Security Architect - Bengaluru

Own end-to-end security architecture across cloud, applications, and APIs. This is a hands-on builder role focused on securing production systems, driving compliance, and partnering closely with engineering, customers, auditors, and regulators. Company Details AiPrise is an AI-powered global compliance platform helping fintechs and businesses with KYB, KYC, fraud prevention, risk scoring, and compliance automation across 200+ countries. Website: aiprise.com Requirements - 8+ years of experience in security engineering, security architecture, or a closely related field. - Proven experience securing production systems at scale. - Strong hands-on understanding of application code, cloud infrastructure, and API security. - Strong cloud security expertise across IAM, network segmentation, secrets and key management, containers, workloads, and infrastructure-as-code. - Deep knowledge of application and API security, including access control, injection, SSRF, authentication, authorization, and secure design. - Experience with threat modeling, security design reviews, secure SDLC, CI/CD security, dependency security, and container security. - Strong understanding of SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, GDPR, and related security and privacy requirements. - Experience leading certification, enterprise customer, and regulatory audits and driving findings to closure. - Strong stakeholder and customer-facing communication skills. - Strong risk judgment with the ability to balance security, business, and delivery needs. - Experience with personal, identity, or biometric data is preferred. - Experience in fintech, regtech, identity verification, or another regulated domain is preferred. - Penetration testing, red teaming, vulnerability research, or DevSecOps experience is preferred. - CISSP, CCSP, OSCP, CIPP, CIPT, or similar certifications are valued. - Experience mentoring or leading engineers is preferred. Responsibilities - Own and evolve security architecture across cloud infrastructure, applications, and APIs. - Partner directly with engineers to identify, prioritize, remediate, and validate security issues. - Perform threat modeling and security design reviews for new services and major changes. - Embed security into engineering through secure coding standards, code review, CI/CD controls, dependency security, and container security. - Define and maintain security standards, reference architectures, and hardening baselines. - Lead penetration testing, vulnerability management, remediation tracking, and closure of security findings. - Translate regulatory and industry requirements into practical technical and organizational controls. - Own technical audit and assessment activities, including evidence, control mapping, and remediation. - Support enterprise customer security reviews, questionnaires, due diligence, and trust discussions. - Partner with privacy and data-protection teams on GDPR and other applicable requirements. - Help protect personal and biometric data through appropriate security controls. - Contribute to incident readiness, investigation, response, and post-incident improvements. - Mentor security engineers and, as the team grows, build and manage the security team. - Set technical direction while remaining hands-on with security architecture and engineering. Job Details Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Interview Process - Introductory Discussion - Security Deep Dive & Practical Assessment - Security Deep Dive - Founder & Culture Alignment Important Note ClanX is a recruitment partner, helping AiPrise hire a Security Architect.