Careers at Alcide

Alcide is looking for a DevOps Engineer to develop, deploy and monitor Alcide production, dev, and text environments.

Responsibilities:

• Take responsibility for developing, deploying and monitoring Alcide production, dev, and test environments.
• Design and implement tools for creating and maintaining infrastructure and services in the cloud
• Work closely with engineering teams to deliver highly available and scalable services
• Engage with prospects and customers as part of Pre-Sale and PoC activities.
• Kubernetes witchcraft, cloud-based poetry

Qualifications (you must have):

• Hands on experience in at least one of the main cloud providers: AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Rock solid experience with Linux systems.
• Superb troubleshooting skills.
• N95 face mask
• Experience with docker and virtualization technologies
• strong shell scripting abilities.
• Experience in at least one of the following languages: Python, Go, java.
• Deep knowledge of networking and network protocols.
• Good vibes – A must

About You (we’d like you to have):

• Experience with Kubernetes – a BIG advantage.
• Familiar with Jenkins
• Experience in creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to write blog posts
• Experience with work on open-source projects

About Alcide:
Alcide delivers end-to-end Kubernetes security solution by empowering DevOps teams to drive frictionless security guardrails through their CI/CD pipelines, and security teams to continuously secure and protect their growing Kubernetes deployments.

Responsibilities:

• Research and define end-user needs 
• Analyze business/product requirements and create user flows / wireframes 
• Create detailed UX/UI design 
• Create responsive, up-to-date, front end solutions combining emerging standards and best practices in the organization 
• Run user validations 
• This position reports to VP of Product. 

Qualifications (you must have):

• 5+ years of experience designing UX/UI web applications for B2B software products 
• Expert in prototyping tools such as Sketch and inVision 
• Experienced in working closely with product managers and development teams throughout feature lifecycle, from definition to validation 
• Effective communication and teamwork skills 
• Advantage: Experienced in working in dynamic startup companies 
• Advantage: Experience in UX/UI for cyber and/or network products

About Alcide:
Alcide delivers end-to-end Kubernetes security solution by empowering DevOps teams to drive frictionless security guardrails through their CI/CD pipelines, and security teams to continuously secure and protect their growing Kubernetes deployments.

We are looking for a Sr. Backend Engineer to join us // you will:

• Be part of Alcide’s engineering gang that drives the development, deployment and monitoring of Alcide cloud service.
• Design and implement data processing flows on our Kubernetes based distributed system running Kafka, Cassandra, etcd & MongoDB
• Design and implement highly available and scalable services using Java & Go
• Design and implement complex data structures for real and near real time security analysis research on massive amounts of data

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as a backend developer with Java  (or other JVM-based language) servers
• BSc/MSc in Computer Science or equivalent experience, especially in the context of distributed systems
• Exceptional programming skills and troubleshooting skills backed by solid Computer Science foundations.
• Design and implement parallel and distributed system modules from requirement phase to production deployment
• Proven Experience in parallel and distributed large scale production environments
• Proven Experience working with one or more Nosql databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, …)
• Appetite for influencing and learning cloud native application technologies such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, etcd, Istio 

Advantage

• Experience with large-scale data processing platforms like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka
• Experience with the Go programming language
• Background in network-security or web-security
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Worked at startup in the past

As a sales engineer, you will drive prospects to evaluate and use Alcide product as part of the sales cycle. You will manage the POC from planning through setup, deployment, configuration and successful conclusion. You will work in a dynamic, agile environment with highly professional team members, and world-leading customers and partners.

Professional Requirements

• At least 5 years experience as a technical pre-sale engineer or IT security engineer
• Experience and knowledge of enterprise security products
• Experience and knowledge of cloud environments
• Experience in driving opportunities to successful POCs
• Ability to learn and master new technologies and adapt to new environments
• Ability to travel domestic and overseas
• Experience in working with DevOps teams – advantage
• Technical degree – advantage

Personal Requirements

• Customer first approach, with a passion for customer interaction
• Passion for hands-on technical work
• Problem Solver with a ‘making it work’ spirit
• Great interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Excellent presentation skills of demo and technical information – face to face and remotely
• A good listener that understands customer needs 

‍Customer requirements

• Enjoy working in a changing, high-pressure environment
• Execution driver, ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks