R&D Engineer - Cyber Security - IDC

Business Information:

Hitachi Energy India Development Centre (IDC) is a research and development facility with around 500 R&D engineers, specialists, and experts, who focus on creating and sustaining digital solutions, new products and technology. This includes product integration, testing, cybersecurity, and certification.  The India Development Centre is situated in Chennai and Bangalore. IDC collaborates with the R&D and Research centres of Hitachi Energy, which are spread across more than 15 locations throughout 12 countries. In the past 20 years, IDC has secured more than 200 international papers and 150+ patents.

Mission Statement:

Hitachi Energy, in Chennai location, is looking for cybersecurity engineers who can contribute in improv-ing the cybersecurity posture of the MACH control system and take it to the next level.

Your Responsibilities:

• Evaluate the cyber security functionalities of product and improve the security posture.

• Work for fulfilling security compliance requirements for the products.

• Perform Threat modeling/ Security assessment for products.

• Perform product hardening, to allow only necessary function for products operation.

• Cybersecurity functionality verification on control system components.

• Participate in Vulnerability handling of the products.

• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your Background:

• Good understanding of cybersecurity principles like cyber security architecture, defense in depth, default deny, least privilege, compartmentalization, privileged initiation, AAA, etc.

• Good understanding of cyber security controls like; IDS/IPS (host and network), hardening, security policies, Malware Protection, Filtering, NGFW, etc.

• Knowledge in Networking, patch management.

• Hands on Experience with protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, SSH, ICMP, DHCP, L2TP, PPTP, DNS, SNMP, RDP, and NTP.

• Windows and Virtual Machine Administration.

• Experience with Security tools like NMAP, Nessus, Wireshark, etc.

• Certifications like MCP/MCITP/MCSE/CEH/CISSP/CISA are advantage.

• Knowledge on security standards like IEC 62443, ISO 27001.

• Hands on experience in automation using Python, PowerShell and Batch scripts

• Knowledge on protocols like IEC 61850, Goose, Modbus is an added advantage.

• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.