AVP/Sr. Assoc, Security Engineer (IAM), Information Security Services, Group Technology

AVP/ Sr.Assoc, Security Engineer (IAM), Information Security Services, Group Technology 

Business Function

Group Technology empowers the bank with an efficient,nimbleand resilient infrastructure and system through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, coupled with strengthening people capability and banking on innovation. In Group Technology, we managethe majority ofthe Bank's operational processes and inspire to delight our business partners and customers through our multiple banking delivery channels.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experiencedSecurity Engineer with a strongapplicationdevelopment background to design, build, and implement secure solutions within the Identity and Access Management (IAM) space, focusing onsecrets management. This role involves driving secure integration of applications and platforms,includingprovidingoperationalsupport for highly resilient systems, and partnering with various teams to deliver secure-by-default services at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test,operate, and continuously improve enterprisesecurity solutions for IAMinvolvingsecretsmanagement (namelyAPIandSSHkeys, SSL/TLScertificates etc)across various application deployment environments.

• Engineer andoperatehighly available, resilient, and secure application-focused platforms for secrets management, workload identityand service-to-service authentication.

• Configure, manage, and support secrets management solutions and related technologies for applications, including authentication methods, secret engines, policy management, audit logging, replication, backup, disaster recovery, and platform upgrades.

• Integrate applications, APIs, microservices, batch workloads, containers, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native platforms with IAM services using secure, automated, and repeatable development patterns, with emphasis on secure API design and implementation.

• Develop robust automation, reusable tooling, APIs, scripts, and Infrastructure as Code to reduce manual effort, improve consistency, strengthen controls, and accelerate secure application onboarding.

• Provideoperationalsupport for criticalsecurity platforms, including monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, escalation management, root-cause analysis, and implementation of preventive actions.

• Partner with application development, DevOps, cloud, risk, audit, and security operations teams to embed robust application security and IAM controls into software development lifecycles and delivery pipelines.

• Maintain operational documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, control evidence, service metrics, and knowledge articles to support audit readiness and sustainable operations for application security services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security,Engineeringor equivalent practical experience.

• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in application security, security engineering, software development, or IAM, with at least 3 years of hands-on experience in secrets managementsolution, machine/non-human identity,PKIorservice-to-service authentication.

• Strong software engineering capability in Java and at least one scripting or automation language (e.g., Python, JavaScript/Node.js, Go, or shell scripting) for security tool development and automation.

• Strong hands-on development and implementation experience with enterprise secrets management solutions including production deployment, configuration, operations, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management for applications.

• Experience designing, developing, andoperatinghighly resilient application systems, including clustering, failover, backup and restore, disaster recovery, observability, capacity management, and service reliability practices.

• Practical experience with secure API design and development, cryptography concepts, TLS/SSL, certificates, key management, SSH key management, token-based authentication, OAuth/OIDC, JWT, SAML, or workload identity patterns.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code for application deployments, container platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker), and cloud services across AWS, Azure, or GCP in a development and security context.

• Proven experience in requirements gathering, secure solution design, development, integration testing, performance testing, change implementation, and production support for enterprise application technology platforms.

Functional / Technical Competencies

• Deep understanding of non-human identities, including service accounts, application identities, workload identities, managed identities, service principals, API credentials, certificates, keys, and tokens.

• Strong knowledge of identity lifecycle governance for machine and application identities, including discovery, ownership, onboarding, least privilege, rotation, expiry, decommissioning, monitoring, and auditability.

• Strong understanding of secure coding practices, application security principles, cryptography, threatmodeling, secrets handlingand secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) practices.

• Strong technical knowledge of APIs, cloud platforms, Kubernetes or containers, and enterprise monitoring or logging tools, with an emphasis on development and security integration.

• Ability to troubleshoot complex production issues across application, identity, and related layers while communicating clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong automation mindset with experience using CI/CD, Git-based workflows, policy-as-code, configuration management, and repeatable engineering practices for security development.

• Good documentation, stakeholder engagement, mentoring, and operational discipline expectedtosupportcritical bankingtechnology services.