Head of Systems Security

Develop and implement the enterprise-wide Systems & Cloud Security strategy, ensuring alignment with overall cybersecurity roadmap. Establish and maintain security standards, baselines, and architectural principles for infrastructure and cloud workloads. Provide expert input to security governance forums, steering committees, audit committees, and senior leadership.

Develop policies, procedures, and frameworks for infrastructure and cloud security consistent with ISO 27001, NIST, CIS, PCI-DSS, etc. Oversee the security posture of data centers, servers, networks, virtualization platforms, endpoints, Container, Kubernetes and cloud environments (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS). Lead and review security architecture assessments, design validations, and hardening initiatives across IT infrastructure.

Oversee virtualization platform security including hypervisor hardening and secure VM templates. Lead the implementation of cloud‑native security controls including AWS, Azure Defender, WAF, DDoS protection, container runtime security, and workload protection solutions (CWPP). Govern secure design of cloud network architectures including Transit Gateway, VPC/VNet segmentation, peering, private link services, ingress/egress filtering, and cloud firewalls.

Oversee Cloud Identity Entitlement Management (CIEM) to eliminate excessive permissions, toxic combinations, and misconfigurations across multi‑cloud environments. Ensure continuous security risk assessments, configuration reviews, and vulnerability management for infrastructure components. Drive implementation of Zero Trust, Identity & Access Security, Network Segmentation, Endpoint Protection, and Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) Lead cyber defense initiatives for infrastructure and cloud environments in coordination with SOC & incident response teams.

Oversee incident investigations impacting systems, cloud services, servers, and infrastructure components. Ensure rapid remediation of vulnerabilities and audit findings Maintain IS Risk Register People Management Lead, mentor, and develop a team of security specialists and analysts. Collaborate closely with Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Network, DevOps, and IT Operations teams.

Engage senior management, vendors, and business teams for strategic security guidance. Manage vendor relationships, contracts, and budgets for infrastructure and cloud security projects. Lead annual performance evaluation, goal setting, and capability development for the Systems & Cloud Security team. Build and mentor a succession-ready talent pipeline with expertise in multi-cloud security, Dev.

Sec. Ops, and infrastructure protection.

Minimum qualifications

Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Information Security or MIS Preferably at least one of the following professional certification: CCSP CISM CISSP ISO AWS Security Specialty Azure Security Engineer / Solutions Architect GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer Minimum experience: Minimum 8 years of experience in Information Technology/ Information Security / IT Risk Management