Cyber Security Engineer

• *Company:**
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Qualcomm India Private Limited

• *Job Area:**
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Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group \> Cyber Security Engineering

• *General Summary:**

Addresses the requirement for engineering practitioners in cybersecurity functions. Protects vital electronic systems and data from attack, as well as outsmarting and responding appropriately to sophisticated cyber\-attacks. Maintains and applies working knowledge of industry standard cybersecurity frameworks and standards to analyze and prioritize cybersecurity risks across the enterprise and recommend treatment options. Researches attempted or successful efforts to compromise application, system, network or data security and designs countermeasures. Identifies, designs, implements, executes and assesses technical and procedural capabilities to effectively identify, prevent, detect, and respond to evolving cyber threats which threaten company electronic information, devices, applications, and data.

• *Minimum Qualifications:**

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

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High school diploma or equivalent and 2\+ years of cybersecurity\-relevant work experience.

As a Cyber Security Engineer at Qualcomm

You will be collaborating with our engineering team to refine and enhance our security strategies across our large, diverse cloud ecosystem. From your current skillset to those you obtain, your expertise will be utilized to drive the future of our cloud security software. You’ll play a key role in expanding our product roadmap, automating escalations and remediations, and offering insight into potential threats along with their mitigations. You’ll also be involved in taking the knowledge you have and gain from our own CI/CD and Devops processes and apply them practically to contribute to and solve real world problems with dynamic business units and functions. Tying together information from multiple information sources to assist with operational and risk metrics, dashboards, and reporting to highlight overall security posture, risks, and opportunities with users, service teams, and leadership, emphasizing transparency and open communication. There are many exciting aspects, opportunities, and challenges you will face as a member of the team.

We are a collaborative team that is always learning, sharing, and researching. You will work with engineers and business stakeholder across the company to secure complex infrastructure and applications. You will need communication, analytical, and interpersonal skills, and the ability to learn and grow in a rapidly evolving environment.

We are looking for motivated people who have experience in the areas listed, but even more importantly a strong desire to learn and grow as an engineer on the Cloud Cybersecurity team.

Responsibilities

• Work with the internal team on creating best practices and integrating security considerations in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Analyze events and develop policies within the cloud security platform.
• Leverage infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation to automate the provisioning and management of cloud resources.
• Assist with security baselines, principles, and strategies.
• Participate in the planning and execution of cloud security roadmaps.
• Partner with the cloud team to securely organize and manage cloud account lifecycle, access, security controls, and policies.
• Leverage programming skills to develop tools that streamline security processes and reduce operational overhead.

Required Qualifications

• 2\+ years working in cloud environments (Azure or GCP preferred)
• 2\+ years programming experience (Python preferred)
• Fundamental understanding of Devops and best practices (static and dynamic code analysis)
• Fundamental understanding of and experience with Scrum/Agile development
• Fundamental understanding of and experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Basic understanding of security principles including Identity and Access Management, network security, logging, encryption, secure access, and vulnerability management.

Preferred Qualifications

Qualcomm values people from all walks of life and backgrounds. We understand not everyone will meet all the below qualifications on day one. That's okay! If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, if you cover even some of these preferences \- we encourage you to apply.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or other related fields and 3\+ years of Cybersecurity relevant work experience OR 4\+ years Cybersecurity\-relevant work experience without a bachelor’s degree.
• 3\+ years of programming experience (Python preferred)
• 3\+ years working in cloud environments (Azure or GCP preferred)
• A basic understanding of cloud security best practices, threat modeling, and offensive techniques.
• Expert understanding of and experience with Scrum/Agile development.
• Expert understanding of and experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Certifications are a plus but not required (Azure AZ900, Google Associate Cloud Sec Engineer, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer)
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