Engineering Lead

About us:

At Astra Security, we're not just a team; we're innovators, protectors, and storytellers.

As a U.S. & India based powerhouse, we proudly offer a state-of-the-art Pentest Platform that mimics hacker behaviour. We're not just about finding vulnerabilities; we've discovered 100,000+ of them for our clients! And guess what? We defend against over a million threats daily. 

Our accolades speak for our excellence—from being recognized as ‘The Most Innovative Security Company’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bagging the CyberTech100 title in 2021.

Why Join Us?

Because words are magical, and here at Astra, we believe they can make the digital world safer.

We're on a thrilling journey, and we need You, who can translate intricate technical tales into captivating content. Ready to embark on this cyber-adventure?

Your Mission (If You Choose to Accept):

• Craft content that bridges the gap between tech buffs and novices—think blog posts, white papers, and landing pages.
• Play a pivotal role in content management and project coordination.
• Guide and inspire budding writers on our team.
• Join forces with SEO, development, and design maestros to produce stellar content.
• Ensure every word we publish is a masterpiece—optimised, insightful, and valuable.
• Work with the marketing and frontend developer on the feedback shared and amend design changes.
• Work & come up with design guidelines for the brand

Requirements:

• 4+ years in content writing, especially in SaaS or content marketing realms.
• A flair for SEO and a penchant for NLP.
• The ability to decode complex tech puzzles and pen them down with finesse.
• Organizational prowess, self-driven spirit, and an eagle-eyed attention to detail.
• Prior experience of content marketing would be a big plus. 
• A sprinkle of experience in the cybersecurity world would be the cherry on top!
• Bonus: Familiarity with WordPress/Webflow CMS.

Benefits of joining the Astra Squad:

• Embrace the cosy remote work lifestyle.
• Feel the startup adrenaline pumping through your veins.
• Your brilliance showcased to thousands of eager readers and users.
• Revel in our open, growth-centric ambiance; it's like a digital playground.
• Dive deep into the captivating world of cybersecurity.
• And yes, get ready for some unforgettable workcations—think Chikmagalur & Jim Corbett. 

About Qrata:

Qrata is a talent search firm that partners with top VC firms such as Accel, Matrix, Sequoia, Lightspeed & more to help scale their portfolio teams globally. We have expertise in Engineering, growth, Design and product roles and the teams are divided by function to be able to have an in-depth view of these functions. We have a specialized mapping team that supports our talent partners with a more targeted search. 95% of our profiles make shortlists and hence our hiring is speedier. We work with late-stage companies such as Nykka, dream 11, pharmeasy, Jiosaavn, Marico etc. Our strength is in hiring for early-stage startups which is actually more challenging but have been able to get past all the challenges due to our structure in the process.

About the job:

Attention all aspiring HR professionals! If you've ever dreamed of transitioning into human resources but hesitated, now is your chance. We are committed to training you and ensuring your success in recruitment, helping you achieve your career aspirations.

Key responsibilities:

1. Candidate identification and engagement: Proactively seek out potential candidates for various job openings

2. Advanced sourcing techniques: Employ a variety of sourcing methods, including job boards, social media platforms, and databases, to locate resumes that align with the specific requirements of the role

3. Resume screening and initial interviews: Review resumes and conduct preliminary phone or video interviews to evaluate candidates' qualifications, availability, and interest

4. Interview coordination and candidate support: Manage the interview scheduling process and maintain communication with candidates throughout the hiring process, culminating in their successful onboarding

Roles & Responsibilities:

Create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture

Set clear team goals.

Delegate tasks and set deadlines.

Oversee day-to-day operations.

Monitor team performance and report on metrics.

Discover training needs and provide coaching.

Listen to team member feedback and resolve any issues or conflicts.

Recognize high performance and reward accomplishments

Encourage creativity and risk-taking.

Suggest and organize team-building activities.

Coordinating internally with different departments in order to give quick resolution to the seller.

Timely delivery of the goals and metrics.

Eligibility:

Good communication and writing skills are required.

Flexibility to work in the 6-day working environment.

Graduates can apply.

Minimum 2 years experience as TL.

