Role snapshot
Accops is hiring a hands-on Head of Product Security to own the security of every product we ship from source code to customer incident response.
Location: India (remote-friendly; Bengaluru / Pune / Delhi NCR preferred)
Experience: 10+ years total, including 5+ years in hands-on security research / pen testing
Background: Former software engineer turned security researcher
Reports to CEO / CTO
Team
Leads the product security testing team
About Accops and the role
Accops builds secure remote access and Zero Trust products, including the HySecure ZTNA line, used by enterprises, banks and government organisations. Our customers trust us to sit at the edge of their networks, so the security of our own code is the product.
You will be the single owner of product security: you decide what gets tested, find the hard bugs before attackers do, lead the response when something goes wrong, and speak for Accops to customers when they ask how secure we are.
What you'll own
Lead the security testing team
- Build,
mentor and manage the product security / pen testing team; set hiring bar, career paths and quality standards.
- Own the security testing plan for every release across gateway, client (Windows, macOS, Linux, mobile), web portals and cloud services.
- Define severity ratings, SLAs for fixes, and release sign-off criteria.
Secure code review and white-box testing
- Review source code personally (C/C++, .Net, Go, Python, JavaScript and others) for high-risk areas: authentication, crypto, VPN/tunnel handling, session management, privilege boundaries.
- Run white-box pen tests with full code and design access; write exploits and proof-of-concepts to prove impact.
- Lead threat modelling and design reviews for current features and architecture changes.
- Embed SAST, DAST, SCA, fuzzing and secrets scanning into CI/CD, and tune them so engineers trust the results.
Incident response and forensics
- Lead technical investigation of security incidents involvi
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