Job description
Description
Short facts about us:
We are a global remote-first team of 100+ people on 4 continents and in 10+ countries.
We have been protecting our clients since 2016.
The company has raised over $10M in investments.
More than 200 customers around the world, including Fortune 500, Nasdaq, and high-growth startups choose Wallarm to protect their API and web applications.
The company passed Y Combinator, the most prestigious incubator in Silicon Valley, from which Dropbox, Stripe, Docker, etc. came out.
Our product:
Wallarm API security solutions provide proven performance to support innovative companies serving millions of users and billions of API requests per month. Hundreds of Security and DevOps teams globally use Wallarm daily to:
Discover. See every asset across your entire attack surface—from cloud environments to every API endpoint with auto-discovery capabilities.
Protect. A single suite that goes beyond OWASP Top 10 for full coverage for API specific threats, account takeover, malicious bots, L7 DDoS, and more.
Respond. Streamline incident response with complete visibility, smart triggers, and active threat verification.
Test. Automate security testing of your APIs and web assets. Prioritize remediation for every asset, in every environment.
The role:
VP of Technology / Head of Cloudreports to CTO and directly manages DevOps and SRE team and indirectly (matrix structure) all other DevOps engineers teams.
In this role you will:
Own global SLO/SLA framework; run the incident-command program and blameless post-mortems
Define a one-year infra roadmap on an annual basis
Enforce SLOs and SLAs across the whole engineering organization
Hire, coach and develop EMs and ICs; establish succession plans and career ladders for infrastructure and SRE teams
Design the global on-call rota and escalation paths; ensure 24 × 7 coverage and healthy toil budgets
Take responsibility for all infrastructure spendings that we have
Oversee our stack - Terraform/Ansible/IaC, GitLab CI pipelines, Prometheus-based observability, K8s/Docker, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Loki and internal tooling - and guide build-vs-buy decisions
Help us to build infrastructure compliant with multiple compliances - SOC2, FedRamp and PCI DSS
Embed Secure SDLC controls, automate cloud-native security and champion zero-trust principles.
Requirements
In this role you’ll need:
8 + years running large-scale, multi-cloud infrastructure with 3 + years as a people leader
Proven ownership of $1 M + annual cloud budgets and cost-optimization programs
Hands-on depth with Kubernetes, Docker and IaC (Terraform, Ansible)
Track record building on-call and incident-command programs for high-stress 24 × 7 services
Demonstrated success in achieving SOC 2 or FedRAMP compliance
Executive-level communication skills; able to translate technical risk for C-suite & customers
Fluent written and spoken English.
Nice to have:
Experience with high-growth SaaS companies or startup environments
Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines, Secure SDLC and cloud-native security
Familiarity with data infrastructure, security automation tools and experimentation platforms
Hands-on experience with cloud-native security, Secure SDLC and CI/CD pipelines
Experience with security automation tools, data infrastructure and experimentation platforms.
What we offer:
Ability to work on a product that makes the Internet safer
Completely remote work and flexible working hours
Competitive salary and bonuses
Paid days off
Medical insurance
Working equipment
Professional development and career growth
