Senior Security Operations Engineer

Commvault; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Commvault in Bengaluru is seeking a skilled engineer for security automation. The role involves building automation tools, collaborating with DevOps, and improving security tool efficiency.

Candidates should have over 6 years of experience in software engineering, specializing in application security, along with proficiency in languages such as Python and Java. Attractive opportunities for mentorship and continual improvement await.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience focused on security automation or application security.
• Proven experience with security scanning tools such as Checkmarx and Burp Suite.
• Excellent understanding of application security principles and remediation techniques.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, implement, and maintain scalable automation tools for application security.
• Collaborate with developers to integrate security automation into CI/CD workflows.
• Monitor security automation tool results and generate actionable insights.

Skills

Security automation

Application security

Python

Ruby

Go

Java

Problem-solving

Tools

SAST

DAST

SCA

CI/CD tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Job Overview

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks—keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company’s unique AI‑powered platform combines best‑in‑class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning‑fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, implement, and maintain scalable automation tools and pipelines for application security, including static (SAST), dynamic (DAST), and software composition analysis (SCA) scanning.
• Collaborate with developers, security engineers, and DevOps teams to integrate security automation seamlessly into CI/CD workflows.
• Identify opportunities for improving security tool coverage, efficiency, and performance.
• Develop custom scripts, plugins, or APIs to extend the capabilities of security testing and remediation automation.
• Monitor and analyze security automation tool results, generate actionable insights, and support incident response and remediation efforts.
• Stay up to date on the latest security automation trends, technologies, and best practices, and advocate for continuous improvement in tooling and processes.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to other engineers on secure coding and secure development lifecycle practices.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on security automation or application security.
• Proficiency in Python, Ruby, Go, Java, or similar programming languages.
• Strong understanding of application security principles, vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top Ten), and remediation techniques.
• Hands‑on experience implementing and configuring security scanning tools such as SAST (e.g., Checkmarx, Fortify), DAST (e.g., Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP), and SCA (e.g., Snyk, WhiteSource).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) is a plus.
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes and how to integrate security automation seamlessly.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with cloud‑native security automation (e.g., in AWS, Azure, or GCP environments).
• Familiarity with container security (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and related security scanning solutions.
• Knowledge of threat modelling and security risk assessments.

Equal Opportunity

Commvault is an equal‑opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status and we will not discriminate based on such characteristics or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we work.