Lead TechOps, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, and Security strategy. Build scalable, secure AWS environments, implement IaC and CI/CD, enforce cloud governance, run incident and risk management, mentor teams, optimize costs, and integrate security into the SDLC.
This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Min Experience: 12+ years
Location: Mumbai
JobType: full-time
We are looking for an experienced and strategic Head of TechOps & Security to lead our technology operations, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and security functions. This role is ideal for a technology leader with 12–18 years of experience who can build highly reliable, secure, scalable, and well-governed technology environments.
The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on and leadership experience across AWS DevOps, DevOps engineering, cloud infrastructure, security, automation, and cloud governance. You will work closely with engineering, product, and business leadership to establish robust technology operations, strengthen security posture, improve system reliability, and create scalable governance frameworks.
RequirementsKey Responsibilities
- Lead the overall TechOps, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, and Security strategy in alignment with business and technology objectives.
- Design and manage highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure primarily across AWS cloud environments.
- Establish and improve DevOps practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, configuration management, observability, monitoring, and incident management.
- Build and mentor high-performing teams across DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, cloud operations, and security.
- Define and implement cloud governance frameworks, standards, policies, and controls covering infrastructure, access, security, compliance, and resource management.
- Drive infrastructure-as-code and automation using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent technologies.
- Establish strong cloud security practices around IAM, networking, encryption, secrets management, logging, vulnerability management, and access controls.
- Develop disaster recovery, business continuity, backup, and high-availability strategies for critical systems.
- Partner with engineering teams to integrate security and operational best practices into the software development lifecycle.
- Establish effective monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, performance management, and operational excellence practices.
- Own technology risk management, security assessments, audits, and remediation programs.
- Identify opportunities to optimize cloud infrastructure and improve AWS cost management and resource utilization.
- Develop and maintain policies for technology operations, security, access management, and cloud usage.
- Lead responses to major infrastructure incidents and security events, ensuring timely resolution and root-cause analysis.
- Stay current with emerging cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, and infrastructure technologies and evaluate their applicability to the organization.
- 12–18 years of overall experience in technology infrastructure, DevOps, cloud operations, SRE, cybersecurity, or related domains.
- Proven experience leading TechOps, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, and/or Security teams.
- Strong expertise in AWS cloud services and AWS DevOps practices.
- Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, orchestration, automation, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture, networking, IAM, monitoring, logging, and security.
- Experience establishing and enforcing Cloud Governance frameworks and operational standards.
- Strong understanding of security principles, risk management, compliance, and technology controls.
- Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- AWS DevOps
- DevOps
- Cloud Governance
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform / CloudFormation
- Kubernetes / Docker
- CI/CD automation
- Cloud Security
- SRE and Observability
- FinOps / Cloud Cost Optimization
- Security and Compliance Automation
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Success in this role will mean building a secure, reliable, scalable, and well-governed technology environment that enables engineering teams to move faster while maintaining strong operational and security standards.
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