Security Platform Engineer

NTT DATA; Telangana; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a seasoned Security Platform Engineer to drive problem resolution and mentor the team. This role focuses on operational security tasks including monitoring, incident detection and response, and maintaining content tuning across our security tools.

You will work in a 24/7 global team, handling escalations, documenting best practices, and coordinating with clients and internal stakeholders to ensure rapid incident resolution and ongoing service reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology or related field.
• Relevant networking certifications or security training an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Operate in a 24/7 on-call/shift rotation supporting security operations.
• Tune and maintain security tooling and content (logging, rules, alerts).
• Detect, investigate and respond to security incidents across endpoints, networks and servers.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure timely incident resolution and reporting.
• Document incident details, root causes, and remediation actions.
• Identify automation opportunities to speed up incident response.

Skills

SIEM monitoring

Security architecture

Incident response

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related

Tools

SIEM tools

Endpoint protection

Network security

Job description

Make an impact with NTT DATA

Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.

Your day at NTT DATA

The Security Platform Engineer is a seasoned subject matter expert, responsible for facilitating problem resolution and mentoring for the overall team.

This role performs operational security tasks such as performance and availability monitoring, log monitoring, security incident detection and response, security event reporting, and content maintenance (tuning).

The Security Platform Engineer is responsible for detecting and monitoring escalated threats and suspicious activity affecting the organization's technology domain (servers, networks, appliances and all infrastructure supporting production applications for the enterprise, as well as development environments).

Key responsibilities

• Works as part of a 24/7 team working on rotational shifts.
• Works as part of Platform and Content Engineering handling tunings, stake holder requests, escalations, reporting, trainings.
• Administers the organization's security tools to gather security logs from environment.
• Performs lifecycle management of the supported security tools/technologies, Break-fix, Patching, Live update.
• Adheres to SOPs and notify stake holders on log flow/log format issues.
• Documents best practices.
• Identifies opportunities to make automations which will help the incident response team.
• Performs security incident handling and response from several vectors including End Point Protection and Enterprise Detection and response tools, attack analysis, malware analysis, network forensics, computer forensics, and a broad range of skills in LAN technologies, Windows and Linux O/S’s, and general security infrastructure.
• Carries out agreed maintenance tasks.
• Ensures usage of knowledge articles in incident diagnosis and resolution and assist with updating as and when required.
• Performs defined tasks to monitor service delivery against service level agreements and maintains records of relevant information.
• Investigates causes of incidents and seeks resolution.
• Escalates unresolved incidents and follow up until incident is resolved.
• Provides service recovery, following resolution of incidents.
• Documents and closes resolved incidents according to agreed procedures.
• Investigates and identifies root cause of incidents and assist with the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures.
• Maintains knowledge of specific specialisms, provides detailed advice regarding their application.
• Ensures efficient and comprehensive resolution of incidents, including ensuring that repairs are carried out by coordinating product requests, working with other team members.
• Logs all such incidents in a timely manner with the required level of detail with all the necessary.
• Cooperates with all stakeholders including client IT environments, vendors and carriers to expedite diagnosis of errors and problems and to identify a resolution.

To thrive in this role, you need to have

• Seasoned working knowledge on implementation and monitoring of any SIEM or security tools/technologies.
• Seasoned knowledge on security architecture, worked across different security technologies.
• Customer service orientated and pro-active thinking.
• Problem solver who is highly driven and self-organized.
• Great attention to detail.
• Good analytical and logical thinking.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
• Team player with the ability to work well with others and in group with colleagues and stakeholders.

Academic qualifications and certifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology or related field.
• Relevant level of Networking certifications such as…