Chief Information Security Officer – CISO
Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania
Full Time
5 hours ago
$7,500 EUR
No H1B
Key skills
CloudCyber SecurityDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformGCPGoogle CloudIAMCI/CDMentoring
About this role
Role Overview
- Own Hostinger’s security roadmap
- Align security investment with business growth and infrastructure evolution
- Define security capability maturity targets
- Define enterprise security architecture principles
- Review major infrastructure and product design decisions
- Ensure coherent identity, cloud, and platform security models
- Prevent fragmented or short-term tooling decisions
- Define and maintain risk appetite framework
- Approve high-risk vendor and exception decisions
- Present cyber risk posture at executive and board level
- Act as executive security authority during high-severity incidents
- Translate technical exposure into business impact
- Support executive decision-making
- Present security posture during business reviews
- Align risk reporting with business objectives
- Mentor senior security leaders
- Ensure clear separation between strategy and operational execution
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with strong hands-on background earlier in your career
- Proven expertise in cloud-native platforms (GCP preferred), IAM, infrastructure security, CI/CD pipelines, APIs, and internet-facing services, and large-scale distributed systems
- Strong understanding of modern detection and response ecosystems (SIEM, EDR, XDR, CDR, logging, telemetry)
- Experience reviewing or designing enterprise-level security architectures
- Ability to understand complex infrastructure end-to-end
- Experience building or guiding scalable security control models
- Strong grasp of attacker behavior, threat modeling, and risk-based prioritization
- Experience leading security teams or senior security professionals
- Comfortable operating at executive and board level
- Proven ability to align security direction with business growth
- Strong knowledge of ISO 27001 and regulatory frameworks (e.g., NIS2)
- Experience overseeing vendor risk and risk acceptance processes
- Ability to maintain strong compliance posture without creating unnecessary bureaucracy
- Ability to translate technical risk into clear business language
- Confident executive presence
- Strong decision-making skills in high-impact situations
- Advanced English (spoken & written)
Tech Stack
- Cloud
- Cyber Security
- Distributed Systems
- Google Cloud Platform
Benefits
- 🚀 360 Growth: We provide limitless learning opportunities: access to platforms like Reforge and Scribd, global conferences, physical and digital libraries, feedback culture, and mentoring through TesoXchange. Advance your career with internal mobility and grow with a team eager to share knowledge and support your success
- 🎯 Freedom & responsibility: Work on your terms: from modern offices in Kaunas and Vilnius, the comfort of home, or anywhere in the world. Enjoy flexibility in managing your schedule and bring your ideas to life in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- 💪Wellness simplified: Your health comes first with insurance from Day 1, gym memberships, recharge leave, and regular health checks. Join sports, arts, and hobby clubs or simply enjoy the balance of a lifestyle that prioritizes wellness
- 🎉 Work hard
- party hard: Recognize hard work with company events like Summerfest & Winterfest, Town Hall, Meet the Client initiatives, team-buildings, and workations. Enjoy access to the Žalgiris Arena VIP Lounge and celebrate life’s big moments with milestone gifts for weddings, new parenthood, and graduations