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Posted 7 Oct 2026

Cyber Security Analyst

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XILINX INDIA TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED
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7 Oct 2026

About the role

As an Analyst, you will operate as both an alert responder and a hands on detection engineer.

This role goes beyond traditional monitoring - you will investigate and triage threats and actively

improve detection capabilities by closing gaps, tuning noisy rules and deprecating

ineffective detections. You will ensure we has high-quality, high-fidelity detection coverage

across the infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end to end investigation and triage of alerts with clear, high quality documentation

across both on-premises infrastructure and cloud environments ensuring equal depth

and rigor in each area.

• Collaborate with cross functional teams and operate as a frontline defender in a 24×7

setting.

• Identify detection gaps and implement improvements through new or updated

detection rules.

• Reduce false positives by tuning low value alerts and deprecating obsolete detections.

• Develop, review, and validate detection logic against MITRE ATT&CK aligned TTPs.

• Contribute to new use case development based on attacker behavior and maintain

assisted playbooks and SOPs.

• Identify opportunities and implement automation and AI workflows within Detection

Engineering pipelines to optimize operations.

Ideal Candidate Profile

Experience

• 5+ years in security operations in medium/large enterprises.

• Demonstrated experience in both alert triage and detection engineering/content tuning.

• Experience working across global time zones.

Technical Expertise

• Strong SIEM rule-writing skills.

• Hands-on with EDR, NDR, firewall logs.

• Demonstrated expertise in analyzing cloud logs, detecting IAM anomalies, and

interpreting SaaS security alerts to identify and respond to advanced threats.

• Proven ability to assess and defend against threat vectors targeting both on-premises

infrastructure and modern cloud workloads, including containerized and serverless

environments.

• Solid understanding of MITRE ATT&CK; ability to map alerts to TTPs.

• Scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python) for enrichment/automation.

Soft Skills

• High-quality technical writing and documentation.

• Ability to operate with minimal direction and take end to end ownership.

• Comfortable handling ambiguity and making analytical decisions.Comments for Suppliers:

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