Senior Associate Security Platform Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 30, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 28, 2026. NTT DATA scores A on the Alion truth index.
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The Senior Associate Security Platform Engineer is a developing 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 Senior Associate 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.
- 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.
- Document and close resolved incidents according to agreed procedures.
To thrive in this role, you need to have:
- Working knowledge on implementation and monitoring of any SIEM or security tools/technologies.
- 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 CCNA, JNCIA, ACCA, PCNSA, CCSA etc. preferred.
- Relevant level of Security certifications such as AZ-500, SC-200, Security+, CEH, CISSP, CISM etc. will be added advantage.
Required experience:
- Moderate level experience in Security technologies like (Firewall, IPS, IDS, Proxy etc.).
- Moderate level experience in technical support to clients.
- Moderate level experience in diagnosis and troubleshooting.
- Moderate level experience providing remote support in Security Technologies.
- Moderate level experience in SOC/CSIRT Operations.
- Moderate level experience in handling security incidents end to end.
- Knowledge on networking, Linux and security concepts.
- Moderate level experience in configuring/managing security controls such as Firewall, IDS/IPS, EDR, NDR, UTM, Proxy, SOAR, HoneyPots and other security tools.
- Knowledge on log collection mechanism such as Syslog, Log file, DB API.
- Knowledge in security architecture.
- Moderate level experience in Security engineering.
Workplace type:
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