Cloud Security Engineer

Job Title: Cloud Security Engineer

Location: Bangalore

Department: Technology

Reports to: Head of Cloud Infra

TookiTaki, the global leader building the Trust Layer for Financial Services, is strengthening its cloud security foundation as we scale our AI-driven AML and fraud-detection platforms across global banks and fintechs. We are looking for a Cloud Security Engineer who blends deep cloud expertise with uncompromising security standards — someone who can design, harden, and defend the cloud environments that power our mission. If secure, resilient, and scalable infrastructure is your playground, welcome home

.Roles & Responsibilities

1. Cloud Security Architecture

• Design and implement secure cloud architectures across AW
• SEnsure systems meet enterprise-grade security, availability, and performance requirements
• .Drive secure-by-default principles across deployments, services, and automation pipelines

.2. Security Hardening & Compliance

• Own and maintain PCI-DSS–aligned cloud security controls
• .Lead infrastructure hardening across compute, data, storage, network, and IAM
• .Implement end-to-end compliance guardrails, auditing, and continuous monitoring
• .Drive patching, vulnerability management, and threat exposure reduction

.3. Threat Detection & Incident Response

• Develop runtime threat detection and alerting frameworks (SIEM/SOAR, IDS, CSPM)
• .Conduct compromise assessments and respond to potential breaches with speed and clarity
• .Act as the primary escalation point for security incidents and lead root cause analysis
• .Continuously enhance detection logic using emerging threats from the AFC ecosystem

.4. Security Automation & DevSecOps

• Integrate security tooling into CI/CD workflows (SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning)
• .Automate policies using IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation) and policy-as-code frameworks
• .Build automated remediation playbooks to reduce manual intervention

.5. Identity, Access & Secrets Management

• Implement and govern IAM standards across cloud environments
• .Build least-privilege, zero-trust access frameworks
• .Maintain secure secrets management via Vault, KMS, or similar tooling

.6. Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

• Lead DR planning and execution with clear RTO/RPO targets

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• RsAchieve 99.9% secure and compliant uptime for all cloud infrastructur
• e.Reduce high-risk vulnerabilities by 90% within the first 6 month
• s.Implement full Cloud Security Monitoring & Alerting within 90 day
• s.Shift-left security across CI/CD pipelines with 100% automated check
• s.Reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) for security incidents by 50

%.
Requiremen

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Educat

• ion:Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equival
• ent.Preferred: Master's degree in Cybersecurity or Cloud Secur

ity.Experie

• nce:5–9 years in cloud engineering or cloud security ro
• les.Proven hands-on experience securing cloud platforms AWS at sc
• ale.Experience in regulated or compliance-heavy environments (fintech, banking, regtech) prefer

red.Technical Experti

• se: Strong understanding of cloud security frameworks (CIS, NIST, PCI-D
• SS).Expertise with IaC tools: Terraform, CloudFormat
• ion.Hands-on experience with Kubernetes security (E
• KS).Ability to detect, triage and prevent network-level vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in the cloud infrastruct
• ure.Hands-on with container security (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS/G
• KE).Experience with cloud-native security tools (GuardDuty, Security Hub, GCP SCC, Prisma, Wiz, et
• c.).Strong knowledge of monitoring & logging stacks (ELK, Prometheus, Grafa
• na).Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java for security automat