AVP - DevSecOps Lead Security Engineer at EXL Talent Acquisition Team
, , India -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

03 Oct, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

05 Jul, 26

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

DevSecOps, AI Security, Cloud Security, Application Security, CI/CD Pipelines, Threat Modeling, Vulnerability Management, MLSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, Secrets Management, SAST, DAST, SCA, API Security, Container Scanning, Governance Risk & Compliance

Industry

Business Consulting and Services

Description
Strategy & Leadership * Define and own the DevSecOps and AI Security strategy, roadmap, and operating model aligned to business and regulatory needs. * Act as a senior advisor to engineering, platform, AI, and product leaders on secure architecture and risk trade-offs. * Build and scale high-performing DevSecOps and AppSec teams; mentor other team members. * Represent security in executive forums, client discussions, audits, and risk reviews. DevSecOps & Platform Security * Lead security integration across CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub/GitHub Actions, and similar tooling. * Establish enterprise standards for:  * Secure build pipelines * Secrets management * IaC security (Terraform / CloudFormation) * Dependency and supply-chain security * Drive adoption of automated security controls: SAST, DAST, SCA, API security, container scanning. Application Security * Oversee application security programs including threat modeling, secure design reviews, and vulnerability management. * Monitor and improve the daily operations and BAU activities.  AI / GenAI Security * Establish guardrails for AI/GenAI solutions, including LLM-based apps, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows. * Assess and mitigate risks such as prompt injection, data leakage, insecure integrations, model abuse, and third-party AI risk. * Embed AI security controls into DevSecOps/MLOps pipelines (MLSecOps). Governance, Risk & Compliance * Translate regulatory and client security requirements into practical engineering controls. * Own security metrics, risk reporting, control evidence, and audit readiness. Ensure alignment with frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, OWASP (including LLM Top 10), and emerging AI standards.
Responsibilities
Define and lead the DevSecOps and AI Security strategy, overseeing secure architecture and risk trade-offs across the enterprise. Lead the integration of security controls into CI/CD pipelines and establish guardrails for GenAI and LLM-based applications.
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