Senior Cloud Security Specialist

Financial institutions face a significant challenge in providing efficient and secure services to their customers. This issue is particularly pronounced in India, where the banking industry has seen a surge in digital transactions. In response, Slice aims to revolutionize the way people bank by offering a seamless and trustworthy experience.

The company's cornerstone products and services are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in the control of the user. These include the slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, slice UPI ATMs, slice fixed deposits, slice borrow, and UPI-powered bank branches.

Slice enables its users to build financial stability and security through its innovative products. The company believes that the best products transcend demographics, much like great music touches most people. Therefore, it strives to create products that cater to diverse needs and preferences.

Slice is seeking a skilled Senior DevSecOps Engineer who can blend cloud infrastructure, security tooling, and automation into a robust developer and security platform. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with securing Kubernetes clusters, taming AWS services, streamlining security pipelines, and making vulnerabilities disappear before they are detected.

• Key Responsibilities:
• Design, configure, and secure core AWS services including VPC, TGW, VPN, security groups, and networking access.
• Strengthen Kubernetes/EKS clusters with best practices around RBAC, secrets management, runtime security, and policy-as-code.
• Implement and manage AWS security tools – IAM (SSO/Identity Center), SecurityHub, GuardDuty, Config, KMS, and Control Tower guardrails.
• Security Harden and maintain next-gen firewalls (Palo Alto, Fortinet) and their integration into our AWS workloads, setup security observability.
• Integrate security scanning into CI/CD pipelines (Trivy, SonarQube, Codecov, Inspector) to enforce quality gates.
• Set up and tune CSPM and SIEM platforms, and deploy WAF (Cloudflare), IDS/IPS solutions for active threat detection and mitigation.
• Build secure automation workflows using Linux fundamentals, scripting, and IaC for repeatable, auditable infrastructure.
• Partner with developers and platform engineers to enforce security without slowing down delivery.

Required Skills and Qualifications

Qualification Requirements:

• 4–7 years of experience in DevSecOps, Cloud Security, or Platform Engineering.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS core and security services (IAM, GuardDuty, SecurityHub, Config, Control Tower, KMS).
• Experience managing and securing Kubernetes/EKS workloads, with focus on RBAC, secrets, and runtime security.
• Solid understanding of AWS networking and security fundamentals (VPNs, VPCs, TGW, firewalls, routing).
• Practical knowledge of CSPM, SIEM, IDS/IPS, WAF solutions (Cloudflare) and firewall appliances (Palo/Fortinet).
• Familiarity with code quality and security scanning tools like SonarQube, Codecov, Trivy, Inspector.
• Strong fundamentals in Linux/Unix, scripting (Bash/Python), and cloud automation.
• Curiosity, eagerness to learn, and the ability to balance speed with security.

Benefits

We Offer:

• Competitive salaries.
• Comprehensive medical insurance for you & your family.
• Flexible work hours, but don't ping us at 3AM (seriously).
• Leaves & vacations crafted so you never miss what matters in life.
• Recognition & rewards that turn big and small wins into celebrations.
• A culture of learn and grow — upskilling opportunities, certifications, and hands-on exposure to cutting-edge tech.
• And yes, food, games, and a workspace that feels less like an office and more like your second home.

Life at Slice

Why Work Here?

• Life so good, you'd think we're kidding:
• At Slice, 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 strive to provide a workplace that feels less like an office and more like your second home.