Simpplr

Director, Security Operations

Simpplr

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Gurugram • 🇮🇳 India

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud Platform

About the role

  • Define Simpplr’s product security and security operations strategy and implements plans to execute on them.
  • Lead daily security operations across cloud infrastructure and application layers, including vulnerability management, threat monitoring, and incident triage.
  • Manage the lifecycle of externally reported security vulnerabilities, ensuring timely triage, tracking, and remediation.
  • Monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts and suspicious behavior, with a focus on both infrastructure and product layers.
  • Support the security posture of AI features, including model threat assessments, abuse detection, and secure prompt handling.
  • Partner with engineering teams to embed security controls into the development lifecycle, with special attention to AI features and data pipelines.
  • Participate in internal security reviews, including the testing and hardening of AI and SaaS components.
  • Coordinate and manage security tickets, playbooks, runbooks, and workflows across platforms.
  • Contribute to cloud security monitoring, automation, and the coordinate and oversee the development of detection use cases.
  • Research and track AI security trends, adversarial ML risks, prompt injection threats, and model exploitation vectors.
  • Support audits, compliance efforts, and reporting as needed.
  • Identify key security metrics and keep executive management informed of Simpplr’s security posture at all times.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in the software industry with 10+ years in security operations, cloud security, or infrastructure/product security roles.
  • Proven experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure) and associated security best practices.
  • Prior experience with MDR, SIEM and related security tools.
  • Very good knowledge of and experience with secure development lifecycle including securing the entire supply chain and CI/CD pipeline.
  • Experience in vulnerability management, incident response, and log analysis and traceability.
  • Understanding of application security principles, secure coding practices, and risk mitigation strategies.
  • Solid grasp of AI/ML fundamentals and awareness of associated threat vectors (e.g., model extraction, adversarial inputs, prompt injection).
  • Experience working with threat intelligence, security testing, and cross-functional engineering teams.
  • Strong communication and documentation skills, with a disciplined and self-driven mindset.
Benefits
  • Hub-Hybrid-Remote Model
  • Flexibility to work from home and office
  • In-person collaboration opportunities

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
cloud securityvulnerability managementincident responselog analysissecure development lifecyclesecure coding practicesrisk mitigation strategiesAI/ML fundamentalsthreat intelligencesecurity testing
Soft skills
strong communication skillsdocumentation skillsself-driven mindsetleadershiporganizational skills