Security Architect

We’re hiring: Security Architect

Location: India

Contract: 12 months

Experience: 10+ years

We are looking for a hands-on Security Architect to embed security throughout the product-development lifecycle. This role will work closely with engineering, product, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to ensure customer-facing products, systems, APIs, and services are designed to withstand security threats.

Key responsibilities:

• Define and maintain security architecture principles, standards, and reusable secure-design patterns
• Review application, API, cloud, infrastructure, integration, and distributed-system architectures
• Conduct threat modelling, security risk assessments, and design reviews
• Identify attack vectors, vulnerabilities, and control gaps before they become incidents
• Translate security risks into practical and scalable technical controls
• Embed secure coding, testing, deployment, and operational practices into the development lifecycle
• Establish appropriate security requirements and release gates
• Assess third-party services, emerging technologies, and new integrations
• Support security reviews, audits, certifications, and compliance activities
• Provide security guidance, training, and mentorship to technical teams

Required skills:

• 10+ years of cybersecurity, security architecture, or application-security experience
• Hands-on experience securing customer-facing products
• Strong knowledge of threat modelling, risk assessment, IAM, cloud security, and secure software development
• Experience designing and reviewing security for applications, APIs, cloud platforms, and infrastructure
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

CISSP, CCSP, SABSA, or equivalent practical experience is preferred.