Cybersecurity Engineer – Threat Hunting & Security Validation

Practice - CIS - Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services

About Cloud Infrastructure & Security Services

Cognizant’s Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice (CIS), is all about embracing digital transformation by driving core modernization holistically across layers. We help customers transform infrastructure and workplace to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the digital era. Our holistic approach delivers key results for our customers by achieving cloud driven modernization and workplace and operational transformation to run the business in a secure environment.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated Cybersecurity Analyst with expertise in Threat Hunting, Security Validation, and Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS) to strengthen the organization's threat detection and response capabilities. This role will focus on proactively identifying threats, validating security controls, assessing detection effectiveness, and improving overall cyber resilience. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, hands-on experience with Splunk and security monitoring platforms, and a solid understanding of modern adversary tactics and the MITRE ATT&CK framework. This position requires close collaboration with Security Operations, Incident Response, and Engineering teams to continuously enhance security monitoring and threat defense capabilities.

* Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*

In this role, you will

• Conduct proactive threat hunting activities to identify indicators of compromise, suspicious behaviors, and emerging threats across enterprise environments.
• Perform Security Validation and Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS) exercises to evaluate the effectiveness of security controls and detection capabilities.
• Analyze security events, logs, alerts, and telemetry data using Splunk and other security monitoring platforms.
• Review, test, and v