Digantara is a leading Space Surveillance and Intelligence company focused on ensuring orbital safety and sustainability. With expertise in space-based detection, tracking, identification, and monitoring, Digantara provides comprehensive domain awareness across regimes, allowing end users to have actionable intelligence on a single platform. At the core of its infrastructure lies a sophisticated integration of hardware and software capabilities aligned with the key principles of situational awareness: perception (data collection), comprehension (data processing), and prediction (analytics). This holistic approach empowers Digantara to monitor all Resident Space Objects (RSOs) in orbit, fostering comprehensive domain awareness.

Digantara is seeking a skilled and proactive Security Engineer to lead penetration testing and drive security automation across our product ecosystem. This role is vital for ensuring our applications and infrastructure remain resilient against threats and vulnerabilities. You will work closely with engineering, DevOps, and product teams to integrate security throughout the development lifecycle.

Why Us?

• Be part of a collaborative and innovative environment where your ideas and skills make a real difference to the entire space realm.

• Push the boundaries with hands-on experience, greater responsibilities, and rapid career advancement.

• Competitive incentives, galvanising workspace, blazing team, frequent outings—pretty much everything that you have heard about a startup.

Responsibilities:

• Penetration testing

  • Conduct manual and automated penetration tests on web, and cloud-based applications using tools like Nmap, Burp Suite, and Metasploit.

  • Identify, exploit, and document vulnerabilities with clear remediation guidance.

  • Simulate real-world attacks to evaluate product security posture.

• Security Automation

  • Develop and maintain automated security testing pipelines within CI/CD workflows.

  • Create custom scripts and tools to streamline vulnerability scanning, reporting, and remediation tracking

  • Integrate SAST, DAST, and SCA tools into development environments

• Security Engineering

  • Partner with developers to design secure architectures and implement secure coding practices.

  • Conduct threat modeling and risk assessments for new and existing products.

  • Monitor and respond to security incidents, collaborating with incident response teams as needed.

• Compliance & Reporting

  • Ensure products meet internal and external security standards (e.g., OWASP, ISO 27001, SOC 2)

  • Ensure products meet internal and external security, including executive summaries and technical findings.

  • Stay current on emerging threats, vulnerabilities and security technologies.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or related field (or equivalent experience)

• 3+ years of experience in penetration testing and security engineering

• Proficiency with tools like Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Metaspoilt, Nmap, and custom scripting (Python, Bash)

• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and security automation frameworks.

• Strong understanding of application security, cloud security automation frameworks.

• Strong understanding of application security, cloud security, (AWS/GCP), and DevSecOps principles.

Preferred Skills:

• Certifications such as OSCP, CEH, GWAPT, or simialr.

• Experience with container security (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Familiarity with secure SDLC and agile development environments.

General Requirements:

• Ability to work in a mission-focused, operational environment.

• Ability to think critically and make independent decisions.

• Interpersonal skills to enable working in a diverse and dynamic team.

• Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.

• Writing and delivering technical documents and briefings.

• Verbal and written communication skills, as well as organizational skills.

• Travel occasionally as necessary.

Work Location: Hebbal, Bangalore