Sr IT Security Engineer

ACI Worldwide


Job Location:

Pune - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 7 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

Job Purpose

The Sr. Security Engineer is responsible for designing implementing hardening and supporting enterprise security capabilities that protect company systems platforms and information assets. This role blends hands-on security engineering with operational execution across cloud security security operations incident support and AI security use cases.

The position partners with engineering cloud platform application data/AI and operations teams to reduce risk improve detection and response outcomes and support audit and control expectations. As a senior-level role this position also contributes technical leadership through documentation standardization mentoring and continuous improvement.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

  • Design implement and continuously improve secure configurations and guardrails across enterprise and cloud environments including identity and access controls network protections encryption secrets management logging and platform hardening.

  • Engineer administer and support enterprise security technologies spanning endpoint security vulnerability management SIEM/logging identity management monitoring detection and cryptographic controls.

  • Drive remediation of security findings by prioritizing critical and high-risk issues validating corrective actions and improving repeatable control patterns.

  • Build operate and enhance security operations capabilities including detection engineering SIEM/SOAR workflows alert triage investigation support incident response playbooks and operational runbooks.

  • Conduct or support incident investigations root-cause analysis containment and eradication activities and lessons-learned follow-through.

  • Participate in the on-call support rotation for security incidents provide technical support during active investigations and response activities and contribute to post-incident remediation and continuous improvement.

  • Develop and maintain technical documentation engineering standards implementation procedures and evidence-quality artifacts to support operational consistency and audit readiness.

  • Partner with engineering cloud application and AI/ML stakeholders to implement scalable security controls and secure-by-default patterns.

  • Perform technical assessments and proof-of-concept evaluations of new security solutions and recommend changes to procedures standards or tooling where appropriate.

  • Implement practical security controls for AI-enabled systems and workflows including governance access controls monitoring and risk reduction for model and application use cases.

  • Participate in audits control reviews and security assessments; support evidence collection traceability and remediation tracking.

  • Mentor less experienced engineers and contribute to technical leadership across the team.

  • Perform other duties as assigned and understand and adhere to all corporate policies including the ACI Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.

Qualifications (Education Experience Knowledge Skills and Abilities)

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Cybersecurity MIS or related field; equivalent practical experience may be considered.

  • 5 years of experience in security engineering and/or security operations with demonstrated hands-on delivery.

  • Strong working knowledge of security fundamentals across identity and access management encryption network security secure logging/telemetry configuration hardening and vulnerability/risk remediation.

  • Experience implementing and supporting security controls in at least one major cloud environment; direct experience across both AWS and Azure is strongly preferred.

  • Demonstrated experience with security operations processes and tooling such as SIEM/SOAR detection engineering alert triage incident support security scanning or operational playbooks.

  • Demonstrated ability to translate security findings into practical engineering improvements documentation and measurable operational outcomes.

  • Experience developing technical documentation standards and runbooks for repeatable operational execution.

  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

  • Ability to work independently on complex assignments with limited day-to-day supervision.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with regulated or audited environments and supporting evidence traceability or control mapping.

  • Experience with automation and scripting in Python PowerShell Bash Go Ansible or similar tooling.

  • Experience with policy-as-code infrastructure-as-code security gates or continuous compliance patterns.

  • Experience with container Kubernetes or workload identity security.

  • Experience with threat hunting post-incident remediation and engineering-driven control improvements.

  • Familiarity with AI/LLM application security threat modeling secure evaluation/testing and governance approaches.

  • Advanced knowledge of security standards and frameworks.

  • Experience mentoring junior team members.

Licenses and Certifications

  • Relevant certifications are strongly preferred. Candidates should demonstrate credible competency across cloud security cybersecurity operations and AI / application security through a combination of certifications and directly relevant experience.

Work Environment

  • Standard work environment.

  • Majority of time spent on PC.

  • Participation in an on-call rotation is required to support incident response escalations and urgent security events.

  • Travel may be required on a limited basis.




Required Experience:

Senior IC

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