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

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
Extremely competitive salary for the local market
20 working days of paid vacation
15 days of paid sick leave
Modern comfortable offices in Lviv (Magnus) and Kyiv (Gulliver)
Fruits and dinners
And, of course, we get Surprises internally.