Head of Information Security

Talus employs 2,400 people across engineering hubs in Kaunas and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Job summary

We're looking for a Head of Information Security to join our team in Kaunas. Security engineering role focused on identity, cloud configuration and detection. You'll work closely with platform and IT. This position is on site in Kaunas.

Job duties

• Respond to security incidents and lead the technical investigation
• Coordinate external penetration tests and track remediation
• Write secure coding guidelines and run developer training
• Build detections and response playbooks in Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel or Elastic
• Maintain EDR coverage with CrowdStrike Falcon or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in security engineering, application security or a related engineering role
• Understanding of networking, TLS, PKI and authentication protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0)
• Experience with SIEM, EDR or vulnerability management tools
• Good judgment on risk: knowing what to fix now and what can wait
• Ability to explain security issues to engineers without lecturing them

Nice to have

• OSCP, OSWE, CISSP or a cloud security certification (AWS Security Specialty, AZ-500)
• Kubernetes and container security (Falco, OPA Gatekeeper)

Pay and benefits

• Private medical care
• Extra annual leave days
• Language courses

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Talus AB.