Security Engineer

Position Summary

The Security Engineer will design, build, and maintain engineering solutions that strengthen our 24/7 Managed Detection and Response service while delivering client-facing projects. The role combines hands-on support for the Security Operations Centre with cloud engineering, automation, migration, production support, and transformation work. The role reports to the Head of Engineering and works closely with SOC analysts, IT operations, and client technical teams.

About Talanos Cybersecurity

Talanos Cybersecurity is a Managed Security Service Provider serving enterprise clients across financial services, legal, hospitality, and IT sectors. Our Managed Detection and Response service is operated by in-house Security Operations Centres located in India, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. We deliver engineering work that improves security telemetry, automates detection and response, and helps clients transition to secure cloud and hybrid environments.

Primary Responsibilities

SOC Support

• Operational engineering to maintain, tune, and extend detection logic, alert pipelines, and playbooks.
• Tooling enhancement to improve SOC efficiency through automation, telemetry enrichment, and integrations.
• Incident engineering to support investigations with scripts, enrichment sources, and data pulls.
• Monitoring and metrics to produce telemetry visualisation and SLAs for detection coverage and operational reliability.

Engineering and Client Projects

Cloud solutions design and implementation using Python and Microsoft Azure services including Functions and Logic Apps.

• Migrations and transitions to assist clients moving workloads to cloud or hybrid platforms with security-first designs.
• Production support for live services including root cause analysis, hotfixes, and post-incident improvements.
• Deliverables for clients including automation, dashboards, runbooks, and secure architecture guidance.

Operational Excellence

• Collaboration with IT Operations on lifecycle management, change control, and problem resolution.
• Standards and practices to embed secure engineering principles across internal and client environments.
• Documentation and training to capture runbooks, deployment guides, and knowledge transfer for SOC and client teams.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security, or related discipline.
• Minimum experience four years in an engineering role and at least two years in cyber security or SOC-adjacent work.
• Programming strong skills in Python for automation, parsing, and tooling.
• Cloud experience demonstrable experience with Microsoft Azure services including Azure Functions and Logic Apps.
• Windows infrastructure familiarity with Windows server administration, Active Directory, and virtualization platforms.
• Operational mindset experience working with production support processes, change control, and incident response.

Preferred Skills and Tools

• Microsoft 365 administration and security management.
• Security tooling familiarity with SIEM, EDR, antivirus, IPS IDS, and firewalls.
• Automation and scripting PowerShell, Bash, and Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Observability and visualisation experience with Power BI, Grafana, Kibana, or similar.
• DevOps and source control Git, CI CD pipelines, and automated testing.

Location Employment and Application

• Location Delhi, India.
• Employment type Full-time with occasional shift work to support 24/7 operations.
• Remuneration Competitive salary and benefits aligned with experience.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹395,097.20 - ₹1,539,836.17 per year

Location:

• Delhi, Delhi (Required)

Work Location: Remote