Head - DevOps & Cloud Security

Required Skills and Experience :

- 13+ years of experience across infrastructure, cloud, enterprise IT Service Management, DevOps, SRE, or security operations

- Strong experience owning or leading a broad infrastructure and security environment in a scaling, distributed, or operationally complex organization

- Strong hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, identity and access management, endpoint management, networking, and enterprise SaaS administration

- Meaningful hands-on exposure across AWS, Azure, and GCP

- Strong automation capability using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar, with proven experience in eliminating repetitive operational work

- Strong experience with Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent Infrastructure as Code and configuration automation tooling

- Strong understanding of IAM, Zero Trust Network Architecture (ZTNA) principles, endpoint security, vulnerability management, secrets handling, logging, monitoring, and incident response

- Experience building dashboards and metrics-driven operating cadences for cost, reliability, service health, and security posture

- Experience supporting customer-facing environments where secure tooling, access, workflow, or data pipeline integration is required

- Experience leading risk, remediation, and prioritization discussions with senior stakeholders

- Strong capability in vendor, contractor, and partner management across infrastructure and security disciplines

- Strong judgment in balancing security, speed, usability, reliability, and cost

- Ability to go deep technically when needed while setting direction, driving execution, and holding teams to a high bar

- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage effectively with senior leadership, engineering teams, vendors, and customer security stakeholders

Good to Have :

- Experience in organizations handling sensitive customer data or operating in regulated or high-trust environments

- Familiarity with TISAX, GDPR, DORA, NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar frameworks

- Exposure to supply-chain security, SaaS security posture management, secure vendor and integration reviews, and third-party risk management

- Experience supporting distributed operations across India and global teams

- Familiarity with customer-facing security requirements in AI, data, platform, or managed services businesses

- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, AWS Security Specialty, or similar