Security Administrator - Leading Bank - Aluva (Kerala)

Acura Solutions; Ernakulam; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Acura Solutions seeks a security operations professional to support security technology administration, monitoring and governance. You will manage security platforms, review configurations, and assist in incident response across infrastructure and applications.

The role emphasizes vulnerability management, security assurance, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to implement risk controls and maintain compliance.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in information security operations, security administration, network and endpoint security.
• Experience with SOC operations and vulnerability management or related areas.
• Familiarity with security monitoring and incident response processes.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain security platforms (firewalls, IDS/IPS, WAF, secure web gateway or proxy, VPN, endpoint security, DLP, PAM and monitoring tools).
• Apply changes, upgrades, patches, license renewals and rule-base updates via change-management process.
• Review configurations and access privileges against standards and least privilege.
• Maintain inventories, architecture details, configuration records and runbooks for security solutions.
• Review alerts, logs and exception reports; coordinate with SOC and other teams for investigations.
• Support incident triage, containment, eradication, recovery and evidence preservation.
• Track corrective actions from security incidents and confirm closure.
• Participate in cyber incident response exercises and disaster recovery tests.

Skills

Security operations

Network security

Endpoint security

SOC operations

Vulnerability management

Tools

Firewalls

IDS/IPS

Web Application Firewall

VPN

SIEM

DLP

Privileged Access Management

Job description

Mandatory experience: Hands-on experience in information security operations, security administration, network security, endpoint security, SOC operations, vulnerability management or a closely related area.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Security Technology Administration

• Administer and maintain assigned security platforms, such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, web application firewall, secure web gateway or proxy, VPN, endpoint security, data loss prevention, privileged access management and security monitoring tools.
• Implement approved configuration changes, upgrades, patches, licence renewals and rule-base updates through the applicable change-management process.
• Review configurations and access privileges against approved security standards, baselines and the principle of least privilege.
• Maintain accurate inventories, architecture details, configuration records, rule review evidence and operating procedures for assigned security solutions.

2. Security Monitoring and Incident Support

• Review security alerts, logs and exception reports and coordinate investigation with the SOC, infrastructure, application and service-provider teams.
• Support incident triage, containment, eradication, recovery, evidence preservation and root-cause analysis as assigned.
• Track corrective actions arising from security incidents and confirm closure evidence.
• Participate in cyber incident response exercises, disaster recovery tests and resilience assessments.

3. Vulnerability and Security Assurance

• Coordinate vulnerability assessment and penetration testing activities for infrastructure, applications and security devices.
• Review findings, assign remediation actions to the relevant owners and monitor closure within defined timelines.
• Validate remediation through retesting or other approved evidence and elevate overdue or high-risk items.
• Support security hardening reviews and periodic control-effectiveness assessments.

4. Project, Audit and Governance Support

• Review security requirements for new systems, major changes, third-party integrations and technology projects.
• Provide technical evidence and clarifications for internal, external and regulatory audits.
• Support implementation of information security policies, standards and approved risk-treatment plans.
• Prepare accurate operational dashboards, exception reports and status updates for management review.