Role : Lead - Infrastructure Security & Release Operations.

Position : Lead - Infrastructure Security & Release Operations.

Experience : 8+ Years.

Location : Coimbatore / Hybrid (Remote option available).

Joining : Immediate or within 30 days preferred.

Core Focus : Production Release Management, Change Control, Security Operations, SOC 2 Compliance, Audit Evidence, Identity & Access Management.

Tools & Platforms : Octopus Deploy, TeamCity, AWS (IAM, Security Groups, CloudTrail), Status Page, Endpoint Security Tools, GRC Platforms (Vanta, Drata, or similar).

About The Role :

We are looking for a senior, execution-focused professional to own production release management, change control, and day-to-day security and compliance operations.

This role focuses on ensuring production changes are deployed safely, maintaining accurate SOC 2 audit evidence, managing security operations, and enforcing disciplined access controls.

The ideal candidate will bring hands-on experience managing production deployment pipelines, coordinating change approvals, supporting external audits, and maintaining security and compliance processes in a production environment.

This is a hands-on execution role.

Strategic roadmaps, architecture review boards, and cross-company leadership responsibilities remain with the existing leadership team and are outside the scope of this position.

Key Responsibilities :

- Own production release and deployment pipelines using Octopus Deploy and TeamCity.

- Implement and maintain zero-downtime deployment practices and rollback procedures.

- Troubleshoot failed or stuck deployments and coordinate timely resolution.

- Approve production changes, hotfixes, and feature toggle changes.

- Coordinate maintenance windows and communicate planned changes to customers through the status page.

- Own SOC 2 change management processes and maintain complete, audit-ready evidence.

- Work directly with external auditors throughout SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, or equivalent audit cycles.

- Track vulnerability remediation, security patches, and corrective actions.

- Manage endpoint security tooling and triage externally reported vulnerabilities.

- Support customer security questionnaires and security-related sections of RFPs.

- Administer identity and access management processes, including access reviews and MFA enforcement.

- Manage privileged access controls and production access permissions.

- Grant, review, and revoke access to databases, VPNs, and deployment tools.

- Maintain appropriate access records and supporting compliance evidence.

- Manage infrastructure and access-related tickets requiring change approval or production access.

- Ensure production changes follow established approval and documentation procedures.

- Provide occasional on-call and after-hours support when required for production operations.

- Maintain clear documentation of releases, approvals, incidents, and security activities.

Must-Have Requirements :

- 8+ years of overall infrastructure or release engineering experience.

- 5+ years of direct ownership of production release and deployment pipelines, including rollback procedures.

- 5+ years of ownership of SOC 2 or equivalent compliance change management and audit evidence processes.

- 5+ years of hands-on security operations experience.

- Practical experience administering IAM, including access reviews and privileged access controls.

- Experience supporting customer-facing security questionnaires and RFP security sections.

- Direct experience working with external auditors through at least one complete audit cycle.

What We Offer :

- Flexible work environment with Coimbatore office, hybrid, and remote options.

- Paid holidays and flexible time off.

- Medical insurance coverage of up to 4 lakh per person for self and family.

- Opportunities to support production infrastructure and security operations for global clients.

- A culture that values clarity, integrity, accountability, and continuous growth.