Senior Cybersecurity Architect

About slice

We aim to make the world better at using money and time. Our major focus is on building a consumer experience that's fast, transparent, and feels good, because we believe that great products transcend demographics.

Our cornerstone products and services are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. They include savings accounts, credit cards, ATMs, fixed deposits, borrowing options, and bank branches.

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 when we feel happy and successful together.

We're backed by some of the world's leading investors.

About the team:

If you've ever wondered what keeps a digital financial platform both blazing fast and super secure, the answer lies in the invisible work of engineers like us. At slice, we don't just build products, we engineer trust – trust that our systems are resilient, secure, and seamless for millions of users. Here, you won't just be writing automation scripts or firewall rules – you'll be designing guardrails for the future of digital banking. And you'll have a team that has your back no matter how tricky the cloud puzzle looks.

About the role:

We're looking for a hands-on Senior DevSecOps Engineer who's excited about blending cloud infrastructure, security tooling, and automation into a robust developer and security platform. You'll be securing our Kubernetes clusters, taming AWS services, streamlining our security pipelines, and making vulnerabilities disappear before anyone knows they existed.

This is a high-impact role for someone who loves working on production-grade environments and cares equally about scalability and security. Here, your work will directly protect critical workloads while enabling developers to move faster.

• Design, configure, and secure core AWS services including VPCs, TGWs, VPNs, 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, set up 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, 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.

What you need:

• 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, TGWs, 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.

Life at slice:

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

• Competitive salaries.
• Comprehensive medical insurance for you & your family.
• Flexible work hours.
• 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.