Job Description

Digantara is a leading

Space Surveillance and Intelligence

company focused on ensuring orbital safety and sustainability. With expertise in space-based detection, tracking, identification, and monitoring, Digantara provides comprehensive domain awareness across all regimes, enabling end-users to gain actionable intelligence on a single platform. At the core of its infrastructure lies a sophisticated integration of hardware and software capabilities aligned with the key principles of situational awareness: perception(data collection), comprehension(data processing), and prediction (analytics). This holistic approach empowers Digantara to monitor all Resident Space Objects(RSOs) in orbit, fostering comprehensive domain awareness.

Why Us?

Be part of a collaborative and innovative environment where your ideas and skills make a real difference to the entire space realm. Push the boundaries with hands-on experience, greater responsibilities, and rapid career advancement. Competitive incentives, galvanizing workspace, blazing team--pretty much everything you have heard about a startup.

Ideal Candidate:

We are looking for a Security and Compliance Expert who will take full ownership of our organizational security infrastructure, ensuring we maintain the highest standards of information security, compliance, and risk management. This is a critical, cross-functional role supporting Digantara's work with high-assurance sectors such as aerospace and defense.

Responsibilities:

Lead and coordinate internal and external audits for frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, SOC 2 Type II, etc., including remediation and continual improvement efforts. . Prepare documentation and collaborate with auditors, legal, and technical teams to maintain certifications and ensure compliance across jurisdictions on an ongoing basis. Assess and onboard critical third-party vendors through structured third-party risk assessments. Work closely with the Legal Team to ensure client contractual obligations and legal requirements (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) on information security are consistently met. Design, implement, and maintain the organization's Information Security Management System (ISMS) and Privacy Information Management System (PIMS) in alignment with industry standards. Conduct periodic risk assessments, develop risk treatment plans, and work closely with engineering and leadership teams to address and ensure timely mitigation. Assess, deploy, and manage compliance frameworks tailored for high-assurance environments, including space and defense-related standards (such as AS9100). Lead cross-functional certification projects, including initiatives for ISMS, GRC platform rollouts, and industry-specific attestations. Develop, review, improve, and maintain information security and privacy policies, processes, procedures, controls, and standards based on changes in the business environment, emerging threats, and applicable legal and regulatory requirements. Coordinate and execute Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery tests. Set guidelines and review adherence to secure development practices, including secure coding standards. Oversee third-party penetration tests across cloud, on-prem, and embedded systems. Track remediation efforts and validate fixes for vulnerabilities that could affect aerospace operations or data integrity. Complete customer security and privacy assessments to support international partnerships and defense customers. Conduct vendor risk assessments and collaborate with procurement and legal to ensure third-party compliance. Act as the point of contact for compliance-related incidents, coordinate investigations, and ensure proper documentation and corrective action. Work closely with cross-functional teams to embed security-by-design principles into every layer of the organization, including people, processes, and technology. Conduct employee awareness and training programs for security and privacy.

Qualifications:

Strong background in Information Security, Compliance Management, Privacy, Computer Science, Aerospace Systems, or a related field. Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in information security compliance, risk management, or IT audit, preferably in a regulated or high-assurance industry (e.g., aerospace, defense, or government). Proven experience managing and implementing compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, etc. Ability to handle multiple compliance initiatives across globally distributed teams and mission-critical systems

Preferred Qualities:

Professional certifications such as CISA, CISSP, CISM, or ISO 27001 Lead Auditor are strongly preferred. Knowledge of space sector cybersecurity standards or compliance regulations (e.g., ITAR, DFARS, BIS export controls) is a plus. Experience working with or auditing Enterprise SaaS and space-industry systems is highly desirable.

General Requirements:

Strong analytical, investigative, and communication skills Attention to technical and regulatory detail. Ability to take direction and work independently. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment. Flexibility to adapt to changing requirements and priorities. Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.

Job Location:

Hebbal, Bengaluru