Senior Director of Security & DevOps Products

Cloudaware is a leading cloud management and CMDB platform serving enterprise organizations with significant cloud footprints. Founded 13 years ago, we’ve grown to nearly 50 employees across two primary engineering centers. Our platform, built on Salesforce with a Google Cloud backend, helps organizations assess and remediate gaps in their cloud management programs through deep integrations with leading security and observability tools

The Opportunity

We’re seeking an exceptional leader to transform our Ukrainian engineering team from a collection of talanted individual contributors into a cohesive, product-driven organization. This role represents a unique opportunity to take ownership of critical product capabilities—including Breeze (our enterprise DevOps fabric), vulnerability scanning, intrusion detection, patch management, identity management, log management, and TunHub—and elevate them to best-in-class offerings deeply integrated with our core CMDB platform.

The Challenge

Our Ukrainian team consists of highly skilled engineers who have built powerful modules including:

• Breeze: Enterprise DevOps fabric (similar to Chef/Puppet/Ansible) with 100+ plugins for CrowdStrike, Sophos, Tenable, New Relic, DataDog, and more.

• Vulnerability Scanning: Custom scanning solution with multi-vendor integrations

• TunHub: Reverse IPsec tunnel service (similar to Cloudflare Tunnel)

• Intrusion Detection, Patch Management, Identity Management, and Log Management modules

These engineers excel at execution but have explicitly chosen to remain individual contributors rather than evolve into product owners or team builders. The modules they’ve built often lack the deep CMDB integration that our third-party integrations achieve. Your mission is to provide the vision, product leadership, and bridge-building that will unlock this team’s full potential.

Product Vision & Strategy

• Develop a comprehensive product roadmap for the security and DevOps product portfolio that aligns with market needs and Cloudaware’s strategic direction

• Transform individual modules into cohesive, market-leading product offerings

• Identify opportunities for deeper integration with our core CMDB platform and create the business case for investment

• Drive product innovation by understanding customer pain points and translating them into actionable features

Team Development & Leadership

• Lead and mentor 7+ senior engineers (Breeze, Vulnerability Scanning, TunHub, IDS, Patch

Management, Identity Management, Log Management owners)

• Build a culture of product ownership and collaboration within the team

• Help individual contributors understand the “why” behind features and give them context for their work

• Create career development paths that respect engineers’ desire to remain technical while expanding their impact

• Scale the team thoughtfully as product complexity and customer demands grow

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Build a strong, productive working relationship with our Budapest-based CMDB and backend team (40+ people)

• Act as the primary bridge between Ukrainian and Budapest teams, fostering professional collaboration

• Navigate technical disagreements around API design, integration patterns, and architectural decisions

• Work with Budapest Technical Account Managers to understand customer needs and translate them into product requirements

• Partner with Budapest integration teams to ensure Ukrainian modules achieve parity or superiority compared to third-party integrations

Technical Product Management

• Define robust API strategies that satisfy both Budapest’s integration requirements and Ukrainian team’s implementation preferences

• Oversee the technical quality and reliability of all security and DevOps modules

• Ensure products are built with enterprise-grade reliability, scalability, and supportability

• Make build-vs-buy decisions for new capabilities and integrations

Business Outcomes

• Drive adoption and revenue growth of Cloudaware’s proprietary security and DevOps capabilities

• Work with sales and customer success to position modules effectively

• Track and improve key product metrics: adoption rates, customer satisfaction, integration quality, time-to-value

Required Experience

• 8+ years in product management, with at least 3 years leading product teams in cloud management, cybersecurity, or DevOps domains

• 3+ years of people management experience, including managing senior engineers or technical leads

• Proven track record building products that integrate with complex enterprise systems (CMDB, ITSM, security platforms)

• Deep understanding of DevOps toolchains, configuration management, vulnerability management, and cloud security

• Experience navigating technical disagreements and building consensus across distributed, autonomous teams

• Track record of taking products from “working” to "excellent"—elevating quality, integration depth, and customer value

• Excellent communication skills; ability to influence without direct authority

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Eastern European engineering teams

• Fluency in Ukrainian and/or Russian (highly valued for team rapport and cultural context)

• Experience with Salesforce platform or building products on Salesforce

• Background in cloud security products (vulnerability scanning, IDS, patch management)

• Familiarity with enterprise CMDB platforms and ITSM ecosystems

• Experience leading organizational transformation or change management in technical teams

First 90 Days

• Build trust and working relationships with all seven Ukrainian module owners

• Establish productive collaboration patterns with Budapest team leadership

• Conduct thorough assessment of current product capabilities, integration gaps, and market

opportunities

• Define initial roadmap priorities based on customer feedback and strategic value

First Year

• Deliver at least two major integration improvements between Ukrainian modules and CMDB core

• Establish regular collaboration rhythms between Ukrainian and Budapest teams

• Ship product improvements that drive measurable customer value (increased adoption, reduced support burden, new revenue)

• Begin evolving team structure—whether through hiring, role expansion, or organizational changes

• Achieve demonstrable improvement in Ukrainian team engagement and product ownership mindset

Long Term

• Ukrainian security and DevOps products become competitive differentiators for Cloudaware

• Integration quality with CMDB matches or exceeds third-party product integrations

• Team scales appropriately to support product ambitions

• Healthy, productive collaboration between Ukrainian and Budapest teams becomes the norm

• Revenue and customer satisfaction metrics for security/DevOps modules show strong upward trends

• Location: Remote, EU based (Ukraine strongly preferred for cultural context and time zone alignment, but open to exceptional candidates elsewhere in compatible time zones)

• Reports to: Founder/CEO

• Team: 7 senior engineers (remote across Ukraine)

• Key relationship: Budapest team (40+ people

• Travel: Periodic travel to meet with team members and attend company gatherings

• Compensation: Competitive for senior product leadership role, includes potential performance bonus tied to product success

If you’re energized by the challenge of transforming talented engineers into a cohesive product organization, building bridges across historically divided teams, and taking powerful technical capabilities to market, we’d love to hear from you.

Please submit your resume along with a cover letter addressing:

1. Your experience leading distributed, technical product teams

2. A specific example of how you’ve built collaboration between teams with different cultures or historical

tensions

3. Your approach to product vision and roadmapping in the cloud security/DevOps space

4. Why this particular challenge appeals to you