Chief Information Security Officer

Who We Are

Freedx is a newly established cryptocurrency exchange focused on building a scalable, compliant, and liquidity driven trading platform. Our team brings deep experience across crypto exchanges, payments, market structure, and financial infrastructure. Freedx is built for serious traders and emerging markets, with a clear focus on unit economics, operational discipline, and sustainable growth.

Our Vision

Freedx aims to be a trusted global exchange by combining strong liquidity, efficient onboarding, and disciplined growth execution. We focus on long term retention and monetization rather than vanity metrics, ensuring that growth directly translates into trading volume, revenue, and profitability.

About the Role

We are looking for a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to lead and scale the security function at Freedx. This role will be responsible for defining the company’s overall security strategy and ensuring the protection of our exchange platform, infrastructure, and digital assets. As a hands-on leader, you will work closely with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to embed security across the entire technology stack and software lifecycle. This role is critical in building a secure, resilient foundation as Freedx scales globally.

Responsibilities:
•Define and implement company-wide security strategy
•Design and own identity & access management architecture across all systems
•Secure exchange platform, wallets, APIs, and trading infrastructure
•Establish security across the full software lifecycle (code, dependencies, CI/CD pipelines)
•Lead incident response, threat detection, and risk management
•Drive security culture and practices across all teams, not only engineering

Requirements

• Strong experience in cloud and infrastructure security (AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD)
  •Proven ability to design IAM and system integrations at scale
  •Experience securing software supply chain (repositories, dependencies, pipelines)
  •Background in crypto, fintech, or high-risk environments
  •Hands-on mindset with ability to work cross-functionally across the company

Benefits

Freedx is an equal opportunity employer. We stand for an open and inclusive work environment that fosters the well-being of everyone. We embrace and encourage differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our people unique.

Originally posted on Himalayas