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About us: Build the future of banking.
Zeta is a next-generation banking technology company providing cloud-native, fully stackable processing and core banking platforms for issuers. With a focus on scalability, compliance, and innovation, Zeta empowers financial institutions to modernize their technology infrastructure and deliver secure, seamless digital banking experiences.
Our impact runs at real-world scale. Today, over 25 million cards are live on Zeta-powered platforms across 7 countries, supported by a passionate team of 1,700+ Zetanauts across India, the US, EMEA, and Asia. Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, Mastercard, and other reputed strategic investors, we reached a valuation of $2 billion in 2025.
Our focus is on establishing product lines that focus on key outcomes by addressing real customer pain points, modernizing legacy systems, and strengthening core fundamentals. As a result, our systems and platforms support a wide range of banking and payments capabilities, including:
1. Tachyon, our cloud-native banking stack built for population-scale systems
2. Cipher, our unified authentication platform for secure, high-volume banking environments
3. Digital Credit as a Service, enabling banks to launch credit lines on UPI
4. Elena, our intelligent and conversational AI platform for banking
5. Pixel, India’s first digital-native credit card, launched in partnership with HDFC Bank, for whom we also revamped their PayZapp mobile app: Winner of the Celent Model Bank Award for Payments Innovation 2024
6. Sparrow, the leading card experience for non-prime cardholders in the US
…and more across cards, payments, lending, and core banking.
We are an engineering-first organization that values ownership, bias for action, and long-term thinking. Together, we solve some of the hardest problems in banking tech. Our culture is built around trust, collaboration, and creating the conditions for you to drive impact proportionate to your potential. Reinforcing our commitment to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace, we have been consistently recognized as a Great Place to Work.
If you want to build cutting-edge banking tech that enables banks to serve millions reliably, securely, and at a population scale, Zeta is your playground.
If you would like to learn more about how we have grown and evolved over the years, watch our journey here. You can also explore our website and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, and X.
About the Role:
As a Cloud Security & DevSecOps Engineer II, you will play a key role in strengthening the security posture of our cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes/container platforms and software delivery ecosystem.
You will work closely with Cloud/Platform, SRE, DevOps, Engineering, Product Security and Risk & Compliance teams to identify and mitigate security risks, build scalable security controls, automate recurring security activities and drive security findings through remediation and closure.
The role covers Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), IAM & Access Governance, DevSecOps, Kubernetes Security, Infrastructure Security, Vulnerability Management, Security Monitoring, Security Automation and Compliance Engineering, while also contributing to broader Information Security initiatives across the organisation.
Responsibilities
- Perform continuous security posture assessments across AWS, Azure and GCP environments and identify cloud misconfigurations, insecure configurations and deviations from security baselines.
- Conduct IAM and SSO access reviews, covering users, roles, groups, service accounts/service principals, permissions, access keys and privileged access, and identify excessive or stale access.
- Identify and assess publicly exposed cloud resources, insecure network configurations and unnecessary external exposure across compute, storage, databases, load balancers and other cloud services.
- Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines, including SAST, SCA, secrets scanning, Infrastructure-as-Code scanning, container/image scanning, DAST and software supply-chain controls.
- Perform Infrastructure-as-Code security reviews and support secure implementation of Terraform and similar technologies.
- Perform Kubernetes and container security assessments, including cluster configurations, Kubernetes RBAC, workload security, image security, hardening and security posture management.
- Analyse vulnerabilities and security findings, validate risks and false positives, prioritise remediation and work with Engineering/SRE/DevOps teams to drive findings through closure.
- Develop security automation using Python, Bash, cloud APIs and CLIs for IAM reviews, asset inventories, security assessments, compliance checks, monitoring, reporting and evidence collection.
- Review cloud network and edge security controls including VPC/VNet, Security Groups/firewalls, load balancers, WAF, TLS/mTLS and public/private connectivity.
- Monitor and review CloudSEK alerts and findings, perform initial analysis and validation, and coordinate remediation or escalation with relevant stakeholders.
- Support CloudSEK block-rule activities, including review and validation of relevant indicators, domains and URLs, and coordinate appropriate blocking actions with responsible teams.
- Support investigation of cloud and security alerts, exposed credentials, suspicious access, provider security notifications and other security events.
- Participate in cloud architecture and design security reviews and provide practical security recommendations based on risk, secure-by-design and least-privilege principles.
- Support security and audit requirements aligned with frameworks such as CIS, NIST, PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and OWASP.
- Develop and maintain security standards, SOPs, hardening guidelines, assessment methodologies, technical documentation and operational runbooks.
- Continuously identify opportunities to automate preventive and detective security controls and improve overall Cloud Security and DevSecOps maturity.
- Participate in broader Information Security activities including vulnerability management, security assessments, incident investigations, security reviews, audit/compliance.
Skills
- Strong hands-on understanding of at least one major public cloud platform, preferably AWS, with working knowledge of Azure and/or GCP being an advantage.
- Good understanding of cloud security across IAM, compute, storage, networking, encryption, logging and monitoring.
- Knowledge of cloud security services such as AWS IAM/IAM Identity Center, Security Hub, AWS Config, CloudTrail, KMS and EKS, or equivalent services in Azure/GCP.
- Hands-on understanding of CI/CD and DevSecOps security, including SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning, IaC scanning and container/image security.
- Experience with CI/CD technologies such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Bitbucket Pipelines or equivalent platforms.
- Working knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code security.
- Good understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, Kubernetes RBAC, container security and cluster hardening.
- Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Bash or similar languages.
- Strong understanding of IAM, least privilege, MFA, privileged access, credential management and access governance.
- Understanding of CSPM, KSPM, CWPP and CNAPP concepts.
- Knowledge of cloud/network security concepts including VPC/VNet, Security Groups, firewalls, WAF, TLS/mTLS and private/public connectivity.
- Experience with security monitoring, alert triage and threat/exposure-management platforms such as CloudSEK or equivalent solutions.
- Exposure to security tooling such as Snyk or equivalent SAST/SCA, CSPM, container and infrastructure security solutions.
- Understanding of vulnerability management, risk-based remediation and security incident investigation.
- Knowledge of security standards and frameworks including CIS Benchmarks, NIST, PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and OWASP.
- Ability to independently analyse security findings, document security risks and provide clear and practical remediation recommendations to technical stakeholders.
Experience and Qualifications
- 3–6 years of relevant experience in Cloud Security, DevSecOps, Infrastructure Security, Platform Security or related security engineering roles.
- Strong hands-on technical experience in cloud security, infrastructure security, vulnerability management and security automation.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant industry experience.
- Relevant cloud/security certifications such as AWS Certified Security – Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS), Microsoft Azure Security Engineer, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer or equivalent are an added advantage.
Equal Opportunity
Zeta is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, and communities to apply and believe that a diverse workforce is key to our success
