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Cyber Security Advisor at Nokia in India
Job Description
Cyber Security Advisor
Location: India
Responsible for assessing security implications of emerging technologies, telecom evolutions, infrastructure deployments, and novel attack techniques. Produces actionable security advisories that guide engineering, operations, and leadership toward secure adoption.
- Emerging Technology Security Assessment – Assess security risks across 5G, Cloud, Edge, Open RAN, AI-driven networks, FWA, VoNR/VoLTE, VoIP, WebRTC, and future telecom technologies.
- Architecture & Systemic Risk Assessment – Identify security gaps, architectural risks, attack surfaces, dependencies, and potential blast radius arising from new technology and network transformations.
- Security Advisory Development – Develop structured, actionable advisories covering telecom technologies, data centers, IP transport, virtualization, network exposure, and emerging infrastructure.
- Threat & Attack Intelligence Translation – Analyze emerging attack techniques and threat intelligence, translating them into practical defensive controls, recommendations, and risk mitigations.
- Data Center & Infrastructure Security – Provide security guidance for new DC builds, expansions, and modernization, including segmentation, control planes, resilience, physical-logical convergence, and infrastructure protection.
- Risk-Based Recommendations – Define threat scenarios, likelihood, business impact/blast radius, mitigation strategies, and residual risks to support informed technology adoption decisions.
- Cross-Functional Security Influence – Partner with Architecture, Engineering, SOC, and Leadership teams to communicate risks effectively and drive adoption of security recommendations across the organization.
Must Have Skill:
- Telecom Security & Architecture – Strong understanding of telecom architectures, 3GPP, GSMA, ETSI, Broadband Forum, and large-scale network infrastructure security.
- Threat Modeling & Risk Assessment – Proven ability to perform threat modeling, identify attack surfaces, assess likelihood/blast radius, and develop risk-based mitigation strategies.
- Threat Intelligence & Attack Analysis – Ability to interpret emerging attack techniques and threat intelligence, including MITRE FiGHT and GSMA MoTIF, and translate findings into actionable security guidance.
Security Standards & Regulatory Knowledge – Strong familiarity with GSMA security frameworks, 3GPP security specifications, ENISA, NIST, ETSI, and country-specific telecom regulatory requirements.
Good-to-Have Skills
- Security Certifications – CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or CCSP.
Telecom / Infrastructure Experience – 4+ years of experience in telecom, data centers, cloud, or large-scale infrastructure security.
Security Advisory & Analytical Writing – Ability to produce clear, structured security advisories and communicate complex technical risks to engineering and leadership teams.
Strategic & Collaborative Mindset – Comfortable operating in ambiguity and working cross-functionally with Architecture, Engineering, SOC, and leadership teams.
Nokia is a global leader in connectivity for the AI era. With expertise across fixed, mobile and transport networks, powered by the innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we’re advancing connectivity to secure a brighter world.
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