Security Engineer

Business Unit- General & Administration

Job Title- Security Engineer

Location- Delhi / Bangalore (3 days in office)

About the Company :

Elucidata is an AI Solutions Tech Data-centric AI company on a mission to make life sciences AI-ready. Headquartered in San Francisco with a 120+ member team across the US and India, we’re building the future of data-centric AI for drug discovery. Our flagship AI-Agentic powered platform, Polly, helps research teams wrangle, harmonize, and analyze massive volumes of biomedical data, accelerating discoveries and making precision medicine a reality.

Recognized by Fast Company as the “Most Innovative Biotech Company of 2024,” Elucidata partners with 25+ leading organizations, including Pfizer, Novo Nordisk, Google DeepMind, Alnylam Therapeutics, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Research Institute. Backed by top VCs like Eight Roads, F-Prime, IvyCap, and Hyperplane.

With over 200 data products and AI solutions co-developed by 100+ domain experts, we’ve helped our partners achieve 4X faster R&D milestones and contribute to 16 therapies advancing toward FDA approval. At Elucidata, you’ll work at the intersection of AI, biology and impact while solving real-world challenges that accelerate the journey from data to discovery.

About the Role :

We are looking for a Security Engineer to strengthen Elucidata’s security posture across our cloud and on-prem environments. This role will be responsible for safeguarding our AWS infrastructure, driving vulnerability management initiatives, and ensuring compliance with key security frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise in cloud security, hands-on experience with IAM and monitoring tools, and a proactive approach to managing risks and incidents. As Elucidata’s security function continues to evolve, this role offers the opportunity to build scalable security practices, automate workflows, and integrate DevSecOps principles into our engineering ecosystem.

What You’ll Own :

• Cloud Security Stack Management - Own and maintain Elucidata’s AWS cloud security posture, ensuring secure configurations, continuous monitoring, and compliance with best practices.
• Vulnerability Management - Lead vulnerability scanning, assessment, prioritization, and remediation tracking across cloud, on-prem, and application environments.
• Identity & Access Governance - Design, implement, and maintain IAM and PAM controls to enforce least-privilege access and perform regular User Access Reviews.
• Security Frameworks & Compliance - Ensure alignment with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and other relevant frameworks; lead internal and external audits.
• Incident Response - Manage incident detection, triage, and coordination with internal teams and external partners to ensure effective resolution.
• Security Monitoring & Alert Management - Oversee monitoring tools and coordinate alert triage with managed security service providers (MSSPs).
• Stakeholder Management - Collaborate with Engineering, IT, Compliance, and Business teams to ensure security requirements are understood and integrated.
• Infrastructure Hardening - Maintain secure configuration baselines and enforce system and network hardening measures.
• Metrics & Reporting - Produce regular security posture reports and communicate risk and compliance status to leadership.

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We are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and an affirmative-action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, caste, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.

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