Associate Director - Cyber Security

Requirements :

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps / SRE / Cybersecurity, with at least 3+ years in a security operations leadership role focused on production environments or cloud-native platforms.
• Prior experience working in high-scale environments such as e-commerce, digital platforms, or SaaS.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native security (AWS, GCP, Azure), container security (Kubernetes, Docker), and modern infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM, SOAR, EDR / XDR, and cloud telemetry tools.
• Strong familiarity with production observability, threat detection engineering, and forensic tooling.
• Ability to lead high-pressure incident response efforts with confidence and clarity.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, especially with engineering and platform teams.
• High ownership, execution bias, and a collaborative mindset.
• Relevant certifications such as GCIA, GCIH, AWS Security, or Kubernetes Security Specialist :
• Perform application security testing and penetration testing of web application, APIs and mobile (ios / android) applications to identify potential vulnerabilities and risks.
• Conduct threat modelling, secure architecture review and application security assessments.
• Run DAST and SAST tools against the application and code and engage with the development team to prioritize and remediate findings in a timely manner.
• Drive the adoption of static and dynamic code analysis capabilities to catch flaws as part of the design and continuous integration.
• Provide guidance and direction for the evolution of security capability within our development processes and platform environment.
• Conducting security training and awareness sessions for developers and other stakeholders.
• Contribute to the adoption of bug bounty program in the organization.

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