Engineering Manager - Infrastructure Security

About the role:

The Platform & Infrastructure Engineering team owns the foundational estate that everything else runs on. The team designs, builds, automates, and operates scalable cloud-native systems across networks, security, data & storage, and compute. It carries significant regulatory and operational responsibility, with its platforms directly underpinning critical customer-facing systems such as payments and banking, so security and availability are not optional.

What you will do:

• Lead, hire and scale the Infrastructure Security team, setting goals, mentoring engineers, and developing technical leaders.

• Own the cloud and hybrid network security architecture and roadmap, balancing security, reliability, scalability, velocity and cost.

• Establish secure-by-design principles, guardrails and baseline configurations across AWS accounts, organizations and future cloud regions.

• Drive Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and platform automation to ensure security controls are version-controlled, tested, repeatable and consistently enforced.

• Own IAM, SSO/Identity Center, PAM, least-privilege access, just-in-time access and secrets management.

• Enforce encryption, KMS/HSM key management, certificate lifecycle management and data protection standards.

• Secure Kubernetes (EKS), compute workloads and container images through hardening, runtime protection and automated patching.

• Design secure network architecture, including VPC segmentation, hybrid connectivity, egress controls, firewalls, DNS security, IDS/IPS, and zero-trust access.

• Protect internet-facing services and APIs using DDoS mitigation, WAF, bot management, rate limiting, and API security controls.

• Harden CI/CD pipelines and implement DevSecOps practices, including short-lived credentials (OIDC), SCA, image scanning, SBOMs, artifact signing and provenance.

• Implement policy-as-code and admission controls to prevent misconfigured infrastructure and untrusted or vulnerable artifacts from reaching production.

• Govern open-source and third-party dependencies through vulnerability management, license compliance, and remediation of SLAs.

• Establish security metrics for control coverage, policy violations, exposure and remediation timelines; continuously detect and remediate misconfigurations and security drifts.

• Partner with Cybersecurity, AppSec, GRC and SOC teams to address security and compliance gaps and support audits.

• Lead infrastructure security incident responses, including DDoS attacks and cloud misconfigurations, and drive blameless post-incident reviews.

• Strengthen resilience through availability planning, disaster recovery, capacity management, incident readiness, and recovery exercises for critical infrastructure. 

What you will need:

• 9+ years in infrastructure, cloud or security engineering, including 2+ years managing and building high-performing teams.

• Deep hands-on expertise in AWS/GCP/Azure security (IAM, Organizations/SCPs, KMS, Security Hub, Guard Duty or equivalents) and cloud security architecture.

• Strong understanding of IAM, SSO, PAM, secrets management, encryption and key management.

• Deep expertise in cloud and data-center networking, hybrid connectivity, firewalls, WAF, DDoS protection and IDS/IPS.

• Practical experience with CI/CD hardening, SCA and image scanning, SBOMs, artifact signing and policy enforcement.

• Strong infrastructure-as-code skills (e.g., Terraform) and experience building guardrails at scale.

• Solid grounding in observability, incident management, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.

• Strong understanding of Linux, networking, and distributed systems.

• Experience designing infrastructure for high-scale, highly available environments.

• Experience in fintech, banking, or another highly regulated industry.

• Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments.

• Experience with RBI cyber security and IT governance directions, CERT-In guidelines, PCI DSS or NPCI audits.

• Depth in admission controllers, policy engines and runtime security tools.

• Certifications such as AWS Certified Security – Specialty, CCSP, CISSP or CKS.

• Contributions to security tooling, open source or the wider security community.

Life at slice: 

Life so good, you’d think we’re kidding:  

• Competitive salaries. Period.  

• An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependents. We’ll love you and take care of you, our promise.  

• Flexible working hours. Just don’t call us at 3AM, we like our sleep schedule.  

• Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life.     

• A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones throughout the year. Expect a gift coming your way anytime you kill it here.   

• Learning and upskilling opportunities. Seriously, not kidding.  

• Good food, games, and a cool office to make you feel like home. An environment so good, you’ll forget the term “colleagues can’t be your friends”. 

We believe in equality. Period. 

At slice, we are committed to building a diverse and talented workforce. We never discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by the applicable law. 

We consider all qualified job-seekers with criminal histories in a manner  consistent with the applicable law. Additionally, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities in order to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. 

Come join our crew!   

About slice:

slice

A new bank for a new India

slice’s purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We’ve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we’re reimagining it. We’re building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good, because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us.

Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, and slice business are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you’ll get to build things you’d use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.

We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.