Senior Platform Security Engineer - FTE / Hybrid

Req ID: 396459 

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a Senior Platform Security Engineer (FTE / Hybrid) to join our team in Irving, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).

Job Description – Senior Platform Security Engineer – AI-Powered Penetration Testing Platform

Day to Day Job Duties:

(What this person will do on a daily/weekly basis)

• Lead the end-to-end engineering, build, configuration, integration, certification, deployment, and operationalization of a third-party AI-powered penetration testing platform within the enterprise environment.
• Provision and configure required infrastructure, platform components, security controls, connectivity, and supporting services across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Own the technical certification process for the platform, including security assessments, architecture reviews, vendor validation, compliance reviews, and internal technology-risk approvals.
• Develop and maintain platform architecture diagrams, build documentation, configuration standards, operational runbooks, and certification evidence.
• Serve as the primary technical and engineering interface with third-party vendors throughout platform implementation, certification, upgrades, and ongoing operations.
• Design and implement integrations between the penetration testing platform and enterprise security technologies, including SIEM, SOAR, vulnerability-management, ticketing, and reporting platforms.
• Develop REST APIs, webhooks, event-driven connectors, and data integrations to automate findings ingestion, alert routing, remediation workflows, and downstream security processes.
• Ensure platform integrations comply with enterprise security, networking, architecture, and data-governance standards.
• Provision and manage cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and/or GCP, including compute, networking, storage, containers, IAM, and related services.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies to enable repeatable, controlled, and auditable infrastructure deployment.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for platform deployment, component updates, configuration management, and drift detection.
• Deploy and manage containerized platform components using Docker and Kubernetes environments such as Amazon EKS and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Design and enforce network segmentation, private connectivity, firewall controls, and least-privilege IAM across platform components.
• Manage hybrid platform architecture spanning cloud-hosted and on-premises or co-location environments.
• Provide ongoing operational management of the platform, including health monitoring, patching, capacity management, incident response, upgrades, and configuration changes.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks, alerting frameworks, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Coordinate platform upgrades, vendor releases, patches, and configuration changes through established change-management processes.
• Implement and maintain backup, recovery, resiliency, and business-continuity capabilities for platform components.
• Collaborate with Red Team, Offensive Security, Vulnerability Management, and other security stakeholders to configure and optimize AI-powered penetration testing capabilities.
• Manage platform scope configuration, target onboarding, testing policies, and governance to support safe and compliant penetration testing activities.
• Support findings triage, deduplication, prioritization, and integration into vulnerability-management and remediation workflows.
• Ensure platform components meet enterprise security standards for encryption, secrets management, audit logging, authentication, authorization, and access control.
• Support technology-risk assessments, security reviews, compliance reviews, and internal or external audits related to the platform.
• Maintain platform security and operational risk registers and coordinate remediation and escalation of identified risks.
• Monitor platform health and performance using observability technologies such as Datadog, Amazon CloudWatch, Google Cloud Monitoring, or equivalent tools.

Basic Qualifications:

(What are the skills required for this job with minimum years of experience on each)

• Minimum 7+ years of overall experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Security Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 7+ years of Experience delivering, integrating, and operating complex third-party, vendor-hosted, or hybrid enterprise platforms.
• Minimum 7+ years of Deep hands-on cloud engineering experience with AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Minimum 7+ years of Experience with cloud infrastructure technologies including compute services such as EC2 or GCE, networking, storage, IAM, and containerized workloads.
• Minimum 7+ years of Experience with cloud networking technologies and patterns including VPCs, PrivateLink or equivalent private connectivity, VPNs, routing, and firewalls.
• Minimum 7+ years of  Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent enterprise provisioning tools.
• Minimum 7+ years of Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent technologies.
• Minimum 7+ years of Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including cloud-managed Kubernetes platforms such as EKS and/or GKE.
• Minimum 7+ years of Experience managing the complete lifecycle of third-party technology platforms, including build, certification, integration, deployment, upgrades, and ongoing operations.
• Minimum 7+ years of Experience working with enterprise technology-risk, platform-certification, security-review, and vendor-management processes.
• Minimum 7+ years of Strong understanding of hybrid architectures combining cloud-hosted and on-premises infrastructure.
• Minimum 7+ years of Experience managing connectivity, data flows, dependencies, and operational requirements across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
• Minimum 7+ years of Experience designing and developing APIs, REST integrations, webhooks, and event-driven connectors.
• Minimum 7+ years of Experience integrating enterprise platforms with SIEM, SOAR, vulnerability-management, ticketing, and security-reporting systems.
• Minimum 7+ years of Experience with data ingestion, transformation, and workflow-automation patterns supporting security operations.
• Working knowledge of penetration testing methodologies, vulnerability management, offensive security operations, and remediation workflows.
• Understanding of enterprise security controls, network segmentation, least-privilege access, IAM, encryption, secrets management, and audit logging.
• Minimum 7+ years of Experience configuring and operating security platforms within controlled enterprise production environments.
• Strong platform operations experience, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, patch management, capacity management, and production support.
• Minimum 7+ years of Experience with observability and monitoring technologies such as Datadog, CloudWatch, Google Cloud Monitoring, or equivalent platforms.
• Minimum 7+ years of Experience developing operational documentation, architecture diagrams, implementation procedures, runbooks, and technical standards.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Red Team, Vulnerability Management, Architecture, Risk, Compliance, and vendor teams.

Travel:

Not specified in the source job description.

Degree:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Cloud Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.

Nice to Have:

(But not a must)

• Experience implementing or operating AI-powered penetration testing or automated offensive-security platforms.
• Experience supporting Red Team, penetration testing, vulnerability-management, or attack-simulation programs.
• Experience with advanced security automation and orchestration across SIEM, SOAR, and vulnerability-management platforms.
• Experience operating security platforms within large, highly regulated enterprise environments.
• Experience implementing advanced network segmentation and private-cloud connectivity architectures.
• Experience with enterprise security architecture, technology-risk certification, and security-control validation.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification.
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty certification.
• Google Professional Cloud Architect certification.
• Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification.
• Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) certification.
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification.
• Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) certification.

#LI-NorthAmerica

NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for U.S.-based positions. The starting pay range for this role is $102,675.00 - $171,125.00. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications.

This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance. 

This position is eligible for company benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution, flexible spending or health savings account, life and AD&D insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally-required benefits.

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