Security Managed Services Practitioner
Project Role Description : Deliver and manage security services across client environments to ensure protection, compliance, and operational resilience.
Must have skills : Application Security Architecture and Design
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 7.5 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education
Tasks
You partner with product teams across the entire development lifecycle to embed security into the software development process and strengthening security of product architectures.
You champion security initiatives, actively enhance AppSec requirements and guidelines, and effectively promote their adoption across teams.
You drive secure AI adoption in development by guiding developers on secure AI-assisted coding, advancing security skills, contributing to AI-driven AppSec
workflows, and assessing threats to AI and agentic-AI systems.
You conduct and lead threat modeling sessions, security design reviews, and identify risk across services and platforms.
You help define and evolve our global AppSec strategy, contribute policies, processes, best practices, roadmaps, and KPIs
You support the development and rollout of a security champions program to build security awareness and capabilities within our product engineering.
You organize and conduct workshops, trainings, and knowledge-sharing sessions for developers and other technical stakeholders.
You mentor (junior) AppSec engineers and actively contribute to the growth and development of our internal AppSec team.
You collaborate on the evaluation and implementation of
new AppSec tools and services.
You stay up-to-date on the latest threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations across various tech stacks.
Required Skills and Qualifications
4+ years of experience in application security.
Solid understanding of secure software architecture, secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) practices, including threat modeling methodologies such as STRIDE
Strong interest in AI and AI security, ideally with some hands-on exposure to applying secure development practices or assessing risks in AI/GenAI systems.
Practical software development experience in modern environments.
Understanding of cloud architectures, with exposure to AWS being beneficial.
Familiarity with common AppSec tools, such as SAST, and SCA.
Exposure to Gen AI in a security context is an advantage
A collaborative mindset – you enjoy working with international, cross functional teams and driving alignment across stakeholders.
Excellent communication skills with fluency in English, both written and verbal.
Chennai
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