Lead - Security Engineer (Cloud & Applications)
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Role Purpose
Own the design and engineering of preventative security controls across cloud, infrastructure, identity, and application access.
Act as the technical authority for secure-by-design architectures with strong focus on automation, guardrails, and identity-driven security.
• DevSecOps, API, Containers, Serverless
- Security Design for Infrastructure & IAM
• Security Architecture & Engineering
- Define security architecture standards, principles, and reference patterns.
- Lead solution security design reviews and threat modelling.
- Produce reusable blueprints and engineering guardrails.
- Provide technical assurance and risk recommendations.
• Identity, IAM & Privileged Access Security
- Architect workforce and workload identity models.
- Design Conditional Access, MFA, RBAC, privileged governance.
- Implement PAM integrations and privileged workflows.
- Define secure authentication and app onboarding standards.
- Establish identity lifecycle (JML) automation.
• Cloud Security Engineering & Governance
- Design secure landing zones and foundational controls.
- Implement policy baselines and guardrails.
- Drive posture management and drift remediation.
- Engineer encryption, key management, and secrets protection.
• Application, API & Integration Security
- Define secure authentication and authorization patterns.
- Establish API security controls and gateway standards.
- Implement secrets management for apps and pipelines.
- Provide secure integration templates for SaaS and partners.
• DevSecOps & Security Automation
- Embed security into CI/CD pipelines.
- Define automated testing and release guardrails.
- Implement policy-as-code and compliance automation.
- Build reusable pipeline security modules.
• Containers, Kubernetes & Serverless Security
- Define container image and runtime standards.
- Establish Kubernetes security baselines.
- Implement serverless security patterns and monitoring.
• Partner Oversight & Delivery Governance
- Provide engineering oversight to third parties.
- Define technical requirements and validate delivery.
Requirements
- 8–12+ years in security engineering / architecture.
- Strong IAM and identity security expertise.
- Cloud security architecture experience.
- Automation and DevSecOps integration delivery.
- Secure authentication and federation implementation.
Desirable
- Azure Security Engineer / CCSP / CCSK.
- SailPoint / Saviynt / CyberArk / BeyondTrust.
- CSPM / CNAPP platforms.
- TOGAF or architecture training.
Core Skills
- Security architecture and threat modelling
- Identity security & privileged access
- Cloud security governance
- API & integration security
- DevSecOps automation
- Containers & serverless security
Success Measures
- Secure landing zone adoption
- Identity risk reduction
- Application onboarding to secure auth
- DevSecOps control coverage
- Reduction in misconfiguration risk
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