Associate Director - DevSecOps & Cloud Engineering

Overview

Individual contributor technology leader responsible for advancing DevSecOps practices, cloud engineering capabilities, platform engineering, and cybersecurity across the enterprise, working with stakeholders, cybersecurity teams and engineering teams.

What you'll do

• Drive technical innovation and adoption of emerging cloud technologies and standard methodologies.
• Provide architectural guidance for cloud migrations and modernization initiatives.
• Conduct architecture reviews and ensure adherence to established standards.
• Manage technical risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Establish and maintain user documentation and runbooks.
• Design and manage multi-account architectures using Control Tower and Organizations; establish standards and reference designs; drive FinOps and cost optimization.
• Build Terraform frameworks with modules, state management, and policy enforcement; define Ansible standards; implement Policy as Code (AWS Config).
• Implement DevSecOps practices and design security-by-default architectures; implement vulnerability scanning (Trivy, Qualys, AWS Inspector, SonarQube); implement secrets management.
• Design monitoring platforms (CloudWatch / Prometheus / Grafana / ELK); leverage AI tools and capabilities for anomaly detection and auto-remediation; implement AIOps and Observability.
• Design CI/CD pipelines for enterprise applications; architect blue-green and canary deployments; establish artifact management standards.
• Provide technical leadership, architectural guidance and reviews; mentor engineers; evaluate tools and technologies; collaborate across teams; establish standard processes and documentation.

What you'll need

• 8+ years in DevSecOps/Cloud Engineering with deep hands-on technical expertise.
• 5+ years architecting enterprise-scale AWS solutions in production environments.
• AWS expertise: VPC/Transit Gateway, IAM/SSO, EC2/EKS/ECS/Fargate, Lambda, RDS/Aurora/DynamoDB, S3/CloudFront, CloudWatch/X-Ray, Inspector, Security Hub, Config, Control Tower, Organizations.
• IaC expertise: Expert-level Terraform (modules, workspaces, state backends, policy integration) and Ansible (roles, collections, automation at scale).
• CI/CD experience: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI with complex pipeline architectures.
• Security automation: Hands-on with vulnerability scanning, SAST/DAST, secrets management, policy as code, and compliance automation.
• Container orchestration: Production Kubernetes/EKS experience including cluster management, service mesh, and security.
• Observability: Implementation of monitoring/logging/alerting platforms with AIOps capabilities (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK).
• Programming: Python, Bash, or Go for automation and tooling.
• Communication: Excellent presentation and documentation skills for technical and executive audiences.
• Collaboration: Proven ability to work across teams and influence technical direction.

Nice to have

• Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, AWS Security Specialty, Kubernetes (CKA/CKS), Terraform Associate/Professional.
• Industry experience: Regulated environments (pharmaceutical, healthcare, financial services) with GxP, HIPAA, or SOC 2 compliance experience.
• Methodologies: Deep knowledge of Platform engineering, SRE principles, and FinOps frameworks.
• Multi-cloud: Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architectures.
• Emerging technologies: Serverless architectures, AI/ML platforms.

Details

• Location: Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore, India.
• Work mode: In-person working, on average a minimum of three days per week from the office.
• Employment is an individual contributor role.