Cloud Security Engineer

Job Title: Cloud Security Engineer

• Location: Bangalore
• Department: Technology
• Reports to: Head of Cloud Infra

TookiTaki, the global leader building the Trust Layer for Financial Services, is strengthening its cloud security foundation as we scale our AI-driven AML and fraud-detection platforms across global banks and fintechs. We are looking for a Cloud Security Engineer who blends deep cloud expertise with uncompromising security standards — someone who can design, harden, and defend the cloud environments that power our mission. If secure, resilient, and scalable infrastructure is your playground, welcome home.

Roles & Responsibilities

• 1. Cloud Security Architecture: Design and implement secure cloud architectures across AWS
• Ensure systems meet enterprise-grade security, availability, and performance requirements.
• Drive secure-by-default principles across deployments, services, and automation pipelines.

2. Security Hardening & Compliance:

• Own and maintain PCI-DSS–aligned cloud security controls.
• Lead infrastructure hardening across compute, data, storage, network, and IAM.
• Implement end-to-end compliance guardrails, auditing, and continuous monitoring.
• Drive patching, vulnerability management, and threat exposure reduction.

3. Threat Detection & Incident Response:

• Develop runtime threat detection and alerting frameworks (SIEM/SOAR, IDS, CSPM).
• Conduct compromise assessments and respond to potential breaches with speed and clarity.
• Act as the primary escalation point for security incidents and lead root cause analysis.
• Continuously enhance detection logic using emerging threats from the AFC ecosystem.

4. Security Automation & DevSecOps:

• Integrate security tooling into CI/CD workflows (SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning).
• Automate policies using IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation) and policy-as-code frameworks.
• Build automated remediation playbooks to reduce manual intervention. Identity, Access & Secrets Management
• Implement and govern IAM standards across cloud environments.
• Build least-privilege, zero-trust access frameworks.
• Maintain secure secrets management via Vault, KMS, or similar tooling.

5. Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

• Lead DR planning and execution with clear RTO/RPO targets.

OKRs

• Achieve 99.9% secure and compliant uptime for all cloud infrastructure.
• Reduce high-risk vulnerabilities by 90% within the first 6 months.
• Implement full Cloud Security Monitoring & Alerting within 90 days.
• Shift-left security across CI/CD pipelines with 100% automated checks.
• Reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) for security incidents by 50%.

Requirements Education

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent.
• Preferred: Master’s degree in Cybersecurity or Cloud Security.

Experience

• 4–6 years in cloud engineering or cloud security roles.
• Proven hands-on experience securing cloud platforms AWS at scale.
• Experience in regulated or compliance-heavy environments (fintech, banking, regtech) preferred.

Technical Expertise

• Strong understanding of cloud security frameworks (CIS, NIST, PCI-DSS).
• Expertise with IaC tools: Terraform, CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes security (EKS)
• Ability to detect, triage and prevent network-level vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in the cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on with container security (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS/GKE).
• Experience with cloud-native security tools (GuardDuty, Security Hub, GCP SCC, Prisma, Wiz, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of monitoring & logging stacks (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana). - Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java for security automation.

Soft Skills

• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical thinking.
• Clear communication — security without theatrics or jargon.
• Ability to operate in a fast, dynamic, and global environment.
• High ownership and accountability.

Key Competency

• Infrastructure Expertise: Deep understanding of cloud platforms and scalable architecture design.
• Automation and Optimization: Ability to streamline processes and improve cost-efficiency.
• Collaboration: Work effectively with engineering and operational teams.
• Ownership: Take full responsibility for the cloud infrastructure and its performance.
• Adaptability: Thrive in dynamic and rapidly changing environments.

Success Metrics

• Maintain 99.9% uptime across all cloud infrastructure.
• Achieve a 20% reduction in cloud costs within six months.
• Complete automation of CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment lead times by 50%.
• Resolve critical production incidents within 30 minutes on average.
• Implement a robust monitoring system with minimal false alerts.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary: Aligned with industry standards and experience.
• Professional Development: Access to training in big data, cloud computing, and data integration tools.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Health insurance and flexible working options.
• Growth Opportunities: Career progression within Tookitaki’s rapidly expanding Services Delivery team.