Application & Cloud Security Lead

Jobtailor; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

S&P Global Energy Division is seeking an experienced security leader to drive application, cloud, and AI security across the organization. You will conduct architecture reviews, embed security in design and operations, and enforce secure coding practices while coordinating across engineering, product, and business teams.

You will oversee cloud security, assess AI risks, and report security posture through dashboards and executive briefings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5–8+ years experience in cybersecurity, with a strong focus on application security, cloud security, security architecture, and/or technology risk management.
• Experience conducting security architecture reviews for applications, APIs, cloud platforms, data platforms, and enterprise technology solutions.
• Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD security, container security, Kubernetes security, infrastructure‑as‑code scanning, secrets management, and software supply chain security.
• Experience with cloud security tools such as CSPM, CWPP, CNAPP, SIEM, vulnerability management platforms, container scanners, and identity governance tools.
• Familiar with AI security concepts such as prompt injection, model access control, sensitive data exposure, model monitoring, adversarial testing, AI red teaming, and third‑party AI risk.
• Experience working with public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience partnering with cross‑functional stakeholders including technology, product, risk, compliance, privacy, legal, and business teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical security risks to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Ability to prioritise risks, influence remediation, and drive outcomes in a complex enterprise environment.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, SABSA, CCSK, Cloud Vendor Certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Security — Specialty, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer) or equivalent credentials.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate application, cloud, and AI security initiatives across the Energy Division in alignment with cyber risk management objectives.
• Conduct security architecture reviews for applications, APIs, cloud platforms, data flows, integrations, and AI-enabled solutions to identify risks and recommend secure design improvements.
• Partner with engineering, product, architecture, cloud, and business teams to embed security requirements into solution design, development, deployment, and operations.
• Enforce application security controls, including secure coding practices, vulnerability remediation, authentication, authorization, secrets management, dependency security, and software supply chain risk management.
• Oversee cloud security control implementation across public cloud environments, including IAM, network security, encryption, logging, monitoring, workload protection, and secure configuration.
• Review and assess AI/ML use cases for security risks, including data leakage, prompt injection, model exposure, access control, third‑party AI risk, and misuse scenarios.
• Track, prioritize, and drive remediation of findings, exceptions, and risk acceptances with accountable technology owners.
• Support cyber risk assessments, compliance reviews, audit requests, and security reporting related to Energy Division applications, cloud services, and AI-enabled platforms.
• Develop and maintain metrics, dashboards, and executive‑level reporting to communicate security posture, risk trends, remediation progress, and key security initiatives.
• Serve as a trusted security advisor and liaison between the Energy Division and Enterprise cybersecurity teams, promoting secure-by-design practices and consistent adoption of standards.

Skills

Application security

Cloud security

Security architecture

Technology risk management

DevSecOps

CI/CD security

Kubernetes security

Secure coding practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field

Tools

CSPM

CWPP

CNAPP

SIEM

container scanners

identity governance tools

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate application, cloud, and AI security initiatives across the S&P Global Energy Division in alignment with S&P Global's cyber risk management objectives.
• Conduct security architecture reviews for applications, APIs, cloud platforms, data flows, integrations, and AI-enabled solutions to identify risks and recommend secure design improvements.
• Partner with engineering, product, architecture, cloud, and business teams to embed security requirements into solution design, development, deployment, and operations.
• Enforce application security controls, including secure coding practices, vulnerability remediation, authentication, authorization, secrets management, dependency security, and software supply chain risk management.
• Oversee cloud security control implementation across public cloud environments, including identity and access management, network security, encryption, logging, monitoring, workload protection, and secure configuration.
• Review and assess AI and machine learning use cases for security risks, including data leakage, prompt injection, model exposure, access control, third‑party AI risk, and misuse scenarios.
• Track, prioritize, and drive remediation of application, cloud, and AI security findings, exceptions, and risk acceptances in partnership with accountable technology owners.
• Support cyber risk assessments, compliance reviews, audit requests, and security reporting related to Energy Division applications, cloud services, and AI‑enabled platforms.
• Develop and maintain metrics, dashboards, and executive‑level reporting to communicate security posture, risk trends, remediation progress, and key security initiatives.
• Serve as a trusted security advisor and liaison between the Energy Division and Enterprise cybersecurity teams, promoting secure‑by‑design practices and consistent adoption of security standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5‑8+ years experience in cybersecurity, with a strong focus on application security, cloud security, security architecture, and/or technology risk management.
• Experience conducting security architecture reviews for applications, APIs, cloud platforms, data platforms, and enterprise technology solutions.
• Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD security, container security, Kubernetes security, infrastructure‑as‑code scanning, secrets management, and software supply chain security.
• Experience with cloud security tools such as CSPM, CWPP, CNAPP, SIEM, vulnerability management platforms, container scanners, and identity governance tools.
• Familiar with AI security concepts such as prompt injection, model access control, sensitive data exposure, model monitoring, adversarial testing, AI red teaming, and third‑party AI risk.
• Experience working with public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience partnering with cross‑functional stakeholders including technology, product, risk, compliance, privacy, legal, and business teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical security risks to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Ability to prioritise risks, influence remediation, and drive outcomes in a complex enterprise environment.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, SABSA, CCSK, Cloud Vendor Certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Security — Specialty, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer) or equivalent credentials.