Senior HR Recruiter

• Senior HR Recruiter
• Company: Practical DevSecOps
• Job Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Experience Required: 5 - 8 years
• Role overview

The Senior HR Recruiter owns full-cycle hiring across engineering, security, design and marketing roles in four countries. You will run searches from intake to joining, raise the bar on candidate quality, and help build a hiring process that scales.

• This is a hands-on role with real ownership. You will work directly with hiring managers and leadership, and mentor junior recruiters as the team grows.
• Key responsibilities
• Full-cycle recruitment
• Run end-to-end hiring for technical and non-technical roles: intake, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer and onboarding handoff.
• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, scorecards and interview plans.
• Manage open requisitions at a time across India, Indonesia, Singapore and the UAE.
• Sourcing and talent pipelines
• Source passive candidates via LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, security communities and referrals.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for recurring roles such as DevSecOps engineers, security instructors and fullstack developers.
• Write compelling job descriptions and outreach messages that reflect our brand.
• Assessment and selection
• Conduct structured screening interviews against defined competencies.
• Use standardized scorecards and screening question sets to keep evaluation fair and consistent.
• Give hiring managers clear, evidence-based candidate summaries and recommendations.
• Offers and closing
• Benchmark compensation by market and prepare offer letters and salary structures.
• Negotiate offers and manage candidates through acceptance and joining.
• Ensure offers comply with local employment norms in each country.
• Process, data and reporting
• Keep the ATS accurate and up to date.
• Track and report hiring metrics: time-to-hire, source quality, offer acceptance and pipeline health.
• Improve hiring processes, templates and SOPs as the company scales.
• Employer brand and candidate experience
• Deliver a timely, respectful candidate experience at every stage.
• Mentor junior recruiters and coordinators.
• Employee data and support
• Maintain accurate, confidential employee records, including personal details, contracts, joining documents and exits, in the HRMS or employee database.
• Act as the first point of contact for employee queries on HR policies, documentation, leave and onboarding.
• Coordinate with payroll, finance and managers to keep employee information current across India, Indonesia, Singapore and the UAE.
• Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business Administration, Psychology or a related field; an MBA in HR is a plus.
• 5-8 years of full-cycle recruitment experience, including at least 2 years hiring for tech, SaaS or cybersecurity roles.
• Proven record of closing hard-to-fill technical roles such as security engineers, DevOps or developers.
• Strong sourcing skills: LinkedIn Recruiter and passive candidate outreach.
• Working knowledge of at least one ATS and comfort with spreadsheets and hiring data.
• Experience preparing offer letters and negotiating compensation.
• Excellent written and spoken English; clear, confident communication with candidates and leaders.
• Able to manage many requisitions at once while keeping quality and pace high.
• Nice to have
• Has hired for security roles such as penetration testers, AppSec engineers or security trainers, and understands certifications like OSCP, CISSP and CEH.
• Has built a recruitment function or hiring process from scratch at a startup or scale-up.
• Has run cross-border hiring, including contractor and employer-of-record setups.
• Has used recruitment analytics or dashboards to improve hiring decisions.
• What we offer
• Competitive salary, benchmarked to market and experience.
• Ownership of hiring across four countries and a direct line to leadership.
• Remote or hybrid work with flexible hours.
• A fast-growing global team where your work is visible from day one.
• How to apply

Send your resume and a short note on a hard-to-fill role you closed and how you did it. Shortlisted candidates move through a screening call, a hiring manager interview, a practical sourcing exercise and a final round with leadership.

PDSO is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of every background. .