Position: Lead Security Engineer
Company: Surprise
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Surprise.com is on a mission to help people make a positive impact on themselves, their teams, and their communities. Our flagship product, Surprise for Teams™, is the world’s first and only SuccessOS™. Surprise for Teams makes it fun and irresistible to perform better, which creates a positive, long-lasting impact on people and their organizations.
We are looking for an experienced and capable Head of Security to join our team in Kyiv (Gulliver) or Lviv (Magnus). This role offers tremendous opportunities to build a highly scalable, highly stable, easily maintainable back-end architecture; to push the boundaries of fault-tolerant programming; and to work with a broad range of public and proprietary APIs.

What will you be doing?

Leveraging scripting languages (e.g., Python) to automate the generation of benchmarks and best practices;
Integrating the above into our cloud security platform;
Installing, configuring, and troubleshooting application stacks and database applications.;
Working directly with:
IDS/IPS and other security tools;
AWS IAM Access management, Auditing, Notifications/Alerts;
Terraform/Ansible configuration management, Security as a Code;
Hashicorp stack (HSS) (CloudFormation or other);
AWS Security Hub/GuardDuty/Cloudtrail.

What we are looking for?

Upper Intermediate English or higher (B2+);
2+ years of experience as a team lead;
Deep knowledge of Information Security;
Experience as a SecOps Engineer;
Strong knowledge of AWS;
An automation mindset with scripting ability in Python or other languages;
Familiarity with one or more virtualization technologies (VSphere or HyperV is a big plus);
Experience deploying and configuring server operating systems, application stacks, databases, and other systems.

About us

At Surprise.com, we’re committed to hiring builders who are inspired by our team’s guiding principle: to derive a tremendous sense of purpose from the inner quest for excellence itself, being driven from within to make anything we touch be the best it can be. We take pride in developing deep user understanding, obsess about the details, and go the extra mile to show our users we love them. We are first and foremost customer driven – engineering, product and design collaborate as equals to create a phenomenal end user experience. We’re also home for numerous internal teams building internally facing tools for customer service, finance, and others, to keep the operation afloat.

Benefits

Work on interesting and challenging projects, while building a pioneering software category
Great atmosphere, with the vibe and energy of a high-growth tech company
Competitive salaries
Option of equity
Close collaboration between UA and US team members
Ultramodern office in the heart of Lviv (Magnus) and Kyiv (Gulliver)
Flexible working hours
Complimentary dinners (like Pizza Friday!)
English classes and an immersive English-speaking work environment (we have a lot of native speakers at the office)
Ability to travel to the US
Corporate activities and parties
Dedicated wellness area in the office
20 working days of paid vacation
15 days of paid sick leave
And, of course, we use Surprise internally!