Application & Cloud Security Lead

S&P Global, Inc.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible time off

Continuous learning

Retirement planning

Job summary

S&P Global Energy Division seeks an Application & Cloud Security Lead to drive security across applications, cloud, and AI-enabled platforms. You will translate security requirements into practical controls, influence engineering teams, and deliver measurable cyber resilience improvements.

This hands-on leadership role partners with technology, product, cloud, risk, compliance, and business stakeholders to secure architecture, delivery, and operations across the Energy Division.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in relevant field with 5–8+ years in cybersecurity.
• Experience conducting security architecture reviews for apps, APIs, and cloud platforms.
• Familiar with DevSecOps, container security, IaC scanning, and software supply-chain security.

Responsibilities

• Lead security initiatives across application, cloud, and AI security within the Energy Division.
• Perform architecture reviews and embed security requirements into design and delivery.
• Enforce controls including secure coding, access management, secrets, and supply chain risk.
• Oversee cloud security controls: IAM, network, encryption, logging, and monitoring.
• Assess AI/ML use cases for data leakage, model risk, and access control; manage findings.

Skills

Security architecture reviews

Cloud security

DevSecOps

AI security concepts

Public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Stakeholder collaboration

Security governance & risk

Vulnerability management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

CSPM

CWPP

CNAPP

SIEM

Container scanners

IAM tools

Job description

About the Role

Grade Level (for internal use): 11 Role Summary The Application & Cloud Security Lead will serve as a key security leader within the S&P Global Energy Division BISO team, responsible for coordinating security initiatives across application, cloud, and AI-enabled environments. This role directly supports the protection of applications, data, systems, and reputation by proactively managing cyber risk, strengthening resilience and embedding security into everything we do. The successful candidate will partner with technology, product, engineering, cloud, risk, compliance, and business stakeholders to ensure security is integrated into architecture, delivery, operations, and innovation. The role will focus on security architecture reviews, application security governance, cloud security enforcement, AI security oversight, risk remediation, and alignment with enterprise cybersecurity standards. This position requires a hands‑on security leader who can translate cybersecurity requirements into practical controls, influence engineering teams, guide secure design decisions, and drive measurable improvements in cyber resilience across the Energy Division.

Key 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.

Required 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.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission: Advancing Essential Intelligence. Our People: We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide - so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards - small perks can make a big difference.

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