Infrastructure Lead (CISSP Certified)

0 - 4 years

25 - 75 Lacs

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Role: Infrastructure Lead (CISSP Certified)
Experience:8 to 12+ years (with strong infra + security ownership)
Location: Kondapur, Hyderabad

Role Summary:
We are seeking an Infrastructure Lead with CISSP certification to own and evolve our infrastructure strategy across cloud/on-prem environments, ensuring high availability, performance, scalability, and security. You will lead infrastructure operations, define security-aligned architecture, drive compliance readiness, and mentor a team across systems, network, cloud, and DevOps.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead end-to-end infrastructure operations: compute, storage, network, virtualization, backups, DR, and monitoring.
  • Define and implement infrastructure architecture aligned with security best practices and CISSP domains.
  • Own availability, incident response, problem management, and continuous improvement (RCA, postmortems, runbooks).
  • Drive security governance: IAM, MFA, key management, patching, vulnerability remediation, hardening baselines.
  • Collaborate with AppSec/SecOps to implement controls for risk management, threat modeling, logging, SIEM, and security monitoring.
  • Manage cloud infrastructure (Azure/AWS/GCP) including networking (VNET/VPC), load balancers, firewalls, WAF, VPN, private endpoints.
  • Build/maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/ARM/Bicep/CloudFormation) and CI/CD for infra deployments.
  • Ensure backup & disaster recovery, business continuity planning, and periodic DR drills.
  • Support audits and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS—depending on org needs).
  • Vendor management: tools, MSPs, ISPs, licensing, budgeting, capacity planning.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow the infra team; set goals, hiring, performance reviews.

Required Skills & Qualifications

  • CISSP certification (mandatory).
  • 8+ years in infrastructure engineering with 2+ years in a lead/ownership role.
  • Strong hands-on expertise in:
  • Linux/Windows administration, virtualization, storage systems
  • Networking fundamentals: DNS, DHCP, routing, switching, TCP/IP
  • Security controls: IAM, encryption, PKI, secrets management, endpoint security
  • Cloud platform expertise: Azure/AWS/GCP (at least one deep).
  • Monitoring & logging tools: Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, Splunk (any).
  • Strong understanding of:
  • Secure architecture & design
  • Incident management and risk assessment
  • Vulnerability management and patching cycles

Preferred Qualifications

  • Cloud security certifications: CCSP, Azure Security Engineer, AWS Security Specialty.
  • Experience with Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE), container security, service mesh.
  • Experience implementing Zero Trust, SOC2/ISO controls, and security automation.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹2,500,000.00 - ₹7,500,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Paid sick time
  • Paid time off
  • Provident Fund

Education:

  • Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

  • Infrastructure Lead : 8 years (Required)
  • Zero Trust: 4 years (Required)

License/Certification:

  • CCSP (Required)

Location:

  • Hyderabad, Telangana (500050) (Required)

Work Location: In person

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