Senior Technical Specialist

HCLTech
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📍 Hyderabad, India

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Job Summary

Platform Security Engineer / SRE 2 Strong experience as a Platform Security Engineer, Cloud Security Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer or DevSecOps Engineer in cloud-native environments.
Hands-on experience securing cloud-native platforms, preferably GCP and GKE, including identity, IAM, networking, Kubernetes security, workload identity and platform hardening.
Experience with secrets management, certificate management, encryption, access controls, service-to-service security, mTLS and runtime security patterns.
Good working knowledge of Kubernetes, Istio or service mesh technologies, ingress/egress controls, network policies and secure workload deployment patterns.
Experience integrating security controls into operational processes, including monitoring, alerting, vulnerability remediation, incident response, evidence capture and continual improvement.
Strong understanding of CI/CD security, policy-as-code, container security, dependency risk, artefact controls and secure software supply chain principles.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform, and automation to standardise security controls and reduce manual intervention.
Ability to work across engineering, SRE, cyber/security, risk, architecture, supplier and operations teams to deliver pragmatic platform controls.		 Banking or core banking platform experience.
Experience working with Thought Machine Vault.
Experience supporting large-scale distributed systems and business-critical regulated platforms.
Experience with GCP Security Command Centre, IAM, KMS, Secret Manager, Vault, Kubernetes admission controls, OPA, container scanning or runtime security tooling.
Experience with Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, GKE, Istio, Apigee, Kafka, Terraform or CI/CD tooling.
Understanding of operational resilience, audit, risk, evidence capture and compliance expectations within a regulated environment.

 

Key Responsibilities

GCP Cloud Security Engineering & IAM Management
Kubernetes (GKE) Security Engineeri
Platform Security
Secrets Management & Encryption Engineering
Certificate Management & PKI Operations
Service-to-Service Security & mTLS Architecture
Istio Service Mesh Security & Traffic Governance
Network Security Engineering & Kubernetes Network Policies
Runtime Security Monitoring & Workload Protection
Vulnerability Management & Security Remediation
CI/CD Security & Secure Software Supply Chain
Policy-as-Code & Security Governance Automation
Container Security & Image Governance
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) Security Automation
Security Monitoring, Alerting & Incident Response
Operational Security & SRE Collaboration
Audit Evidence, Compliance & Regulatory Controls
Cross-Functional Security Stakeholder Management
GCP Security Command Center (SCC) & Cloud Security Operations
KMS, Secret Manager & Vault Security Platforms
OPA (Open Policy Agent) & Admission Control Security
Thought Machine Vault Platform Security
Core Banking Platform Security & Regulatory Compliance
Dynatrace/OpenTelemetry Security Observability
Apigee API Security & Gateway Governance
Kafka Security & Event Platform Protection
Operational Resilience, Risk & Control Assurance

 

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