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Security Research Engineer

1 - 5 years

6 - 10 Lacs

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We are looking for a passionate and technically skilled Security Researcher to join our team and help us stay ahead of evolving cyber threats. This role will focus on building and maintaining honeypot infrastructure, analyzing threat activity, developing detection content, and contributing to the broader security community through advisories and research.
You will work closely with our detection engineering and threat intelligence teams to ensure our SIEM platform stays responsive and adaptive to emerging threats.

What Your Role Entails:

  • Design, deploy, and maintain honeypots and deception infrastructure to collect real-world attack telemetry.
  • Analyze malware samples, attacker behavior, and TTPs captured via honeypots and external threat intelligence sources.
  • Develop and validate prototype detection rules, logic, and analytics for threats observed in the wild.
  • Author timely and insightful threat-advisory reports for internal teams and customers.
  • Assist customers with detection requests, emerging threat queries, and incident support based on real-time intelligence.
  • Work with the detection engineering team to maintain and continuously improve production detection content.
  • Work with data-science team to prototype new product features and provide SME inputs for feature designs

Must-Have Skills:

  • 5+ years in security research, threat intelligence, or malware analysis.
  • Solid understanding of threat actor behaviors, attack frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, etc), and threat intelligence methodologies.
  • Experience with malware reverse engineering, sandboxing, or forensic analysis tools.
  • Deep understanding of Windows/Linux internals (useful for exploit testing, detection validation and log generation)
  • CI/CD Workflows for detection as code
  • Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (eg, Python, PowerShell).
  • Strong communication skills, especially in writing technical documentation and threat reports.
Preferred Skills:

  • Understanding of cloud and hybrid environments and their security challenges.
  • Deep understanding of threat detection for CSPs like AWS and Azure.
  • Experience with honeypot/deception platforms (eg, Cowrie, T-Pot, OpenCanary).
  • Familiarity with SIEM platforms, log analysis, and detection engineering.
  • Contributions to open-source threat intelligence projects or public research/blog posts.
  • Prior experience building detection or research in AI ecosystems
Benefits -

As a full-time employee with Securonix, you will be eligible for the following employee benefits:

  • Health Insurance with a total sum insured is INR 7,50,000
  • Coverage: Self, Spouse, 2 kids, Dependent parents, or parents-in-law
  • Personal Accident with total sum insured is INR 10,00,000
  • Term Life Insurance with a sum assured for employees is 5 times fixed base pay is covered.

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Securonix Consultancy
Securonix Consultancy

Computer and Network Security

Plano Texas

501-1000 Employees

13 Jobs

    Key People

  • Sachin Suri

    CEO
  • Ravi Nair

    CTO

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