The Role

At Cognism, the security of our data, our systems and our clients’ systems is a business priority. Information security is embedded in the way we work, and we are driving a culture where the fastest path is the securest path. As the function continues to mature, we are now hiring for a Director of Security Engineering & Operations to report directly to our CISO. In this role you will own and drive the technical security strategy for Cognism’s web and data products, as well as our corporate environment. You will be responsible for designing a security programme that protects our most sensitive assets: our data, our data fusion engine and the logic that powers it. As a trusted partner to our R&D leadership team you will help to define and drive the long-term security engineering maturity roadmap, driving alignment across engineering leaders, product leadership and IT. If you’re energised by the idea of shaping measurable security processes and controls, from the ground up, aligning engineering around secure-by-design principles, and elevating operational excellence, then this is the role for you. This is a rare opportunity to define the technical security vision for a dataintensive product at a moment where AI, scale, and engineering velocity are creating new and exciting challenges. You will shape how Cognism builds securely for the next decade.

What success looks like

Within 12 months, you will have:

• Delivered a unified security engineering roadmap aligned with engineering leadership.
• Matured secure SDLC adoption across Web and Data engineering.
• Improved MTTD/MTTR through stronger SOC operations.
• Invested in and mentored a team with clear ownership, KPIs, and engineering trust.
• Reduced engineering friction by creating pragmatic, developerfriendly guardrails

What You'll Own

Security Strategy & Engineering Integration

• Define and own Cognism's technical security strategy that seeks to embed security-by-design within our web and data products, our data fusion engine and pipelines, and our corporate landscape. You will drive a strategy that is pragmatic, risk-ranked, and aligned to engineering velocity.
• Work directly with product and technology leadership as a strategic partner. You will drive ownership and accountability, clearly agreeing ways of working between your team and product and technology teams.
• Set and direct a secure SDLC strategy that engineers engage with, coaching and mentoring our application security engineer with running our threat modelling program, embedding security in CI/CD, and iteratively improving our vulnerability management processes.
• Partner with engineering leadership to ensure risk-driven supply chain management across our product, ensuring what we bring in doesn't undermine what we protect.
• Work directly with our Director of IT operations to ensure our corporate security posture is mitigating risk and empowering our employees to be as secure as possible, through guardrails that protect unacceptable risk but don’t stifle innovation.

Data & AI Security

• Partner with our VP of Data Engineering to strengthen the security of our enrichment engine, data pipelines, and warehouse ecosystems.
• Direct a strategy that considers security across the full data stack - from ingestion through to the warehouse - with a focus on access governance, data classification, and secrets management as non-negotiables.
• Define how Cognism embeds AI securely as LLMs and agentic workflows move deeper into the product and our technology teams’ operations.
• Partner with our CISO to shape and implement an AI security posture that is embedded in strong security foundations, helping us stay ahead of the threat landscape rather than reacting to it.

Detection, Response & SOC Partnership

• Own the strategic relationship with our 24/7 outsourced SOC holding them to a high standard on threat hunting, threat intelligence utilisation, and automated response, not just SLA compliance.
• Ensure Cognism has a holistic, well-maintained SIEM that reflects how we operate and improves continuously as the threat landscape evolves.
• Build the internal team into a trusted escalation layer, with clear incident response playbooks, rehearsed escalation paths, and a feedback loop that sharpens detection over time.

Team & Culture

• Lead a team of application and infrastructure security engineers, setting the standard for technical excellence and deep partnership with their engineering counterparts.
• Build a security culture where developers raise security questions early, understand threat models, and own remediations, not because policy requires it, but because the culture makes it natural.
• Be the security leader Cognism's engineers want in the room: credible enough to be trusted, collaborative enough to be included, and strategic enough to make it count.

What We Need

Leadership & influence

• Demonstrated experience building security programmes from scratch or transforming them significantly in a product-led, engineering-first company.
• A track record of influencing engineering culture and earning trust, not enforcing it.
• Experience managing external security partners, (e.g 24/7 Security Operations Centre, penetration testing 3rd parties) and raising their performance through clear accountability, not just contract reviews.
• Able to communicate risk in business terms to exec and board audiences, and technical terms to engineers, without losing precision in either direction.

Technical foundation

• Strong AppSec expertise (OWASP, API security, SAST/DAST, SDLC) with practical threat modelling experience – enough to challenge and coach our most senior application security engineers.
• Handson understanding of data security, cloud data warehouses, and pipeline integrity – enough to ensure we are driving the right programme of work across our technology department.
• Cloud security fluency with working knowledge of container and Kubernetes security, IAM design, and cloud-native security tooling – enough to clearly identify, prioritise and challenge solutions for implementing security in our cloud environment.
• Working knowledge of AI/LLM security risks: enough depth to assess integrations, define guardrails, and evolve the programme as the technology does.

Mindset

• Risk-based by instinct: prioritises based on both technical and business impact
• Builder mentality: energised by creating structure where there isn't any, pragmatic about sequencing, and focused on outcomes over coverage.
• Genuinely curious about AI, not just its security risks, but its potential to improve how security is done.

About the Role

The ideal candidate will be naturally collaborative, articulate, extremely organized, have a solid technical understanding of Veeam products, and motivated by maximizing customer success and outcomes. Soft skills combined with technical skills are key in this role. You will partner with Customer Success Engineers (CSEs) and Account Executives (AEs) to drive customer outcomes across security-related products and use cases within the Veeam Data Platform (VDP). You’ll lead readiness checks, data modeling, and risk conversations with CISO/CIO stakeholders, while monitoring telemetry and maturity against the Veeam Data Resilience Maturity Model (DRMM) to optimize posture and identify expansion opportunities.

