, India

Job Family Group:

Information Technology (IT)

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

April 24, 2026

Business Unit:

Projects and Technology:

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description: What’s the role

We are looking for a highly motivated Systems Engineer – Cloud Security who will be responsible for managing and executing control operations across enterprise cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and foundational platform services such as SQL IaaS Managed Services and Cloud Connectivity Platforms.

This role ensures operational excellence, risk governance, and platform security across the enterprise cloud ecosystem.

What you’ll be doing Control Operations & Governance

• Take end-to-end ownership of the control operations scope, including timely execution of controls, evidence collection, archival, and reporting.
• Document and track risk observations, drive remediation plans, and ensure closure within required timelines.
• Ensure all cloud platform controls are well understood, implemented correctly, and delivered on time.
• Engineer governance guardrails and policy-as-code controls to enforce continuous compliance, security baselines, and platform standards across cloud environments.

Risk Assessment & Compliance

• Support and lead risk assessments related to enterprise cloud services by engaging with relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure risks are assessed, recorded, mitigated, and monitored appropriately.
• Maintain an audit-ready environment at all times, supporting periodic internal and external audits.
• Respond promptly to audit queries and ensure zero control non-compliance.

Vulnerability Management

• Manage vulnerability tracking and remediation for all enterprise cloud service platforms.
• Notify stakeholders of identified vulnerabilities, follow up on remediation actions, and ensure closure within SLA.
• Monitor vulnerability trends, report and drive continuous reduction of security exposure.

Automation, Optimization & Control Rationalization

• Drive and execute engineering activities to automate, optimize, and rationalize controls, ensuring robust and scalable solutions are designed and implemented
• Contribute to enhancement of control-related processes and governance.
• Ensure platform changes meet reliability, security, and compliance requirements before rollout.

Security Configuration & Platform Hardening

• Support implementation of cloud security technical configurations to ensure platforms remain secure, compliant, and reliable.
• Partner with internal teams, platform DevOps and stakeholders to maintain consistent security baselines.
• Support implementation and maintain comprehensive observability across cloud platforms by engineering solutions to monitor, logging, metrics, and alerting to ensure reliability and actionable insights

What you bring

• Bachelor’s in Technology or related degree with minimum 5 years’ hands-on experience with of Azure and AWS cloud platforms
• Understanding of cloud native security services (e.g., Azure Defender, Azure Policy, AWS Security Hub, AWS IAM, Guard Duty, etc.).
• Working knowledge of cloud compliance frameworks and control design and operations.
• Experience in risk assessment, control execution, evidence management, and audit readiness.
• Experience with vulnerability management processes and tools.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Good to Have:

• Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) or AWS Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) certifications.
• Exposure to enterprise cloud governance, automation tooling, or security engineering practices.
• CRISC – Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control
• CISM – Certified Information Security Manager

Personal Attributes

• Detail-oriented with a strong sense of ownership.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Proactive in identifying risks and driving timely remediation.

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

• Achieve your balance in a value-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.

• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are among the best in the world.

• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

• Join an organization to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.

• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programs.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

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Shell in India

Shell is a diversified energy company in India with 13,000 employees, and presence in Integrated Gas, Downstream, Power, Renewable and Upstream. Additionally, we have deep capabilities in R&D, digitalization, and business operations.

Our global strategy, Powering Progress, is designed to generate value for our shareholders, customers, and the wider society, and focuses on creating more value with less emissions. The strategy supports our purpose of providing more and cleaner energy solutions, with the aim of profitably transforming Shell into a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050. As India moves towards its target of net-zero emissions by 2070, Shell India aims to play a leading role in securing vital energy for today, while investing in, and helping to build, the energy system of the future through strategic investments in the country.

Our Lubricants business serves over 50,000 consumers through a strong network of over 200 distributors, and operates an end-to-end value chain that spans conceptualization, development, and production at a world-class blending plant at Taloja. Through our 350-plus retail stations, we offer an integrated mobility experience including fuels, cafes, and convenience stores, with a prominent network of EV recharging facilities.

Shell owns and operates an LNG re-gasification terminal at Hazira, Surat, with a capacity of 5 MTPA and an LNG truck-loading unit that plays a crucial role in helping meet India’s growing demand for gas across sectors. In 2022, Shell acquired Spring Energy in a $1.55 billion deal to build an integrated energy transition business in the country. Spring is a leading renewable energy company in India which develops and manages solar, wind, and hybrid power generation facilities and infrastructure.

Our three capability centers across Bangalore and Chennai serve as a technology and innovation powerhouse for Shell globally, working as a delivery engine for core technical, digital, and finance processes: pioneering digital innovation and cutting-edge technologies across the energy sector. We also have strong academic partnerships and collaborations with leading universities and technology institutes to accelerate decarbonization efforts within the energy sector.

We are committed to positively contributing to the communities in which we operate through programs on STEM Education, Skilling, and Livelihood across India. We nurture and invest in startups developing initiatives focused on accelerating energy innovation through programs such as Shell E4 and Shell Eco-marathon. We also have strategic investments in new energy companies such as Husk Power, d.light, Orb Energy, and Cleantech Solar.

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