Senior Security Engineer
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- Hybrid · Bengaluru
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 3 October 2026.
About the role
Senior Security Engineer
We are looking for a hands-on Senior Security Engineer to own and improve security operations across our corporate IT, cloud, and Kubernetes environments. The role covers security monitoring and detection, incident response, security tooling and integrations, automation, and day-to-day IT security.
What You'll Do
- Own security monitoring, triage, investigation, and incident response across endpoint, identity, email, network, SaaS, GCP, and GKE environments.
- Operate and improve security capabilities across SIEM, EDR, DLP, cloud security, network security, and identity security.
- Integrate security tools and telemetry into the SOC to improve visibility, correlation, investigation, and response.
- Build and tune detections, correlation rules, alerts, dashboards, and monitoring use cases based on attack scenarios and observed activity.
- Build automated workflows for alert enrichment, triage, investigation, containment, escalation, and response using APIs and scripting.
- Investigate incidents end-to-end, including scoping, evidence collection, root-cause analysis, containment, remediation, and post-incident actions.
- Monitor and investigate GCP and GKE activity, including IAM changes, service-account activity, cloud audit events, Kubernetes activity, workload behaviour, and network events.
- Identify gaps and misconfigurations across cloud IAM, Kubernetes RBAC, workloads, containers, secrets, network controls, logging, and security configurations.
- Manage and tune DLP controls and investigate potential data-exfiltration or policy-violation events.
- Investigate phishing and account-compromise activity, including email headers, URLs, domains, attachments, authentication events, and indicators of compromise.
- Support IT security across endpoints, device posture, identity and access, SaaS applications, privileged access, and security configurations.
- Work with infrastructure and engineering teams to remediate security findings and improve logging, detection coverage, and preventive controls.
- Maintain practical incident-response playbooks, detection documentation, and investigation procedures.
What You'll Need
- 5–7 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience, with strong experience in security operations, security engineering, or incident response.
- Strong hands-on experience with SIEM and EDR, including log analysis, detection development, alert tuning, investigation, and response.
- Experience integrating security technologies and telemetry using APIs, webhooks, scripts, or automation/orchestration platforms.
- Experience building and automating SOC and incident-response workflows rather than relying entirely on manual triage.
- Hands-on experience securing and monitoring Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Strong understanding of GCP IAM, service accounts, audit logging, VPC networking, storage, KMS, and cloud security controls.
- Hands-on security experience with Kubernetes/GKE, including RBAC, service accounts, namespaces, secrets, network policies, workload security, container security, and audit logging.
- Ability to investigate activity across cloud control-plane, Kubernetes, container/workload, identity, and network telemetry.
- Good understanding of DLP and experience tuning policies and investigating data-security events.
- Strong networking fundamentals, including DNS, HTTP/S, TCP/IP, VPNs, proxies, firewalls, and network traffic analysis.
- Experience investigating phishing, credential compromise, endpoint threats, suspicious network activity, cloud events, and container/Kubernetes security events.
- Understanding of common attacker behaviours and techniques, including privilege escalation, credential abuse, persistence, lateral movement, and data exfiltration.
- Working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and its practical application to detection and investigation.
- Hands-on scripting or automation experience with Python, shell scripting, or similar technologies.
- Ability to independently take a security event from initial detection through investigation, containment, remediation, and closure.
Good to Have
- Experience building or maturing a SOC/security operations capability in a cloud-first environment.
- Experience with security orchestration and automated response.
- Experience with cloud security posture management, vulnerability management, and container/workload security.
- Experience developing custom detections using telemetry from multiple security and infrastructure sources.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD security from an operational security perspective.
What this role asks for
Standard for security roles
Cybersecurity · Python
Common in security postings at any company.
Read against Arcana Analytics's other open postings on this site.
The team: Engineering
This role is one of 13 open in Engineering.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (8 of 13), PostgreSQL (4 of 13), SQL (4 of 13), Airflow (3 of 13), AWS (3 of 13), CI/CD (3 of 13), ClickHouse (3 of 13)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior AI Engineer — Inference & Agent Systems posted Mar 15
- Staff Frontend Engineer posted Mar 6
- Senior AI Engineer — Inference & Agent Systems posted Mar 4
- Staff Software Engineer (Data Platform) posted Feb 27
- IT Support Engineer posted Sep 26
- DevOps Engineer posted Sep 11
- QA Engineer (Manual) posted Sep 10
- Staff Software Engineer posted Jun 13
- Senior Data Engineer posted Jun 13
- iOS Developer posted Jun 13
- Senior Data Scientist posted Jun 13
- Senior Frontend Engineer posted Jun 13
From the team and dates on Arcana Analytics's own job board.
Salary context
33 other open postings titled Senior Security Engineer state a salary: median USD 170,000 to USD 227,000 a year.
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