• Design Infographics from the content/data
• Design Gifographics/Gif
• Presentation Design
• Ebook Design
• Annual Report design
• Motion Graphics Video Data visualisation
• Website PSD Design
• Mobile App UI/UX Design

Responsibilities and Duties

• Reporting to project manager at the end of day
• Working with a team of Designers and Creative

Qualifications and Skills

• Education: BCA.IT, MSC.IT, Diploma in IT, B.E,Fine Art Students
• Experience: Fresher (0-1) Year Experience
• You will be working with IT software development

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

F5 is looking for a Sr. Security Engineer with experience in building, integrating, operating, and maintaining robust security monitoring and auditing systems. F5’s Edge 2.0 platform provides global, scalable, and secure way to deploy applications. In this position, you will build and maintain monitoring and audit systems across the platform that provide necessary visibility and alerts to effectively defend the platform.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with software architects, security defenders, Operations, SRE, compliance experts, and business leaders to understand the logical boundaries of the systems and identify the events to monitor, audits to maintain, alerts to tweak, as well as systems to integrate with
• You will continuously hunt for areas and metrics to be added into monitoring systems for better operational visibility, incident response capability, availability, and forensics capability of the overall platform
• You will participate in the definition of processes around change and inventory management and develop solutions to audit the changes
• You will work with other teams within security organization to define communication and alerting protocols for effective and timely actions
• You will participate in defining and executing the Incident Response Plan for the platform and be responsible for providing necessary information during the response and forensics
• Demonstrate technical leadership in multiple domain areas, providing mentorship to other team members

Minimum qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 5+ years of security operation and monitoring experience
• Experience with logging, monitoring, SIEM, dashboarding tools like AWS GuardDuty, Sumo, Grafana, SolarWinds, DataDog, Splunk, etc.
• Working knowledge of at least one Cloud Computing platform (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute etc.)
• Good understanding of how to handle logs from various systems, integrate with systems handling logs and metrics, how to setup and tune alerts based on thresholds and policies
• Hands on experience with computer programming languages and/or scripting languages such as Python, Java, Shell
• Good understanding of complexities and security challenges in large-scale distributed systems
• Working knowledge of Cloud orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, Openstack etc.
• Self-motivated and willing to delve into new areas and take on new challenges in an enthusiastic manner
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal, team building, and mentoring skills

What you need to have:

• Leveraging customer insights to anticipate needs and obstacles within the path to purchase and designing strategies to target the obstacles and share knowledge with key stakeholders
• Interpreting the user journey to better understand and improve the customer experience (through digital engagements) and touch points that move consumers down the funnel to increase conversions
• Resolving gaps in the total customer experience to optimize the experience
• Facilitating the buying journey for products and/or services by understanding the key benefits of the offers
• Developing illustrations, logos and other designs
• Using the appropriate colours and layouts for each graphic
• Working closely with the marketing and production team to produce final design
• Amending designs after feedback
• Ensuring final graphics and layouts are visually appealing and on-brand

Desired Candidate Profile

• Proven graphic designing experience of 3-7 years
• A strong portfolio of illustrations or other graphics
• Familiarity with design software and technologies (such as InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Premier Photoshop)
• Good at developing illustrations, logos, and other designs
• A keen eye for aesthetics and details
• Ability to work methodically and meet deadlines

• You will own a functional area - from product conception to its delivery to customers
• You will be designing and coding independently in multiple tech components related to your functional area
• You will also need to develop a deep understanding of non-functional requirements, such as reliability and availability, scale, horizontal scalability, etc., over time and make tech stack decisions accordingly
• You will also be actively mentoring our junior engineers. You need to someone who owns the codebase quality
• We are looking for seasoned engineers who are quality conscious, product thinkers, business cognizant and smart – not just coders
• Engineers get to significantly amplify the impact of their efficient work or creations with the scale that startups operates at
• Love the Startup Hustle? You have come to the right place!

Requirements:

• 2+ years of deep expertise with JavaScript (Node.js) and any objected oriented high level proprietary or open source language with strong programming constructs
• Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions
• Strong problem solving skills
• Good understanding of data structures & algorithms and their space & time complexities
• Strong technical aptitude and a good knowledge of CS fundamentals
• Hands-on experience working with Databases and Linux platform
• Strong object oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
• Experience in Consumer facing apps - Analytics SDKs integrations, Marketing SDKs integrations, Performance optimisation, SQL databases
• Should have developed and delivered successful mobile app projects
• Experience with Devops including Docker, AWS, Serverless

Perks

• Opportunity to start from scratch
• Flexible and cool work environment - Startup work culture
• Young and dynamic team
• Offsites
• Regular game and hangout sessions every week