Unisys Hiring Network Security Engineer in Bangalore | Onsite

Job Overview

Unisys is seeking a Network Security Engineer for its team in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. This is a full-time opportunity focused on firewall security, network troubleshooting, cloud networking, security operations, and operational support. The role calls for foundational experience with enterprise firewall platforms and the ability to work with senior security engineers on network protection, detection, and response activities.

The position covers Fortinet and Palo Alto firewall environments, vendor-neutral firewall concepts, Microsoft Azure networking, security monitoring, change execution, documentation, ticket workflows, and operational reporting.

Experience

The stated eligibility is a BA/BS degree with 0–2 years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. The job description does not identify a required academic major or a specific degree branch.

Key Firewall Skills

Fortinet FortiGate

• Navigate FortiOS through its command-line interface and graphical interface.
• Understand interface, zone, and VDOM configuration, including high-availability pairs.
• Create, review, and troubleshoot firewall policies involving source, destination, services, NAT, and security profiles.
• Work with static routing, BGP, OSPF, and policy-based routing.
• Perform basic troubleshooting for IPsec site-to-site VPN and SSL VPN connections.
• Check high-availability status, validate failover, and review configuration synchronization.
• Investigate sessions and traffic using packet sniffing, debug flow, routing information, and session-table review.
• Review FortiGate and FortiAnalyzer logs for threats and security events.
• Support firmware upgrade planning and configuration backup and restoration.

Palo Alto Networks

• Navigate PAN-OS using its web interface and command-line interface.
• Configure and troubleshoot security policies, NAT policies, and zone-based settings.
• Understand security profiles covering antivirus, anti-spyware, URL filtering, file blocking, and WildFire.
• Work with static routes, BGP, and OSPF on virtual routers.
• Understand IPsec tunnels and basic GlobalProtect VPN operation.
• Check active/passive and active/active high-availability status and failover.
• Use session inspection, security-policy matching, packet capture, routing commands, dataplane debugging, and system or traffic logs for troubleshooting.
• Understand the basics of Panorama centralized management and support content and PAN-OS upgrade planning.

Vendor-Neutral Firewall and Network Fundamentals

• Understand stateful inspection, source NAT, destination NAT, port address translation, and zone-based firewall design.
• Apply an OSI-layer troubleshooting approach using ping, traceroute, packet captures, and logs.
• Understand BGP fundamentals, including peering, autonomous-system path, local preference, and route advertisement.
• Understand IPsec and TLS fundamentals.
• Recognize how asymmetric routing can cause network sessions to fail.
• Follow change-management and rollback practices when modifying network configurations.

Cloud and Network Platform Skills

• Understand Microsoft Azure virtual networks, peering, Route Server, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Network Security Groups, and user-defined route tables.
• Understand firewall network virtual appliances deployed as virtual machines in hub-and-spoke network topologies.
• Review Azure Route Server BGP peer status, learned and advertised routes, and route preferences.
• Understand basic ExpressRoute circuit and peering behavior, including Global Reach.
• Use Azure Portal, Azure CLI, and Network Watcher capabilities such as connection troubleshooting, NSG flow logs, and IP flow verification.
• Apply routing and switching fundamentals, including VLANs, subnetting, ARP, and Layer 2 extension concepts.

Security Operations

• Support security policy hardening and least-privilege firewall rule design.
• Analyze threat logs and help triage incidents involving intrusion prevention, malware, malicious URLs, and blocked traffic.
• Use basic SIEM knowledge involving Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, or FortiAnalyzer.
• Maintain awareness of vulnerabilities and patches affecting firewall operating systems and platform software.
• Assist with incident response through containment activities, evidence collection, and escalation.
• Understand the cybersecurity lifecycle: identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover.

Operational and Process Responsibilities

• Execute approved network changes by following change plans, runbooks, and rollback procedures for adds, moves, and changes.
• Maintain operating procedures, configuration records, and network diagrams.
• Use ticketing and workflow systems such as ServiceNow, Jira, or similar tools to request, track, and close work.
• Support transitions and migrations, including cutovers, parallel runs, and knowledge transfer.
• Coordinate with GITS, application owners, and senior engineers during maintenance windows.
• Provide clear status updates, escalate blockers, and notify stakeholders about relevant work.

Metrics and Reporting

• Collect firewall and security metrics, including policy hit counts, blocked threats, VPN uptime, high-availability status, and device health.
• Prepare weekly or monthly reports for senior security engineers and management.
• Track change success rates, incident trends, and patch compliance.
• Use dashboards in FortiAnalyzer, Palo Alto Panorama or Cortex, Azure Monitor, or similar platforms.

Technology and Tools

• Fortinet FortiGate and FortiOS: Firewall configuration, policy troubleshooting, routing, VPN, high availability, logs, and firmware operations.
• Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS and Panorama: Security and NAT policies, security profiles, routing, VPN, high availability, centralized management, and troubleshooting.
• Microsoft Azure: Virtual networking, Route Server, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Network Security Groups, route tables, Azure CLI, Network Watcher, and Azure Monitor.
• Splunk: Basic SIEM familiarity for security monitoring and incident analysis.
• Microsoft Sentinel: Basic SIEM familiarity for security operations.
• FortiAnalyzer: Log analysis, threat/event review, and security dashboards.
• ServiceNow and Jira: Ticket and workflow management.
• Networking protocols and concepts: BGP, OSPF, IPsec, TLS, VLANs, ARP, NAT, subnetting, and Layer 2 extension.

Who Should Apply

This role is intended for candidates with 0–2 years of relevant experience who have a BA/BS degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Applicants should have foundational firewall troubleshooting knowledge and familiarity with Fortinet, Palo Alto, or another firewall platform.

Candidates with an understanding of network routing, VPN troubleshooting, Azure networking, security event analysis, ticketing workflows, and change-management procedures will find these areas relevant to the responsibilities described. The job description does not specify a particular graduation batch, academic branch, certification, or salary range.

Work Location and Employment Type

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Employment type: Full-time. The listing does not state a remote or hybrid arrangement, so this record uses the SoftoJobs onsite default.

About Unisys

Unisys is a global technology solutions company whose work includes cloud, artificial intelligence, digital workplace, logistics, and enterprise computing. The company describes its focus as helping organizations address complex business and technology challenges.

How to Apply

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