Infrastructure Lead (CISSP Certified)

Experience

8 to 12+ years

Location: Kondapur, Hyderabad

Role Summary

CISSP certification

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-DSSdepending 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)

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• 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.