Ansible Consultant

Req ID: 320223 

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a Ansible Consultant to join our team in Noida, Uttar Pradesh (IN-UP), India (IN).

Description

Role Purpose (High level summary of the role)

• Experience & Good understanding in Ansible Automation Tool.
• Perform rule request intake and approval process, ensuring business requirements meet the technical expectations for requests, ensuring strict adherence to documented guidelines.
• Work on creation of new security policies, review and ensure the scanning can be enabled via Ansible on Hadoop Application & Services.
• Effective communication with business on any variances from technical specifications or follow up questions/clarification on rule requirements.
• Analyze and assess production violations against benchmark expectations and identify candidates for maturing existing rules.
• Ensure approvals the Ansible reports are generated on time within SLA defined.
• Acquire a thorough understanding of the process procedures, keep abreast with changes made and efficiently communicate them to the team.
• Review current practices, initiate process improvements to better response times and improve performance.
• Involved in configuration Baseline rule creation via Ansible and setting up these rules to run periodically and publishing the reports.
• DevOps tooling knowledge.
• Identify potential false positives / Non-Events or any anomalies in policies and rules.
• Generate reports and metrics for management.
• Event Analysis results for both short term responses and long-term trending on potential fine tuning of policies and rules.
• Implement policies and procedures in all concerned business areas and ensure that audit requirements are met in day-to-day operations.
• To adhere to the security and compliance standards and deliver good customer service.
• Ensure positive relationships are built and maintained with all parties ensuring recommendations are made and cascaded across the team.
• Ensure that knowledge and experience are shared with colleagues, providing assistance on referred/technical issues.
• Review the solution designs from Security perspective.
• Good knowledge on different layers of Security (Perimeter Security, Authentication, Authorization, Encryption, Audit & Governance)
• Good to have Hadoop components knowledge especially Knox, Ranger & KMS.
• Good to have knowledge on Cloud Architecture.

Qualifications

Education / Relevant Experience / Other Qualifications (e.g. Knowledge, Skills, Professional Qualifications required)

(For the role – not the role holder. Minimum requirements of the role)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• 7-10 years of relevant experience in IT Security
• Quick learner with an ability to share and transfer knowledge.
• Ability to understand, work with and interpret numeric data.
• Ability to build and maintain cordial relationship with users, peers and people at all levels using diplomacy, judgment, and interpersonal skills.
• Minimum of two year’s Information Technology/ IT Security experience / Data Loss Prevention experience or equivalent.
• Good understanding of Data Security / Data Privacy policies and standards.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, related technical field, or equivalent experience
• Must be able to identify problems, evaluate security issues, assess risk, and implement solutions to defend against security threats.
• Must be able to review the current process followed for access provisioning, server/cluster build, support to evaluate any risks and suggest changes to eliminate the potential risks from the process being followed.
• Must have very good understanding on Ansible to run jobs independently.
• Carry out internal Audits on regular basis to evaluate the Big Data, Ingestion estate compliance to Controls and suggest remediations.
• Good to have Certifications related to Security role (Example – CEH, CCNA Security, CISSP etc.)

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long term success. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure and connectivity. We are one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. Visit us at us.nttdata.com

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