Principal Engineer, Cyber Defense

**Equal Opportunity Employer**

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/Disabled/Vets

**Job Description :**

**Job Title: Principle Engineer, Cyber Defense**

**Location: Bengaluru**

**Work Type: Hybrid (3 days mandate in office)**

**What You'll Do**

Research and report on security vulnerabilities and the latest advancements in the Cyber Threat Landscape. Collaborate and coordinate with team members, partners and relevant businesses within the News Corp community.

**Responsibilities**

• **Threat Hunting:**

• Execute threat hunts: Plan and perform structured, unstructured, and intelligence-driven threat hunts across the network, endpoints, and cloud environments.

• Analyze data: Use advanced data analysis techniques to find anomalous behaviors, indicators of compromise (IOCs), and attack patterns in large datasets from sources like SIEM, EDR, and network logs.

• Stay current: Maintain an up-to-date understanding of the evolving threat landscape, attack methodologies, and security technologies through continuous learning.

• Mentor: Guide and train junior analysts on threat-hunting techniques and methodologies.

** Incident Response and Threat Intelligence:**

• Stay up to date with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors related to various tools and platforms.

• Monitor threat intelligence sources and collaborate with external partners to proactively identify and mitigate potential security risks.

• Lead incident response efforts during security breaches or cyber incidents, coordinating with internal teams and external stakeholders to contain and resolve incidents in a timely manner.

• Conduct post-incident reviews and lessons learned sessions to improve incident response processes and enhance overall security posture.

** Security Tool Implementation and Management:**

• Collaborate with teams to develop content to improve detection capabilities in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool

• Evaluate, select, and implement security tools and technologies to enhance the capabilities of the SOC.

• Configure and tune security tools to optimize performance, detection accuracy, and minimize false positives.

• Collaborate with vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure effective integration and interoperability between security tools and systems.

**Required Experience & Qualifications:**

• 10+ years of information security experience

• Advanced knowledge of Security Operations Center (SOC) operations, incident response, and security monitoring practices.

• Prioritise and escalate any issues that could put business objectives, results, or processes at risk.

• In-depth knowledge and experience with current cyber threats and landscape to enterprise environments

• Ability to architect and drive implementation of large-scale cross-company initiatives

• Previous experience with the following tools is required: Splunk, EDR Solutions, Atlassian, ServiceNow, GitHub, Okta, and Microsoft Security products

• Familiarity with incident response frameworks and methodologies, such as the NIST Incident Response Framework or the SANS Incident Response Process, to guide efficient and effective incident handling.

• Strong knowledge of network protocols, network traffic analysis, and network security principles to detect and respond to network-based threats.

• Understanding of cloud security principles and experience in monitoring and securing cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Ability to provide leadership and guidance to team members and to work optimally with technical and non-technical staff

**Desired Qualifications**

• Experience with incident response in cloud platforms [AWS, GCP, etc]

• Practical scripting language knowledge [Python, PowerShell, bash, etc.]

• Incident Response specific or other relevant certifications [ex. GCFA, GCIH, GNFA, GREM, etc.]Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

• Experience working in a large enterprise environment

• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy

• Able to handle confidential material in a professional manner

• Able to transform complex data into meaningful and prioritised action

• Able to create business friendly visualisations for complex datasets

This job is posted with NTS Technology Services Pvt. Ltd.

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News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: news and information services, book publishing, digital real estate services, cable network programming in Australia, and pay-tv distribution in Australia.

Headquartered in New York, the activities of News Corp are conducted primarily in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.