Information security officer

As an Information security officer you will be responsible for:

• Definition, scoping, creation and execution of IT and Data Security strategies enhancing the reliability and security of the IT systems, projects and underlying data at your organization.
• Overseeing managers and teams that you are responsible for, allocating resources to ensure that staff deliver secure and robust IT solutions to any of the organizations identified and agreed requirements.
• Overseeing planning and execution of necessary vulnerability audits, penetration testing or forensic IT audits and investigations. Ensure that outputs improve your organizations IT Security.
• Oversee integration of new IT Systems Development with the organization's overall IT, Data and Information Security policies.
• Oversee staff training in all the latest security awareness skills, Check associated protocols, methodologies and procedures are implemented.
• Ensure compliance with any related legislation, such as the Data Protection Act, ISO standards or relevant government regulations.
• Plan budget allocations and associated financial forecasts relating to IT, Data and Information security.
• Supplier management. Liaise with and manage your partners, stakeholders, vendors, and third party service or solutions providers.
• Oversee projects, budgets and resources under your remit with a view to ensuring that your organization gets a favourable return on its investments in staff, hardware, software and service providers.
• Work mainly with our Compliance, Engineering (specially Backend) and Management teams.

• Good understanding of all current legislation and regulations pertaining to your organization
• Knowledge of common information security management frameworks, such as ISO/IEC 27001, and NIST, PCI DSS.
• Knowledge of relevant IT Security related hardware, software and vendor solutions
• At least 2-3 years work experience with in security fields/areas/departments
• Deep thinking analytical mind with the ability to quickly get to the root cause of issues
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills (Native Lithuanian and High level of English)
• Experience in working in FinTech area
• Project management (like PMP) or specific IT certifications (AWS Security)
• Experience with Cloud computing/Elastic computing across virtualized environments.
• An overall understanding of the software development, scripting and source code programming languages, that your teams will be using.
• Practical experience of computer operating systems such as MS Windows, UNIX/Linux

• You will join our offices based in Vilnius.
• Career Progression! If you enjoy working in a fast-paced, innovative environment, you'll get on here.
• Flexible working hours!
• Seeing your ideas become a reality - being in a small and fast-growing startup means you have plenty of chances to grow with us to the next level.