Principal Security Engineer /n Location: Bangalore (Hybrid) /n As our Principal Security Engineer, you'll own and elevate Arcana's overall security posture - cloud, on-prem, and everything in between. You'll design and enforce policies, automate controls, and harden infrastructure end-to-end. While your primary focus will be on our GCP resources, you'll also partner with teams across networking, applications, and compliance to ensure we're secure by design and resistant to drift. /n Responsibilities: /n /n
Enterprise Security Architecture - Governance and Compliance, including driving adherence to ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, and enforcing CIS benchmarks on all infrastructure.

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Policy, Automation, and Guardrails - own the end-to-end security lifecycle by defining policy-as-code, embedding continuous compliance checks into CI/CD, and building automated, drift-resistant guardrails across cloud, containers, and VMs.

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Infrastructure Hardening and Drift Detection - implement automated drift alerts and self-healing playbooks for VPCs, firewall rules, Kubernetes clusters, and endpoints.

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Monitoring, Logging, and Incident Response - configure Cloud Audit Logs, SIEM exports, and custom alerts for critical security events; lead root-cause investigations, build detection logic,



and develop runbooks for cloud-wide incidents.

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Define security checkpoints for current products and features

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8+ years driving security and compliance in energetic, regulated environments- securing cloud-native platforms and hybrid infrastructures, with deep familiarity in fintech and portfolio-management standards, and best practices for supporting distributed, remote teams.

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Deep expertise with GCP security (IAM, KMS, VPC Service Controls, Cloud Logging/Audit, WAF, SecOps) and Kubernetes application hardening.

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Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills (Terraform or equivalent) and GitOps experience (ArgoCD, Flux).

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Proficiency in Appsec and Secops tools.

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Proficiency in Python scripting and policy-as-code frameworks (OPA, Gatekeeper).

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Excellent communicator - able to translate technical findings into clear policies and remediation plans.

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Familiarity with multi-cloud security controls.

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Security certifications (GCP Qualified Security Engineer, CISSP, CKA/CKS).

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Experience with service mesh (Istio/Anthos) or zero-trust architectures.

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📌 Principal Security Engineer Bengaluru
🏢 Arcana
📍 Bengaluru