Security Engineer

Yext (NYSE : YEXT) is the leading brand visibility platform, built for a world where discovery and engagement happen everywhere — across AI search, traditional search, social media, websites, and direct communications. Powered by over 2 billion trusted data points and a suite of integrated products, Yext provides brands the clarity, control, and confidence to perform across digital channels. From real-time insights to AI-driven recommendations and execution at scale, Yext turns a brand's digital presence into a competitive advantage, which is only possible through our team of innovators and enthusiastic collaborators. Join us and experience firsthand why we are consistently recognized as a 'Best Place to Work' globally by industry leaders such as Built In, Fortune, and Great Place To Work®!

The Information Security Engineer is responsible for the implementation, execution and maintenance of technology solutions to mitigate risk, to protect the IT and Engineering environments by reducing the probability of, and minimizing the effects of, damage caused by malware, malicious activities and security events.

The individual will help protect the company by deploying, tuning, and managing security tools across the computing environment, as well as provide security incident response cycle support. They should have a passion and skills for identifying the latest cyber threats!

This role is fully on-site in our Hyderabad, India office

What You'll Do

• Lead and participate in major day-to-day operational aspects of the security engineering team including improvement of current security controls while constantly identifying areas of needed improvement
• Deep hands-on security experience with cloud providers, such as AWS, GCP, Azure
• Understanding of automated security testing approaches and tools
• Experience with proactive integration of security into the development process
• ead continuous improvement efforts of out security tools and systems (focus on SIEM, IDS, EDR Tools)
• Work with our customers (Security Operations, Incident Response, and Product teams) to incorporate high quality security alerting into their operational workflows
• Improve overall security practitioner efficiency through process automation
• Foster and promote collaboration among all members of the IT, Infrastructure, and Risk Management Departments.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code and CI / CD pipelines tools (i.e. Jenkins, Teamcity, CircleCI etc..)
• Responsible for advanced hunting for Cybersecurity threats / vulnerabilities and assisting with their remediation, maintaining / operating the portfolio of security tools, creating / maintaining run books and performing troubleshooting.
• Lead the technical evaluation of new security technologies that address both current and future needs based on emerging threats and industry trends.
• Work with internal and external audit teams as appropriate for independent security, SOX and SOC audits
• Collect data for metrics and generate reports; assist the Information Security Director in developing policies and procedures for logging, monitoring response and escalations

What You Have

Bonus Points

Perks And Benefits

At Yext, we take pride in our diverse workforce and prioritize creating an engaged and connected working environment. Our ambitious mission is to transform the enterprise with AI search, and we know that to achieve that, we need a global team of innovators, visionary thought leaders, and enthusiastic collaborators passionate about making a meaningful impact in the world and contributing to an extraordinary culture.

Benefits

We believe that people do their best when they feel their best — and to feel their best, they must be well-informed, fuelled, and rested. To ensure our employees are at their best, we offer a wide range of benefits and perks, including :

Yext is committed to building an inclusive and diverse culture where every person is seen, heard, and valued. We believe in equal employment opportunity and welcome employees and applicants of all races, colors, ethnicities, religions, creeds, national origins, ancestries, genetics, sexes, pregnancy or childbirth, sexual orientations, genders (including gender identity or nonbinary or nonconformity and / or status as a trans individual), ages, physical or mental disabilities, citizenships, marital, parental and / or familial status, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. It is Yext's policy to provide reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities as required by law. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, or participating in the employee selection process, please complete this form.

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Skills Required

Powershell, Ansible, Ids, Siem, Bash, Python