What You’ll Do

• Engage customers on security-related products, architectures, and risk topics across the Veeam Data Platform (VDP).  
• Run readiness checks and lead data modeling to validate solution design and accelerate decisions.  
• Monitor attack surfaces and vulnerabilities (including DRMM scoring), track telemetry or recurring inspection signals, report trends, and capture potential health checks.  
• Validate designs to de-risk adoption and accelerate time to value.  
• Identify and articulate expansion opportunities; review consumption trends and schedule checkpoint reviews (with or without AE coordination).  
• Engage CISO/CIO stakeholders for risk, status, and opportunity discussions; synthesize inputs from account health and CSE-led QBRs.  
• Support AEs on security- and AI-driven expansion motions; influence roadmap priorities with CSE counterparts.  
• Operate as a pooled resource covering Enterprise and Commercial-Named accounts (generally $100K+ ARR), typically at a 1 Security Success Engineer to 6–8 CSE coverage ratio.  
• Note: Not the primary owner for Onboarding motions nor directly responsible for Renewals

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in engineering architecture for cybersecurity-related products (e.g., Security Engineer/Architect, Cloud Solution Architect, MLOps/ML Engineer).  
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field; advanced degree is a plus.  
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CompTIA Security+, CISSP, or equivalent).  
• Expertise in data security and governance, including DSPM/DLP; familiarity with AI/ML architectures.  
• Demonstrated ability to engage CISO/CIO stakeholders on risk, resilience, and modernization roadmaps.  
• Hands-on experience with solution design, POCs, telemetry monitoring, and maturity modeling (DRMM familiarity is a plus).  
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.  
• VMCE certification (can be completed after joining)

What You’ll Get 

• 26 paid days off annually, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
• Paid parental, maternity, and paternity leave
• Fully covered family medical plan, dental, rehab, and vaccinations
• Life, critical illness, and disability insurance
• Employer pension contribution via PPK
• Monthly Edenred allowance of 450 PLN for meals
• MultiSport card fully covered by Veeam, giving access to sports facilities nationwide
• Up to 12 free therapy sessions annually, plus legal and financial advice
• Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning

Please note: If the applicant is permanently located outside of Poland, Veeam reserves the right to decline the application for the position. Remote work is only possible for employees located in Poland. 

#LI-MP1

About the Role

The ideal candidate will be naturally collaborative, articulate, extremely organized, have a solid technical understanding of Veeam products, and motivated by maximizing customer success and outcomes. Soft skills combined with technical skills are key in this role. As a Customer Success Engineer, you are the primary technical owner driving long-term customer outcomes across the Veeam Data Platform. You’ll lead onboarding, adoption, and optimization; proactively identify churn risk, migrations, and upsell opportunities; and apply deep disaster recovery and resilience (DR&R) expertise to conduct recovery simulations, DRMM assessments, and quarterly resilience reporting for measurable customer value

What You’ll Do

• Configure customer accounts; customize backup policies and storage; facilitate onboarding; orient stakeholders; walk through admin portals; introduce support channels.  
• Identify migration opportunities; analyze usage and environment; conduct success planning and strategy sessions; align business outcomes with product adoption.  
• Conduct assessments; build protection plans; recommend software products and architectures across the Veeam Data Platform.  
• Run recovery simulations; apply the Veeam Data Resilience Maturity Model (DRMM) to track and report resilience posture; deliver quarterly resilience reports.  
• Monitor signals to detect churn risk early; define mitigation plans; partner on renewal strategy with actionable technical insights.  
• Build business cases; define TCO; articulate value propositions for expansion; schedule checkpoint reviews with stakeholders.  
• Engage CISO/CIO stakeholders with clear risk, status, and opportunity updates; support context for executive discussions and roadmap alignment.  
• Collaborate on marketing-informed campaigns and plays to drive adoption and expansion.  
• Operate with a long-term account assignment model tied to ARR and growth potential, typically covering 5–50 Enterprise and Commercial-Named accounts with $100K+ ARR.  
• Own the technical success plan and adoption roadmap; influence pricing, commercial terms, and renewal terms in partnership with Sales and CS leadership

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years in customer-facing engineering roles focused on data backup and recovery (e.g., Technical Consulting, Pre-Sales SE, Technical Account Manager); this is a mid-level role.  
• Advanced level of English (Spanish / German / French nice to have)
• Hands-on expertise across operating systems, virtualization, storage, scripting/automation, cloud platforms, and DR&R best practices.  
• Strong experience designing and executing protection plans, migrations, and recovery simulations; familiarity with Veeam platform capabilities is a plus.  
• VMCE certification required (may be completed post-hire within an agreed timeframe).  
• Preferred industry certifications: AWS Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional), Microsoft Azure Administrator or Solutions Architect Expert  
• Proven ability to translate business outcomes into technical adoption roadmaps and measurable value.  
• Executive stakeholder engagement skills (CISO/CIO) with the ability to synthesize technical, business, and risk signals into clear recommendations.  
• Excellent communication, cross-functional collaboration, and stakeholder management skills. 

What You’ll Get 

• 26 paid days off annually, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
• Paid parental, maternity, and paternity leave
• Fully covered family medical plan, dental, rehab, and vaccinations
• Life, critical illness, and disability insurance
• Employer pension contribution via PPK
• Monthly Edenred allowance of 450 PLN for meals
• MultiSport card fully covered by Veeam, giving access to sports facilities nationwide
• Up to 12 free therapy sessions annually, plus legal and financial advice
• Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning

Please note: If an applicant is permanently located outside of Poland, Veeam reserves the right to decline the application for this position.

#LI-MM1