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.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 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.