Application Security Architect

Sutherland; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Sutherland in Hyderabad, India, seeks a Cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert (SME) to provide deep technical guidance and governance for cybersecurity across products, platforms, cloud services, and software engineering initiatives.

The SME partners with architects, engineering teams, DevOps, QA, product management and cybersecurity stakeholders to embed security-by-design throughout the product lifecycle and leads threat modeling, TRA, and risk assessments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years in software engineering, cloud/platform engineering, or cybersecurity.
• 5+ years in product cybersecurity, application security, or security architecture.
• Experience in regulated healthcare or medical devices is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary cybersecurity expert for products, platforms, and services.
• Provide architecture guidance, design reviews, and implementation recommendations.
• Lead Threat Modeling, TRA, and cybersecurity risk assessments.
• Drive vulnerability management, remediation tracking, and incident support.
• Coordinate penetration testing and security assessments.
• Support SSDLC and SBOM governance; guide SAST/DAST/SCA usage.
• Develop cybersecurity standards, procedures, and secure baselines.
• Ensure compliance with NIST, ISO 27001/27002, FDA Cybersecurity Guidance.
• Provide cybersecurity training, mentoring, and technical leadership.
• Collaborate with distributed teams across USA, Canada, Finland, Switzerland, India.

Skills

Application Security

Threat Modeling

Cloud Security

Kubernetes Security

IAM

Vulnerability Management

SAST/DAST/SCA

SBOM Governance

NIST/ISO 27001

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Cybersecurity/Software Engineering

Tools

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

SAST/DAST tools

SBOM Tools

Job description

Cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert (SME) -

Position Summary:

The Cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert (SME) provides deep technical expertise, guidance, and governance for cybersecurity across products, platforms, cloud services, and software engineering initiatives. The SME partners with architects, engineering teams, DevOps, QA, product management, and cybersecurity stakeholders to ensure security-by-design principles are embedded throughout the product lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Act as the primary cybersecurity expert for assigned products, platforms, and services.
2. Provide cybersecurity architecture guidance, design reviews, and implementation recommendations.
3. Lead Threat Modeling, Threat & Risk Analysis (TRA), and cybersecurity risk assessments.
4. Drive vulnerability management, remediation tracking, and security incident support activities.
5. Coordinate penetration testing and security assessments.
6. Support secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) implementation.
7. Guide teams on SAST, DAST, Software Composition Analysis (SCA), and SBOM governance.
8. Develop and maintain cybersecurity standards, procedures, guidelines, and secure baselines.
9. Support compliance with NIST, ISO 27001/27002, FDA Cybersecurity Guidance, and IEC 81001-5-1.
10. Provide cybersecurity training, mentoring, and technical leadership.
11. Work with geographically distributed development teams in USA, Canada, Finland, Switzerland, and India

Required Qualifications

1. Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, or related field.
2. 8+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or cybersecurity.
3. 5+ years of direct experience in product cybersecurity, application security, or security architecture.
4. Experience in regulated healthcare or medical device environments preferred.

Technical Skills

1. Application Security, Product Security, Secure SDLC
2. Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment
3. Azure/AWS Cloud Security
4. Container and Kubernetes Security
5. Identity & Access Management
6. Vulnerability Management and Incident Response
7. SAST, DAST, SCA and SBOM tools
8. OWASP Top 10, NIST, ISO 27001/27002

Preferred Certifications

1. CISSP
2. CSSLP
3. CCSP
4. CEH
5. Azure Security Engineer Associate
6. CKS