Cybersecurity Engineer III

Nykaa is looking for a Cybersecurity Engineer to strengthen its cloud and infrastructure security. The role involves designing secure cloud architectures, building security solutions, automating security workflows, and leveraging AI/ML for threat detection, vulnerability assessment, and incident response.


Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement security solutions including firewalls, encryption, IDS/IPS and perimeter defences.
  • Build and manage secure architectures across AWS, Azure and GCP.
  • Integrate security controls into the SDLC, DevOps and cloud infrastructure.
  • Drive automation across vulnerability management and incident response.
  • Implement data encryption, tokenisation, masking, classification and access controls.
  • Leverage AI/ML for anomaly detection, threat classification and predictive vulnerability assessment.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams and drive security initiatives, policies and best practices.


Requirements:

  • 8+ years of overall Cybersecurity/Engineering experience.
  • 5+ years in cybersecurity, with strong expertise in Cloud Security, Perimeter Security and Security Engineering.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP, IAM, encryption and security groups.
  • Strong knowledge of firewalls, VPN, IDS/IPS and network security.
  • Experience with AI/ML for cybersecurity, including anomaly detection and threat classification.
  • Programming/scripting experience with Python, R, TensorFlow, Keras or similar tools.
  • Familiarity with AWS GuardDuty, Azure Sentinel or equivalent cloud-native security tools.
  • Experience in threat intelligence, vulnerability management and incident response.
  • Keywords: Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, Security Engineering, AWS, Azure, GCP, IAM, Network Security, Perimeter Security, Firewall, VPN, IDS/IPS, Vulnerability Management, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, AI/ML Security, Python, GuardDuty, Azure Sentinel.
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