Security Engineer – Vulnerability Management

Linxon India Private Limited

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IN.TN.Chennai.IndiQube Alpine, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Block No. 4, SIDCO Industrial Estate.Guindy Until 9/8/2026 2+ years exp First posted July 10, 2026 Last posted July 10, 2026
Job description

Job Description

Join Us!

We combine AtkinsRéalis project management expertise and Hitachi Energy’s deep technological knowledge to create a company dedicated to substations – we are Linxon!

What will you do?
 

We are seeking skilled and hands-on experience in “Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing”. Experience in Identifying, assessing, and validating security vulnerabilities across “Web application, API, mobile application, networks, cloud environments and operating systems. The candidate will perform security assessments, penetration testing and provide remediation guidance.

This role will play a critical part of performing VA / PT assessments across the cloud infrastructure and business critical applications.

Key Responsibilities

  • Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT), security assessment on “Web & Mobile Applications, API, Network, Cloud Infrastructure”
  • Perform manual and automated security testing
  • Validate vulnerabilities and analyze vulnerabilities and business impact
  • Execute security assessments aligned with various industry standards such as “OWASP, MITTRE ATT&CK, API Security Standards”
  • Prepare detailed technical and executive reports
  • Work closely with cross functional teams to support remediation activities
  • Conduct security reviews and configuration assessments
  • Support Red Team, Purple Team operation activities when required
  • Hands-on experience in security assessment tools “Burp Suite (Pro), Acunetix, Nmap, Nessus, Qualysguard, Kali Linux”
  • Good understanding of “Attack vectors, Authentication & Authorization techniques, Encryption standards, Cloud security components”
  • Familiar with scripting languages “Python, Shell Scripting”
     

Qualification:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or related field.
  • 2-4 years of hands-on experience in manual and automated Vulnerability Assessment or Penetration Testing engagements
  • Understanding of various security & compliance standards (ISO 27001, OWASP, NIST, GDPR)
  • Experience in performing VAPT in Cloud infrastructure, Applications, API environments
  • Strong knowledge of security assessment tools
  • Knowledge of various offensive security models (Red Team, BAS)
  • Any security or tool certification is plus

What we offer:

In return, we offer a wide range of rewards and benefits,

  • 20 days Privilege Leave, 13 days Emergency leave and 14 Public holidays per year.

  • Medical Insurance, Life Insurance and Career Progression

  • When it comes to diversity and inclusion, we see things differently at Linxon - we encourage applications from people of all races, ages, genders, religions, sexual orientations and more - so whoever you are, we hope you’ll see things our way, too.

About Linxon

Shaping energy solutions to empower sustainable connectivity.

Linxon’s vision is to deliver the best market offering for turnkey substation projects through world-class power technologies and delivering the highest level of competence in managing infrastructure projects.

As a leading engineering company, we help our customers with turnkey substation solutions in the field of power transmission, renewable energy, and transportation.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of a new company as it evolves and help shape it for the future. If you like new challenges, have an entrepreneurial spirit, and are interested in working with other motivated professionals with expertise in the Substations EPC business, then this is the new opportunity for you.

To know more about the Linxon please click on the link below.

Join the future with Linxon GETS Chennai, India

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At Linxon, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.  

About this role

Summary

Perform vulnerability assessments and penetration testing on web, mobile, API, network, and cloud systems.

Job title

Security Engineer – Vulnerability Management

Experience level

2-4 years

Minimum experience

2+ years exp

Industry

energy

Location requirements

Chennai, India; remote not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

vulnerability assessmentpenetration testingsecurity assessment toolsBurp SuiteNmapNessusQualysguardKali LinuxPythonShell Scripting

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

vulnerability assessmentpenetration testingcloud securityweb applicationsapi
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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