Head of Security

Location:
Bangalore (Hybrid)

As our Head of Security, you'll define and lead Arcana's overall security strategy across infrastructure, applications, cloud, and enterprise systems. You'll build and scale the security function, establish security-by-design principles across engineering, and ensure our platform remains resilient as we grow. While your primary focus will be on securing our GCP infrastructure and production environments, you'll partner closely with Engineering, Product, IT, and Leadership to balance security, compliance, and engineering velocity.

Responsibilities:
- Own Arcana's end-to-end security strategy across cloud, infrastructure, applications, corporate systems, and data.
- Build and lead the company's security roadmap while establishing a strong security culture across engineering and the organization.
- Drive enterprise security governance and compliance, including ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, and customer security requirements.
- Define and enforce security policies, standards, and controls across cloud infrastructure, applications, endpoints,



and corporate environments.
- Lead cloud security initiatives across GCP, Kubernetes, networking, IAM, KMS, VPC Service Controls, Cloud Logging/Audit, and WAF.
- Build security guardrails using Infrastructure-as-Code, policy-as-code, and continuous compliance integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
- Oversee infrastructure hardening, vulnerability management, threat detection, incident response, and disaster recovery readiness.
- Establish security checkpoints and threat modeling processes for all current products, services, and architectural changes.
- Lead application security initiatives, including secure SDLC, code security, secrets management, software supply chain security, and penetration testing.
- Build and manage security monitoring, SIEM, detection engineering, incident response playbooks, and post-incident reviews.
- Partner with executive leadership to communicate security risks, investme

📌 Head of Security (Bengaluru)
🏢 Arcana
📍 Bengaluru