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Security Consultant - Endpoint Security

IBM

IBM

IT
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Posted on Jan 31, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience

Your role and responsibilities
  • The Endpoint Security Engineer is responsible for implementing, managing, and monitoring endpoint security controls across enterprise environments. The role focuses on Antivirus, DLP, Application Control, EDR/XDR platforms, malware analysis, and continuous event and infrastructure monitoring for Windows and Linux operating systems.
  • Manage and operate Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) including Antivirus, Anti-malware, and Host-based controls
  • Administer and tune EDR/XDR solutions for threat detection, investigation, and response
  • Implement and manage Application Control / Whitelisting policies
  • Monitor and enforce Endpoint DLP policies to prevent data leakage
  • Perform malware analysis (static and behavioral) and support incident investigations
  • Monitor endpoint security events, alerts, and telemetry via SIEM/SOAR integrations
  • Conduct endpoint threat hunting and root-cause analysis
  • Support incident response activities including containment, isolation, and remediation
  • Monitor endpoint infrastructure health (agents, sensors, updates, connectivity)
  • Ensure endpoint security compliance across Windows and Linux environments
  • Coordinate with SOC, Infra, and IT teams for incident resolution and platform optimization
  • Maintain documentation, SOPs, and operational runbooks
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Endpoint Security Technologies

Antivirus / Anti-malware solutions

EDR / XDR platforms

Application Control

Endpoint DLP

Endpoint agent health, versioning, and policy compliance

Patch and update monitoring

Ready to work in 24*7 shifts

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience with Cortex XDR, Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike, or similar

Knowledge of PowerShell, Bash, Python for automation

Understanding of Zero Trust and endpoint hardening best practices

Exposure to ITIL-based operations and SLA-driven environments

Experience in enterprise SOC operations

Years of Experience:
3 - 8

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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