, IDS/IPS, SASE).
• Perform proactive monitoring and respond to security alerts and incidents.
• Troubleshoot and resolve security-related issues within SLA commitments.
• Execute security policy, firewall, NAT, and access control changes.
• Support vulnerability management, patching, and remediation activities.
• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) for recurring security incidents.
• Manage user access requests and security compliance requirements.
• Maintain security configurations, documentation, and operational procedures.
• Support audit, regulatory, and risk management activities.
• Collaborate with Network, Cloud, Application, and SOC teams for issue resolution.
• Participate in change, release, and maintenance activities.
• Ensure security platform availability, performance, and operational health.
• Provide technical support during major incidents and escalations.
• Support Major Incident Management (MIM) and engage vendors/TAC teams for critical issues.

Professional & Technical Skills

Must To Have Skills

• Certification - PCNSE , Prisma Access SASE Professional
• Strong understanding of PRISMA SASE
• Strong understanding of Palo Alto On Prem & Cloud FW modules
• Strong understanding of Juniper MIST & Forcescoute NAC
• Good understanding on advance routing protocol
• Moderate understanding on Routing & Switching
• Incident & Problem Management
• Performance & Capacity Management
• Log Analytics and packet analysis

Additional Information

• The candidate should have minimum 5 years of experience in Network Security Operations.
• This position is based at our Chennai office.
• A 15 years full time education is required.

15 years full time education

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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