Sr. IoT/Cyber Security Specialist
Confidential client · Pune/Ahmedabad · Full-time
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as subject matter expert for cyber/product security, providing technical design and architectural leadership.
- Work closely with product and engineering teams to understand connected devices, document security architecture, attack surface, trust boundaries, and data flows.
- Develop and maintain threat models, identify cybersecurity threats, and define security mitigations.
- Identify and document product cybersecurity requirements, conduct risk analysis, verification and validation protocols.
- Coach and mentor software and firmware development teams on security best practices.
- Define, verify, and guide implementation of security mitigations.
- Develop, maintain, and implement security policies, standards, and procedures across the organization.
- Design and conduct cybersecurity risk assessments and tests, propose compensating controls.
- Provide expertise on OWASP/CWE vulnerabilities, emerging threats, especially in the automotive domain.
- Lead implementation of PKI, secure boot, secure communications, identity management, secure firmware updates, and configuration management.
- Perform binary hardening, memory protection, radio security analysis, and reverse engineering activities.
- Conduct penetration testing, vulnerability analysis, and use SCA/SAST/DAST tools.
- Ensure compliance with standards such as ISO 27001/2, NERC, NIST, IEC 62443, GDPR, HIPAA, etc.
What We're Looking For:
- 7-12 years of experience, with at least 10 years in software engineering focused on secure product design.
- Automotive industry experience preferred.
- Strong knowledge of secure software development lifecycle, threat modeling, risk assessment, and security‑by‑design principles.
- Hands‑on experience with threat modeling tools (e.g., SD Element) and penetration testing frameworks.
- Proficiency with SCA, SAST, DAST tools, binary analysis, reverse engineering, and cryptographic implementations (PKI, AES, IPSEC, etc.).
- Familiarity with UNECE security standards and internal communication protocols, JTAG, firmware extraction, etc.
- Experience with cyber security standards (ISO 27001/2, NERC, NIST, IEC 62443, GDPR, HIPAA, etc.).
- Programming experience in languages such as C/C++, Java, Python, etc.
- Relevant security certifications (e.g., CISSP‑ISSEP, CISSP‑ISSAP, CEH, OSCP, CSSLP, GIAC, etc.) are a plus.
- Strong communication skills, self‑driven, eager to learn, positive attitude, and problem‑solving mindset.
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