Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in Executive Department
in Hostinger - Lithuania, Vilnius
Remote
Full-time
Lead
Full-Time
Job description
See job offer description.
Join Hostinger, and we’ll grow fast! We’re shaping the future of online success – powered by AI and driven by people. With 900+ talented professionals and over 5 million clients in 150 countries, we help creators and entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life faster and easier than ever before.
Our mission: To provide tools that help individuals and small businesses succeed online faster and easier.
Our culture: Guided by 10 company principles. Our formula for success: Customer obsession, innovative products, and talented teams.
Your role at Hostinger Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) As Hostinger continues to grow in scale, infrastructure complexity, and global presence, we are looking for a technically strong CISO to lead the next phase of our security evolution. This is not a purely administrative or compliance-driven role.
We are looking for a leader with deep technical understanding who can define long-term security strategy, shape architectural direction, and elevate cyber risk management to executive level – while staying close to engineering, software development and infrastructure realities. You will work directly with executive leadership and collaborate closely with Engineering, Infrastructure, and Product teams to ensure Hostinger remains secure, scalable, and trusted by millions of customers worldwide. Curious to learn more? Connect with your team: Justinas Prelgauskas, VP of Software Engineering Your day-to-day
skills in high-impact situations.
Compensation
- Gross salary starting from 7500 EUR. Specific compensation is offered based on work experience, competence, and compliance with other job requirements.
We’re always looking for experienced talent to raise the bar. If you’re excited about the role but the listed salary range doesn’t align with your expectations, we still encourage you to apply – we’re open to adjusting compensation based on the impact and value you bring. Get ready to take your personal and professional growth to new heights! Join Hostinger today and be part of our journey Three. Two. Onboard
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Benefits
- Own Hostinger’s security roadmap.
- Align security investment with business growth and infrastructure evolution.
- Define security capability maturity targets.
- Define enterprise security architecture principles.
- Review major infrastructure and product design decisions.
- Ensure coherent identity, cloud, and platform security models.
- Prevent fragmented or short-term tooling decisions.
- Define and maintain risk appetite framework.
- Approve high-risk vendor and exception decisions.
- Present cyber risk posture at executive and board level.
- Act as executive security authority during high-severity incidents.
- Translate technical exposure into business impact.
- Support executive decision-making.
- Present security posture during business reviews.
- Align risk reporting with business objectives.
- Mentor senior security leaders.
- Ensure clear separation between strategy and operational execution.
Job requirements
- 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with strong hands-on background earlier in your career.
- Proven expertise in cloud-native platforms (GCP preferred), IAM, infrastructure security, CI/CD pipelines, APIs, and internet-facing services, and large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of modern detection and response ecosystems (SIEM, EDR, XDR, CDR, logging, telemetry).
- Experience reviewing or designing enterprise-level security architectures.
- Ability to understand complex infrastructure end-to-end.
- Experience building or guiding scalable security control models.
- Strong grasp of attacker behavior, threat modeling, and risk-based prioritization.
- Experience leading security teams or senior security professionals.
- Comfortable operating at executive and board level.
- Proven ability to align security direction with business growth.
- Strong knowledge of ISO 27001 and regulatory frameworks (e.g., NIS2).
- Experience overseeing vendor risk and risk acceptance processes.
- Ability to maintain strong compliance posture without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Ability to translate technical risk into clear business language.
- Confident executive presence.