Principal Technical Specialist

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment This is creating many opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world. At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative, and successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story. **Position Summary** As a Principal Technical Specialist, will be responsible for building deep technical relationships with stakeholders, business owners, and decisions makers, providing technical guidance to the team, developing, and implementing technical strategies, Proof of Concepts in Security, Networks and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Manage multiple project technical teams executing Transition, Transformation and support services in Security, Network and Cloud Platforms, overseeing the development of systems and data protection. Provide technical guidance to broad scope, ambiguity and high degree of Security and Network technical challenges. **Mandatory Skills** Has specialized knowledge in following technologies/tools: - Security Risk and Incident management - Cisco ASA, Palo Alto and Checkpoint VSX Firewalls/VPN’s - Symantec Endpoint Protection 11,12.1 and 14 - Manual risk remediation and forensics - MS Azure, Google Cloud Platform - Manual risk remediation and forensics, knowledge on PCI-DSS security standards - Project, Program and Delivery Management **Roles And Responsibilities** As a Technical Specialist, you will be performing below mentioned duties, which are not limited to: - Demonstrating proficiency in a wide range of IT/OT infrastructure, Network, Security, and platforms technologies for uplifting the client Infrastructure posture - Work with business unit point persons to perform Cybersecurity Inherent Risk Assessments based on the FFIEC Cyber Assessment Tool Inherent Risk Profile. - Collect domain-level assessment results and work with control owners to perform enterprise-wide cybersecurity Control Effectiveness Assessments based on the Cyber Risk Institute Profile - Overall gap assessment in Cloud Security, AI and Azure infrastructure. Symantec manhunt IDS: high speed network intrusion detection system to protect enterprise networks against internal and external intrusions. - Accountable for overall Network Security Operations, implementations, and Post implementation audits. Manage all network and security issues of the organization ensuring timely resolution without breaching SLA. Implementation of Firewall, Load Balancer and IDS/IPS - Perform ad-hoc cybersecurity capability /maturity assessments, frequency, and impact analysis in response to regulatory requirements and industry standards (OCC, FRB, FINRA, MAS, HKMA, PRA, NIST, ISO, COBIT, etc.). Identify and report /escalate significant compliance and control issues and help develop solutions by working closely with program owners. - Prepare and advise senior leaders in managing information risk primarily from the regulatory perspective. Provide input during policy development regarding the applicability/impact of proposed policies and procedures. - Make sure that services are being seamlessly delivered to the clients of an organization. They are end to end accountable for services, such as leading BAU/project teams, rectifying reliability issues, monitoring progress, tracking KPIs, and managing budgets - Execute higher scale and complex technical solutions. Chair discussion with client business and technical teams and drive value additions and early realization of technical solution as appropriate - Specialized in business transformation, with a focus on operational and performance improvement. As a Program Director, one should work very closely with the client, solution major client digital projects and play a key role in meeting client business needs - Design and manage significant business transformation programmes, leading teams of consultants to deliver substantial financial benefits. **Qualifications & Certifications (Optional)**: - Certified in IBM Watson, IOT **Salary Range**:>$100,000 **Date of Posting**: 30-May-25