AVP- API Security

Job Title:

AVP- API Security

Work Type:

Permanent

Location:

Embassy Park - Bengaluru

It’s more than a career at NAB. It’s about more meaningful work, more global opportunities and more innovation beyond boundaries .

Your job is just one part of your life. When you bring your ideas, energy, and hunger for growth, you’ll be recognised and rewarded for your contribution in return. You’ll have our support to excel for our customers, deliver positive change for our communities and grow your career.

NAB has established NAB Innovation Centre India as a centre for operations and technology excellence to support NAB deliver faster, better, and more personalized experience to customers and colleagues.

At NAB India, we’re ramping-up and growing at a very fast pace. Our passionate leaders recruit and develop high performing people, empowering them to deliver exceptional outcomes to make a positive difference in the lives of our customers and our communities.

Role: We build the API Security platform that thousands of engineers across NAB use to keep their APIs safe. We build platforms, not features — you will not run clusters or own enterprise security policy; you will build the platform other teams use to enforce it. We are moving security from reactive to predictive: every code change evaluated for risk before it lands, findings arriving as automated pull requests with confidence-scored fixes, and executive risk reported as cost — not compliance jargon.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the API Security platform — control catalogue, policy engine (detect and enforce), portfolio scoreboard, and assisted remediator.

• Ship secure-by-default abstractions and paved-road patterns that make the secure path the easiest path.

• Automate the platform's operational lifecycle — CI/CD, credential and certificate rotation, health monitoring, and policy testing.

• Build the vulnerability remediation platform — findings → auto-generated PRs with rule-based fix templates.

• Write and manage runtime security policy as code (service mesh, gateway, detection rules).

• Instrument observability and alerting for engineering, security, and executive stakeholders.

• Own what you release — investigate detections after they ship, resolve false positives and policy defects, and drive production fixes.

• Collaborate with global engineering teams, platform teams, and security vendors.

Required Skills

• 6-12 years in API development, platform engineering, or backend engineering (Python, Go, or Java).

• Strong grounding in API security — OWASP API Top 10, OAuth 2.0 / OIDC / JWT, mTLS, BOLA, IDOR, injection.

• Kubernetes, containers, modern CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent).

• Policy as code — declarative, version-controlled runtime security policy.

• Cloud (AWS preferred) and observability platforms (logs, metrics, traces, alerting).

• Strong learning mindset and a product mindset toward internal users — clean APIs, honest errors, real documentation.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS / SE / IS or equivalent experience. Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, CKA, OSCP, or CISSP are advantageous.

A diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone:

Our goal is to foster a culture that fills us with pride, rooted in trust and respect. NAB is committed to creating a positive and supportive environment where everyone is encouraged to embrace their true, authentic selves. A diverse and inclusive workplace where our differences are celebrated, and our contributions are valued. It’s a huge part of what makes NAB such a special place to be.

More focus on you:

We’re committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and job sharing and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, grow and pursue exciting career opportunities

Join NAB India:

This is your chance to join NAB India and along with your experience and expertise to help shape an innovation driven organisation that focuses on making a positive impact in the lives of its customers, colleagues and communities

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