**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. Job Category: 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.