Offer summary

Qualifications:

Proven experience in technology leadership roles, particularly in cloud infrastructure and DevOps., Strong understanding of SLO/SLA frameworks and incident management processes., Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform and Ansible, as well as CI/CD pipelines., Familiarity with compliance standards like SOC2, FedRamp, and PCI DSS..

Key responsibilities:

Own and manage the global SLO/SLA framework and incident-command program.

Define and implement a one-year infrastructure roadmap and enforce SLOs across the engineering organization.

Hire, coach, and develop engineering managers and individual contributors, establishing career paths for teams.

Oversee infrastructure spending and guide decisions on technology stack and compliance with security standards.

Job 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 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.