Cloud Security Engineer

About Slice, We Reimagine Banking

We've all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we're reimagining it. Our cornerstone products and services: savings account, credit card, UPI, ATMs, fixed deposits, borrow, and bank branch 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 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.

About the team:

Our engineers don't just build products, they engineer trust — trust that our systems are resilient, secure, and seamless for millions of users. 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.

• 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.

Requirements:

To succeed in this role, you'll 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, 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:

Life at Slice is good because:

• Competitive salaries.
• Comprehensive medical insurance for you & your family.
• Flexible work hours, but don't ping us at 3AM.
• 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.