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Job Summary
Job Description – Product Security Engineer / Product Cybersecurity Lead
Prepared in Standard HCL Format
Job Title
Product Security Engineer / Product Cybersecurity Lead
Location
Chennai / Bangalore / Noida / Hyderabad
Band
To be confirmed
Relevant Experience
7–12 Years
Reporting To
Engineering / Product Security Leadership
Role Type
Individual Contributor
1. Role Introduction
HCLTech is looking for a dynamic Product Security Engineer / Product Cybersecurity Lead to strengthen product-related cybersecurity initiatives across engineering and product teams.
The role will partner with development organizations to embed security-by-design practices, improve product security posture, drive awareness, and support secure engineering decision-making across global teams.
This position will work closely with engineering and product stakeholders across the US, Hungary, and India, enabling proactive identification and remediation of security threats, vulnerabilities, and gaps throughout the product lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
2. Key Roles & Responsibilities
Ensuring and driving product related security activities.
Increase product security awareness within the development team.
Analyzing, tracking and following product related threats, vulnerabilities, security gaps and desired solutions.
Maintain cyber security processes and monitoring systems/tools.
Support the development teams through security analyses and threat modelling.
Interact with worldwide engineering and product teams (US, Hungary, India).
Skill Requirements
3. Qualifications / Requirements
Experience analyzing, detecting and remediating cybersecurity issues.
Experience in security, network, system administration, development, or equivalent knowledge.
In-depth knowledge of various operating systems (Linux, Windows).
Practical hands-on experience in a complex system development environment.
Strong product security knowledge and mindset (STIG, vulnerabilities, CVE tracking, security gap analysis).
Ability to analyze and evaluate the impact of changes, defects, and different technology choices.
Good English communication skills.
4. Desired Characteristics
Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions.
Influences through others and builds direct and behind-the-scenes support for change.
Proactively identifies, facilitates and drives project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team.
Other Requirements
5. Preferred Technical Knowledge
Product security engineering
Threat modeling
Vulnerability management and CVE tracking
Security gap analysis
OS hardening and secure system design
Security monitoring and governance tooling
6. Requisition Summary (Concise Version)
Role
Product Security Engineer / Product Cybersecurity Lead
Primary Skills
Product security, threat modelling, vulnerability analysis, CVE tracking, Linux, Windows, security analysis, secure engineering support
Core Responsibilities
Drive product security activities, improve development-team security awareness, track threats/vulnerabilities/gaps, support threat modelling, maintain cybersecurity processes/tools, and collaborate with global engineering/product teams
Preferred Traits
Analytical thinking, influence without authority, proactive issue resolution, and the ability to work through ambiguity
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