Alkapuri in Vadodara has a Senior Network Security Engineer opening, full time, on site, with a cybersecurity team protecting infrastructure for enterprise clients across multiple industries. Eight years of experience is the expectation, and the role calls for genuine depth across firewalls, VPN infrastructure, and the kind of troubleshooting that happens when a security control is blocking legitimate traffic and nobody can quite figure out why yet.
The work covers assessing systems for vulnerabilities, implementing protective controls, supporting incident response when issues are identified, and recommending improvements to reduce future risk. A senior engineer here balances security rigor against business usability constantly; a perfectly locked-down network that blocks half of what the business actually needs to do isn't a success, and learning where that line sits for a given client takes real judgment.
Required skills are network security tools, firewall configuration and management, VPN infrastructure, and troubleshooting skills sharp enough to distinguish a genuine security block from a misconfiguration. A bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information technology, or a related field is expected, along with a security certification such as CEH or CompTIA Security+ and strong familiarity with security monitoring, vulnerability assessment, and incident response.
Alkapuri sits close to the center of Vadodara, and the client base this security team protects spans manufacturing and financial services organizations, each with different regulatory pressures shaping what "secure enough" actually means for their specific environment.
Naukri Mitra has listed cybersecurity roles from this employer previously, and senior engineers who've joined recently describe the cross-client exposure as genuinely valuable for staying current, since a security pattern learned defending one client's environment often applies, with adaptation, to a completely different client's infrastructure a few months later.
Interviews include a technical round on network security fundamentals and a scenario discussion about diagnosing a security control that's blocking legitimate business traffic. Candidates who approach that scenario methodically, ruling out possibilities one at a time, tend to interview well.
Onboarding for this role runs roughly two to three weeks, split between shadowing a current team member and working through a small, low-risk real task under review before moving to independent ownership. The team has found that a slower, more deliberate ramp-up produces fewer costly mistakes down the line than throwing someone straight into full ownership from day one.
The security team has expanded its firewall footprint across two additional client accounts in the past year, and engineers who document their configuration reasoning clearly tend to get trusted with higher-stakes client environments sooner than those who make correct changes without explaining why.
A firewall rule that seems overly permissive sometimes exists for a legitimate, if undocumented, business reason, and engineers here are expected to investigate the history behind a rule before removing it, since more than one well-intentioned cleanup has accidentally broken a legitimate integration that nobody remembered to document.
Client environments here range from a handful of firewalls at a smaller account to sprawling, segmented networks at larger enterprise clients, and senior engineers are expected to adapt their approach to each client's specific regulatory context rather than applying one uniform security standard across every account.
The security team runs quarterly tabletop exercises simulating a network breach scenario, walking through detection and response as a group rather than only in theory, a practice the team credits with meaningfully shortening real response times when an actual incident occurred last year.
This role is based at Alkapuri, Vadodara, pin code 390007, five days a week on site. Pay runs up to ₹1,75,500 a month. The team hopes to fill this seat within six to seven weeks.