Head Information Security

12 - 15 years

55 - 70 Lacs

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Hybrid

Job Type

Full Time

Job Description

Role Overview

  • Role:

    Head of Information Security)
  • Experience:

    1215 years
  • Location:

    Bangalore (Onsite / Hybrid)
  • Reporting to:

    CEO
  • Company:

    Metafore.ai (formerly CtrlAgent)

About Metafore.ai

Metafore.ai is an early-stage Agentic AI startup building the future of intelligent automation. The platform enables enterprises to deploy AI agents that can reason, execute complex workflows, and operate safely in real-world environments.

Security, trust, and compliance are core to the product, not an afterthought—making this role central to the company’s long-term success.

What You Will Own

own security end-to-end

Security Strategy & Leadership

  • Define and execute the information security strategy and roadmap
  • Act as the single-point owner for security across product, cloud, and data
  • Partner closely with the CEO, CTO, and engineering teams to balance speed and risk

Hands-on Architecture & Engineering

  • Design and implement cloud-native security architecture (AWS / GCP / Azure)
  • Secure Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD pipelines, secrets, IAM, and networking
  • Lead threat modeling, architecture reviews, and security design for new features
  • Personally review code, APIs, IaC, and infrastructure for security risks

DevSecOps & Automation

  • Embed security into engineering workflows and CI/CD pipelines
  • Build and automate security tooling (scripts, scanners, monitoring)
  • Enforce least-privilege, zero-trust, and secure-by-design principles

Vulnerability, Incident & Risk Management

  • Own vulnerability management lifecycle and remediation
  • Lead security incident response, investigations, and post-mortems
  • Set up logging, monitoring, alerting, and security observability

Compliance, Trust & Customer Assurance

  • Lead compliance programs end-to-end (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, etc.)
  • Build security policies, standards, and internal documentation
  • Support customer security reviews, audits, and enterprise questionnaires

What We’re Looking For

Must Have

  • 12–15 years

    in Information Security / Security Engineering roles
  • Proven experience building

    security programs from scratch

  • Deep hands-on expertise in:
    • Cloud security (AWS / GCP / Azure)
    • Networking, Linux, distributed systems
    • OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK
    • CI/CD and DevSecOps tooling
  • Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, etc.)
  • Ability to operate independently with

    high ownership and accountability

Good to Have

  • Startup / early-stage company experience
  • Kubernetes and container security expertise
  • Led SOC 2 / ISO 27001 implementations end-to-end
  • Security certifications (CISSP, CISM, AWS Security, etc.)

Why This Role Is Unique

  • Reports

    directly to the CEO

  • Opportunity to

    shape security foundations at an AI startup

  • True authority—not just governance
  • High visibility, high trust, high impact
  • Build security as a

    product enabler

    , not a blocker

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