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Job Title: Cyber Security Lead Consultant

City: Mississauga

State/Province: Ontario

Posting Start Date: 10/7/26

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients' most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world.

For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.

Role Summary Seeking an experienced Cyber Security Lead Consultant to provide L3/L4 support for network security operations, intrusion detection/prevention, firewall management, threat monitoring, incident response, and detection engineering. The role will partner with SOC, infrastructure, network, cloud, and application security teams to strengthen enterprise security posture and ensure effective threat detection and response.

Key Responsibilities

- Manage and optimize IDS/IPS platforms and network security controls.
- Investigate intrusion alerts, anomalous traffic, suspicious activity, and indicators of compromise (IOCs).
- Tune IDS/IPS signatures, policies, thresholds, and detection rules.
- Analyze packet captures, network traffic, firewall logs, and security events.
- Administer and troubleshoot Palo Alto, Check Point, Cisco FirePOWER firewalls, VPNs, and threat prevention technologies.
- Review firewall policies, access controls, VPN configurations, and security rules.
- Perform threat hunting and advanced security monitoring across firewall, IDS/IPS, VPN, endpoint, cloud, and SIEM platforms.
- Correlate security events to determine scope, impact, and root cause.
- Act as L3/L4 escalation point for critical security incidents.
- Lead investigation, containment, remediation, and root cause analysis activities.
- Develop and enhance SIEM correlation rules and IDS/IPS detection use cases.
- Identify monitoring gaps and recommend security improvements.
- Prepare incident reports, executive summaries, and corrective action recommendations.
- Mentor L1/L2 analysts and contribute to SOPs, runbooks,



and operational documentation.
- Support governance reviews, audits, reporting, and continuous service improvement initiatives.

Required SkillsNetwork Security

- IDS/IPS administration and monitoring
- Enterprise firewall management
- Firewall policy and rule-base administration
- VPN, network segmentation, and secure remote access
- Packet analysis and network traffic investigation
- TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS

Security Platforms

- Palo Alto Networks
- Check Point Firewall &

• VPN

- Cisco FirePOWER
- Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar, or ArcSight

Security Operations

- Security event analysis and incident response
- Threat hunting and IOC analysis
- Root cause investigation
- Detection engineering fundamentals
- Security documentation and escalation management

Technical Skills

- Wireshark, tcpdump, or similar tools
- KQL, SPL, or equivalent query languages
- Security logging and monitoring architecture
- PowerShell or Python (preferred)

Preferred Knowledge

- MITRE ATT&CK; Framework
- Cyber Kill Chain
- NIST Incident Response
- ISO 27001
- Cloud Security Monitoring
- Threat Intelligence &

• SOAR

- Vulnerability Management
- ITIL Incident, Problem &

• Change Management

Experience &

• Qualifications

- 8-12 years of cybersecurity experience.
- Solid hands-on experience in firewall security, IDS/IPS, SOC, and network security monitoring.
- Experience handling L3/L4 escalations and high-severity incidents.
- Experience with enterprise firewall, IDS/IPS, and SIEM technologies.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and mentoring junior analysts.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Engineering, or related field.

Preferred Certifications

- PCNSE, CCSE, Cisco Security/FirePOWER, Microsoft SC-200, Splunk Enterprise Security, GCIA, GCIH, CISSP, CompTIA CySA or Security .

Areas of Responsibility

- Requirement Gathering:



Define requirement specifications based on workshops and discussions with senior client stakeholders and identify optimization opportunities to be considered as part of the design process.
- Feasibility Analysis: Undertake feasibility analysis to identify potential constraints and change requirements by engaging with client business stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
- Solution Design: Develop solution design across modules and systems, ensuring scalability, feasibility, and alignment with the existing enterprise architecture.
- Configuration and Customisation: Conduct design reviews to ensure configurations align with defined development frameworks. Recommend best practices and implement solutions to enhance business processes' quality.
- Technology Harmonisation: Review the integration architecture across systems, ensuring its alignment with the defined integration framework. Implement the data migration strategy to ensure accurate flow of data across multiple applications.
- Troubleshooting and Optimisation: Optimize solution performance by ensuring alignment with established cost, scalability, and efficiency targets.
- Documentation: Oversee creation and review of functional and technical documentation, ensuring alignment with architectural standards across modules and project teams.

Mandatory Skills

- Intrusion Detection System - IDS.

Experience

- > 10 YEARS.

Compensation The expected compensation for this role ranges from CAD 110,000 to CAD 160,000.

Reinvent your world. We are building a modern Wipro. We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA - as the world around us changes, so do we. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention.

Wipro is committed to creating an accessible, supportive, and inclusive workplace. Reasonable accommodation will be provided to all applicants including persons with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process. Accommodations must be communicated in advance of the application, where possible, and will be reviewed on an individual basis. Wipro provides equal opportunities to all and values diversity.

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