As an Associate Director, IT Security, you will provide leadership and guidance to managers, supervisors, and senior professionals. You will be accountable for the performance and results of multiple related departments or areas, overseeing the implementation of advanced security measures and critical defense strategies across the organization — with a strategic focus on Non-Human Identity (NHI) governance and emerging AI agent identity risk.
Key Responsibilities
*Leadership & Governance*
- Provide leadership and direction to multiple IT security departments.
- Oversee development and implementation of long-term security strategies.
- Coordinate large-scale security responses and complex investigations.
- Develop and enforce governance frameworks for IT security across departments.
- Direct initiatives to identify and mitigate significant security risks.
- Facilitate cooperation and communication across IT and business departments.
- Lead enterprise-wide security training and awareness initiatives.
- Ensure strict adherence to regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Present security findings and recommendations to executive leadership.
- Manage budgets, resources, and security investments effectively.
*NHI Program Design and Delivery*
- Define and execute the NHI program roadmap across four phases: Foundation (discovery and inventory), Govern (controls and standards), Automate (lifecycle automation and CIEM integration), and AI Identity (agent governance).
- Build and maintain the NHI inventory register — a continuously updated record of all non-human identities across AD, Entra ID, AWS, Azure, GCP, and CI/CD platforms.
- Define the NHI risk classification model — tiering all NHIs by blast radius, sensitivity, and governance maturity.
- Produce monthly NHI program metrics — inventory coverage, orphan rate, vault onboarding %, secret age, and rotation compliance.
*CI/CD Pipeline and Container Identity*
- Own CI/CD pipeline identity go
📌 Associate Director, IT Security (India)
🏢 iKrux
📍 India
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