Cybersecurity Staffing & Resource Augmentation in India & UAE.
Contract, contract-to-hire and managed-pool staffing for SOC analysts (L1–L4), penetration testers (OSCP+), GRC consultants (ISO 27001 / SOC 2 LA), DFIR responders and fractional CISOs. Bench depth lets us deploy in 5–10 working days, not the 90-day hiring cycle.
What is cybersecurity staffing?
Cybersecurity staffing places vetted, certified security professionals — SOC analysts, pentesters, and compliance specialists — into your team on contract or permanent terms. Macksofy draws on its training academy to supply OSCP/CEH/CySA+-certified talent to BFSI, MSSPs, and product security teams across India and the UAE.
The role was approved in March. It is still open.
Security hiring in India and the GCC runs two to four months, and the candidates who pass a technical screen still owe a notice period. Meanwhile the shift is uncovered and the audit date has not moved.
- 5–10 working day deployment vs. 60–120 day in-house hiring cycle
- Roll-on / roll-off model for surge capacity (audit season, M&A diligence, incident response)
- Contract-to-hire option converts to your direct payroll after 6 months with no placement fee
- Macksofy QA layer (peer review + cadence) behind every deployed resource — not the body-shopping model
- 1Skill matrix, clearance and shift requirements taken
- 2Three to five candidates shortlisted from bench, with evaluation scorecards
- 3Your technical and culture interviews, inside the same week
- 4NDA, access provisioning, senior buddy assigned for the first 30 days
- 1Role approved, budget signed off, JD written
- 2Sourcing, screening and a technical panel that competes for calendar time
- 3Offer, negotiation, and a notice period of a month or more
- 4Onboarding and ramp before the first useful output
Bars are scaled to each other on the stated ranges. The comparison is not an argument against hiring — it is an argument for covering the gap while the hire happens, which is what contract-to-hire is designed for.
People we already employ and assess.
Deployment is fast because the vetting already happened. These are Macksofy consultants who deliver our own engagements between placements, not a database of CVs we resell.
Wazuh · ELK · Splunk · Sentinel · CrowdStrike · SentinelOne · Defender XDR
Web · network · mobile · cloud, Burp Pro and Metasploit as baseline
OSCP+ · OSWE · OSEP · CRTP · CRTO, red team and AD depth
ISO 27001 · SOC 2 · CERT-In · RBI · SEBI · PCI-DSS · HIPAA · GDPR · DPDP
Prior in-house CISO or Deputy CISO roles at regulated firms
- ▸Indian PoS clearance for government engagements
- ▸UAE police clearance for GCC deployments
- ▸Multi-shift rosters with leave cover held by Macksofy
Borrow, or borrow then keep.
Surge capacity for audit season, M&A diligence or an incident. Scale up for the quarter that needs it and back down after, without a headcount conversation.
Cover the seat now, convert to your direct payroll at six months with no placement fee. Earlier conversion is possible with a buy-out.
A full 24×7 SOC roster — analysts across shifts, with rostering and leave cover held by Macksofy rather than landing on your team lead.
A quality net behind every seat.
Staff augmentation has a deserved reputation, and it comes from vendors who hand over a CV and invoice monthly. Four things make this different, and all four are contractual.
Every deployed person has a Macksofy delivery manager attached and a weekly cadence. That is the line between managed deployment and body-shopping.
A senior consultant shadows the first month so ramp-up does not land entirely on your team's time.
Rule writes, reports and RCAs get a second set of eyes from our side before they reach yours.
If someone exits, replacing them is our SLA and our problem — plus a knowledge-transfer pack on any roll-off.
Five stages, most of them in week one.
- ▸Skill matrix + clearance requirements intake
- ▸Tooling / environment + shift / location requirements
- ▸Engagement model: contract · contract-to-hire · managed pool
- ▸3–5 candidates shortlisted from bench within 5 working days
- ▸CV pack + Macksofy internal evaluation scorecards
- ▸Client technical + culture interviews scheduled inside the same week
- ▸NDA + access provisioning checklist
- ▸Macksofy senior buddy assigned for first 30 days
- ▸Tooling familiarisation + your runbook handover
- ▸Weekly cadence with Macksofy delivery manager
- ▸Monthly performance review with client lead
- ▸Peer review of deliverables (rule writes, reports, RCAs)
- ▸Backfill within 5 working days if a resource exits
- ▸Convert-to-hire pathway at 6 months (no placement fee)
- ▸Knowledge-transfer pack on roll-off
One surge. One bridge to a hire.
Scope · 30-day surge: 8 OSCP pentesters for BFSI client engagement
What happened · All 8 deployed inside 7 working days; engagement closed 2 weeks ahead of schedule
Strategic — won follow-on framework deal at the same Big-4
Scope · 12-month contract-to-hire: 4 L2 SOC analysts
What happened · 3 of 4 converted to direct hire at month 6; 4th rolled into Macksofy MSS
Material — bridged 90-day hiring gap without disrupting 24×7 cover
They arrive knowing your stack.
Matching is on tooling as well as seniority, so the first week is spent on your runbooks and your environment rather than on learning the SIEM.
Vetted bench, deployed in 5–10 working days.
Staffing rates scale with seniority, certification (OSCP / OSCP+ / ISO 27001 LA / CISSP), shift pattern and clearance. Tell us roles, count and start date — we’ll send a candidate slate + rate card within 5 working days.
What you get with every placement
- Resource deployed in 5–10 working days from contract sign
- Macksofy delivery manager + senior buddy attached for first 30 days
- Weekly cadence + monthly performance review with client lead
- Backfill SLA: 5 working days if resource exits
- Convert-to-hire pathway at 6 months — no placement fee
- Knowledge-transfer pack on roll-off
Sectors we operate in
Empanelled by CERT-In. Accredited by EC-Council.
“We've worked with three Big 4 firms before Macksofy. None found what their team did in our payments stack. The most actionable report we've received in a decade.”
“The CHFI training Macksofy delivered for our cyber cell raised investigation quality measurably. Practical, India-context-aware, and respectful of our operational realities.”
“Came in with zero security background. 5 weeks later I was running Burp Suite and Metasploit confidently. Cleared CEH on the first attempt.”
What hiring managers ask first.
Where Macksofy delivers Staffing.
On-site engagements across India's BFSI, fintech, government and SaaS metros plus the UAE. Senior consultants fly from Mumbai BKC for kickoff, key reviews and exit briefings; remote weeks run through the rest of the engagement.
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- CERT-In Empanelled
- EC-Council ATC · CompTIA Authorized
- Thousands of professionals trained
- India + UAE engagements