# Lead Security Engineer - Company: [Arcanaanalytics]() - Location: Bangalore, Hybrid - Team: Engineering - Posted: June 13, 2025 ## Job description As our Lead Security Engineer, you'll own and elevate Arcana's overall security posture - cloud, on-prem, and everything in between. You'll design and enforce policies, automate controls, and harden infrastructure end-to-end. While your primary focus will be on our GCP resources, you'll also partner with teams across networking, applications, and compliance to ensure we're secure by design and resistant to drift. **Responsibilities:** * Enterprise Security Architecture - Governance and Compliance, including driving adherence to ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, and enforcing CIS benchmarks on all infrastructure. * Policy, Automation, and Guardrails - own the end-to-end security lifecycle by defining policy-as-code, embedding continuous compliance checks into CI/CD, and building automated, drift-resistant guardrails across cloud, containers, and VMs. * Infrastructure Hardening and Drift Detection - implement automated drift alerts and self-healing playbooks for VPCs, firewall rules, Kubernetes clusters, and endpoints. * Monitoring, Logging, and Incident Response - configure Cloud Audit Logs, SIEM exports, and custom alerts for critical security events; lead root-cause investigations, build detection logic, and develop runbooks for cloud-wide incidents. **Requirements:** * 5+ years driving security and compliance in dynamic, regulated environments- securing cloud-native platforms and hybrid infrastructures, with deep familiarity in fintech and portfolio-management standards, and best practices for supporting distributed, remote teams. * Deep expertise with GCP security (IAM, KMS, VPC Service Controls, Cloud Logging/Audit, WAF, SecOps) and Kubernetes application hardening. * Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills (Terraform or equivalent) and GitOps experience (ArgoCD, Flux). * Proficiency in Python scripting and policy-as-code frameworks (OPA, Gatekeeper). * Excellent communicator - able to translate technical findings into clear policies and remediation plans. **Helpful Experience:** * Familiarity with multi-cloud security controls. * Security certifications (GCP Professional Security Engineer, CISSP, CKA/CKS). * Experience with service mesh (Istio/Anthos) or zero-trust architectures. ## Apply [Apply on Arcanaanalytics]() Canonical job page: