Head of TechOps and Security
Full-time
Weekday AI
This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Min Experience: 12+ years
Location: Mumbai
JobType: full-time
We are looking for an experienced and strategic Head of TechOps & Security to lead our technology operations, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and security functions. This role is ideal for a technology leader with 12–18 years of experience who can build highly reliable, secure, scalable, and well-governed technology environments.
The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on and leadership experience across AWS DevOps, DevOps engineering, cloud infrastructure, security, automation, and cloud governance . You will work closely with engineering, product, and business leadership to establish robust technology operations, strengthen security posture, improve system reliability, and create scalable governance frameworks.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the overall TechOps, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, and Security strategy in alignment with business and technology objectives.
- Design and manage highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure primarily across AWS cloud environments .
- Establish and improve DevOps practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, configuration management, observability, monitoring, and incident management .
- Build and mentor high-performing teams across DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, cloud operations, and security.
- Define and implement cloud governance frameworks , standards, policies, and controls covering infrastructure, access, security, compliance, and resource management.
- Drive infrastructure-as-code and automation using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible , or equivalent technologies.
- Establish strong cloud security practices around IAM, networking, encryption, secrets management, logging, vulnerability management, and access controls .
- Develop disaster recovery, business continuity, backup, and high-availability strategies for critical systems.
- Partner with engineering teams to integrate security and operational best practices into the software development lifecycle.
- Establish effective monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, performance management, and operational excellence practices.
- Own technology risk management, security assessments, audits, and remediation programs.
- Identify opportunities to optimize cloud infrastructure and improve AWS cost management and resource utilization .
- Develop and maintain policies for technology operations, security, access management, and cloud usage.
- Lead responses to major infrastructure incidents and security events, ensuring timely resolution and root-cause analysis.
- Stay current with emerging cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, and infrastructure technologies and evaluate their applicability to the organization.
Required Qualifications
- 12–18 years of overall experience in technology infrastructure, DevOps, cloud operations, SRE, cybersecurity, or related domains.
- Proven experience leading TechOps, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, and/or Security teams .
- Strong expertise in AWS cloud services and AWS DevOps practices .
- Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, orchestration, automation, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture, networking, IAM, monitoring, logging, and security.
- Experience establishing and enforcing Cloud Governance frameworks and operational standards.
- Strong understanding of security principles, risk management, compliance, and technology controls.
- Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Good-to-Have Skills
- AWS DevOps
- DevOps
- Cloud Governance
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform / CloudFormation
- Kubernetes / Docker
- CI/CD automation
- Cloud Security
- SRE and Observability
- FinOps / Cloud Cost Optimization
- Security and Compliance Automation
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
What Success Looks Like
Success in this role will mean building a secure, reliable, scalable, and well-governed technology environment that enables engineering teams to move faster while maintaining strong operational and security standards.
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