VP of Technology / Head of Cloud

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:

1. Discover. See every asset across your entire attack surface—from cloud environments to every API endpoint with auto-discovery capabilities.

2. 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.

3. Respond. Streamline incident response with complete visibility, smart triggers, and active threat verification.

4. 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 Cloud reports 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.

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