Associate Director - Cyber Security (10-15 yrs)

Requirements :

- 10+ years of experience in DevOps/ SRE / Cybersecurity, with at least 3+ years in a security operations leadership role focused on production environments or cloud-native platforms.

- Prior experience working in high-scale environments such as e-commerce, digital platforms, or SaaS.

- Deep understanding of cloud-native security (AWS, GCP, Azure), container security (Kubernetes, Docker), and modern infrastructure.

- Hands-on experience with SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, and cloud telemetry tools.

- Strong familiarity with production observability, threat detection engineering, and forensic tooling.

- Ability to lead high-pressure incident response efforts with confidence and clarity.

- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, especially with engineering and platform teams.

- High ownership, execution bias, and a collaborative mindset.

- Relevant certifications such as GCIA, GCIH, AWS Security, or Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS).

Responsibilities :

- Perform application security testing and penetration testing of web application, APIs and mobile (ios/android) applications to identify potential vulnerabilities and risks.

- Conduct threat modelling, secure architecture review and application security assessments.

- Run DAST and SAST tools against the application and code and engage with the development team to prioritize and remediate findings in a timely manner.

- Drive the adoption of static and dynamic code analysis capabilities to catch flaws as part of the design and continuous integration.

- Provide guidance and direction for the evolution of security capability within our development processes and platform environment.

- Conducting security training and awareness sessions for developers and other stakeholders.

- Contribute to the adoption of bug bounty program in the organization.