Purple Teaming Specialist [T500-24044]

Deutsche Börse; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international exchange organization in Hyderabad is seeking a Purple Teaming Specialist to enhance their security measures against cyber threats. The role involves assessing security posture, developing detection use cases based on real-world attack scenarios, and collaborating with Red and Blue Teams. Exceptional candidates will have a strong background in penetration testing and familiarity with cloud security technologies. This position offers an opportunity to work with top-tier tech talent and make a significant impact on financial market security.

Qualifications

• Experience in a penetration testing or red team role.
• Broad knowledge of IT Security technologies.
• Strong problem-solving skills in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Assess the organization’s security posture against evolving threats.
• Drive improvements for breach and attack simulation.
• Collaborate with Red and Blue Teams to refine detection strategies.

Skills

Penetration testing experience

Knowledge of cyber threats

Scripting skills (Python, Bash)

Report writing

Team collaboration

Education

Technical certification in Red Teaming or Penetration Testing

Tools

SIEM

Cloud Security (GCP, Azure, AWS)

Job description

Headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, Deutsche Börse Group is a leading international exchange organization and market infrastructure provider. They empower investors, financial institutions, and companies by facilitating access to global capital markets.

Their India centre is located in Hyderabad, serves as a key strategic hub and comprises India’s top-tier tech talent. They focus on crafting advanced IT solutions that elevate market infrastructure and services. Deutsche Börse Group in India is composed of a team of capital market engineers forming the backbone of financial markets worldwide.

Purple Teaming Specialist

The Group Security department directly contributes to execution of the Deutsche Börse Group information security strategy. As a central service provider for the Group entities, Group Security is responsible to protect information assets in terms of safety, integrity, confidentiality, authenticity, and availability by enforcing information security controls based on the relevant regulatory requirements and follows the international standard ISO / IEC 27000-series on the Information Security Management System.

Your area of work:

Cyber Defense Framework team operates in strict cooperation with CERT, SOC, Threat Intelligence and Cyber Analytics teams (responsible for SIEM use case implementation). Cyber Defense Framework team is responsible for a wide range of essential tasks, including defining comprehensive requirements, setting strategic goals, and conducting maturity evaluations to enhance our threat detection capabilities. This includes Roadmap definition, Purple Teaming, Internal Red Teaming, Threat Modeling and Threat Management structured against MITRE.

We are looking for a Security Engineer (Offensive Security) to enhance our efforts in Purple Teaming, Internal Red Teaming and Threat Modeling. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of attack scenarios and a strong background in leveraging real-world cyber attacks in a secure matter. You will work closely with security teams to analyze attack trends, emulate cybersecurity attacks and optimize monitoring rules.

Your Responsibilities:

• Assess the organization’s security posture against evolving threats and propose enhancements.
• Drive further improvements for breach and attack simulation efforts.
• Understand threat scenarios and threat actor approach to perform red team / penetration testing exercises and suggest remediations and support closures.
• Threat actor profiling and understanding operations of threat actors.
• Transpose defensive strategies and relevant threat hunting from threat actor’s attack approach.
• Understand how external attacks happen and support remediation of external threats.
• Develop and refine detection use cases based on MITRE ATT&CK and real-world attack scenarios.
• Collaborate with Red and Blue Teams to continuously refine detection and response strategies.

Your Profile:

• Previous experience in a penetration testing or red team role is considered a strong asset as well as involvement in threat detection investigations.
• Solid IT Security technical background and broad knowledge of IT and Information Security technologies especially in the frame of threat detection and security monitoring (e.g. SIEM, EDR, Cloud Security).
• Solid understanding of cyber threats and appropriate detection measures.
• Familiar with threat-informed cyber defense, esp. using MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Deliverable-oriented, with strong problem-solving skills and adaptation on complex and highly regulated environment.
• Team player willing to cooperate with multiple colleagues across office locations.
• Good report-writing skills to present the results of an attack simulation.
• Scripting skills (e.g. Python, Bash, Perl) is considered a strong asset.
• Technical certification in the area of Red Teaming / Penetration Testing / Purple Teaming or Threat Hunting (e.g. GIAC, OSCP, CEH, etc.) are considered as a strong asset.
• Familiarity with cloud security and performing security assessments in GCP, Azure, and AWS.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English; French / German language skills will be an asset.