Principal Engineer - Data Science

About us:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 8300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview: 

We're looking to on-board an enthusiastic Customer Success Specialist who loves delighting customers. The role requires hand-holding customers during on-boarding and making them Astra-nauts (yes, that's what we call our customers & team members!) who are well versed with Astra's platform. 

The role will also require collaboration with our sales, security and marketing team. We're a cyber security company with CTOs, engineering leaders & CISOs as our ICP, hence we'll prefer candidates who come with some understanding of principles of computer science.  

Roles & Responsibilities: 

• Ensuring a smooth customer on-boarding
• Championing product adoption
• Maintaining high NPS
• Ensuring renewals of the accounts assigned to you
• Understanding customer requirements and translating them into deliverables.
• You will be attending to customer emails and phone calls on a daily basis
• You will be looking after stakeholder management between various teams and customers.
• Experience working with brand image and promoting value through customer experience
• Building a rapport with the customers
• You will be up-selling and cross-selling complementary Astra products
• You will be ensuring timely delivery by communicating across teams
• Diligently maintain customer success platform

Requirements for this role:

• 1-3 years of experience in customer success
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Technical knowledge required to work in a cyber security organization’s customer-facing role
• Ability to build rapport with the stakeholders
• Willingness to work in a remote setup

Benefits of joining the Astra Squad:

• Embrace the cosy remote work lifestyle.
• Feel the startup adrenaline pumping through your veins.
• 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.

Roles and Responsibilities:

·      Fundraising including PE, QIP, IPO, Bonds, ECB, Term Loans & Structured Finance across the globe.

·      Commercial negotiation for financing terms, loan documentation, placements, acquisitions and investments.

·      Financial evaluation in respect of bidding for new projects.

·      Initial, quarterly and annual due diligence for structured and regular credit rating.

·      Effective monitoring, optimum utilization and investment of funds.

·      Review and implementation of periodic cash budget.

·      Periodic review of finance cost and its optimization.

·      Planning utilization of non-fund based facilities. 

·      Relationship management with the banking and investor community.

·      Project financing including refinancing/ restructuring of loans from FI and banks.

·      Valuation and financial modeling for M&A, Joint Venture, financial reporting, portfolio valuation

·      Performing asset or company valuation through various valuation such as Discounted cash flow (DCF), Comparable Company, Comparable transaction, NPV valuation methods or SOTP methods

·      Valuation of intangible assets and goodwill impairment analysis

·      Built comprehensive financial model after understanding RFPs

·      Performing IRR and NPV analysis, sensitivity analysis and scenario modeling for assessing financial viability of projects

·      M&A BD activities including Target search, Benchmarking, Secondary research and company profiling.

·      Preparation of reference materials such as Treasury MIS, presentations, board notes, etc for decision making by senior management, investor and board of directors.

·      Preparation / review of periodic compliances / reporting’s with the lenders / credit rating agencies such as FFR / QIS, Stock Statement, UFCE, NDS, undertakings / declarations, etc.

Job Title: Front Desk & Security Executive (Male Candidates Only)

Location: Near Trinity Metro Station, Bangalore

Job Overview:

We are seeking a male Front Desk & Security Executive with 3+ years of experience to manage reception duties and ensure the security of our IT office. The role involves monitoring access, preventing unauthorized activities, and responding to security incidents.

Key Responsibilities:

Greet visitors and manage front desk tasks.

Monitor and control access to the office.

Prevent criminal activities and address safety threats.

Conduct body frisking to ensure compliance with security guidelines.

Respond promptly to security incidents.

Qualifications:

Male candidates only.

3+ years of experience in front desk or security roles.

Graduate of ROTC/CHDF/Criminology Course or equivalent (good to have).

Must be at least 162 cm in height, 120 lbs in weight, and a High School graduate.

Must be physically and mentally fit for security duties.

Must have completed Pre-Licensing Training Course/Basic Security Guard Course or be exempt.

Must be an Indian Citizen.

Good to have: Proficiency in Kannada, Hindi, and English.

Working Hours:

Full-time, Monday to Friday (Shifts may vary).

Interested candidates connect @Bhavani P on the LinkedIn or message your number/ id on the cut short chat.

•  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
•  Ability to work independently, learn quickly and be proactive
•  10-14 years of hands-on experience working on Web Full Stack technologies, with at least 4-6 years of experience developing applications with/on React/NextJS, NoSQL, REST APIs
•  Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeDcript (ES6), NodeJS, HTML5, CSS3, CSS Preprocessors, Webpack, Gulp
•  Client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks – jQUery, ReactJS, Redux, Babel, JSX
•  Experience in designing high-performance REST APIs and associated data structures
•  Familiarity with developing microservices using containerization technologies such as docker, Kubernetes, etc.
•  Working knowledge of git and using branches for development

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 1st Line Technician to join our growing InVentry support team. This team is a vital part of the organization, as we're the first point of call for our 8,000+ customer base (and growing! ). We aim to deliver world-class service & make customers feel part of the team, working closely together to resolve technical issues.

Responsibilities:

• Answering incoming support queries from our customers via calls and live chat
• Logging and responding to customers through our ticketing system, Zendesk
• Managing assigned tickets promptly, ensuring customers are kept up to date
• Resolve customer queries using remote support software, following all correct processes to come to a timely resolution
• Assist in updating and building our customer knowledge base & best practice guides
• Meeting SLA's and KPI's

Requirements:

• Tech-savvy and have a passion for customer service
• A strong problem solver and think logically at all times
• An advocator of our one-team mentality and a great team player
• A great listener and pride themselves on their impeccable communication skills
• Great at driving their personal development

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps including automated system configuration, application deployment, and infrastructure-as-code. 
• Advanced Linux system administration abilities. 
• Real-world experience managing large-scale AWS or GCP environments. Multi-account management a plus. 
• Experience with managing production environments on AWS or GCP. 
• Solid understanding CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, CircleCI/Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory/Nexus. 
• Experience on any configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet or Chef is a must. 
• Experience in any one of the scripting languages: Shell, Python, etc. 
• Experience in containerization using Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes/EKS/GKE is a must. 
• Solid understanding of SSL and DNS. 
• Experience on deploying and running any open-source monitoring/graphing solution like Prometheus, Grafana, etc. 
• Basic understanding of networking concepts.
• Always adhere to security best practices.
• Knowledge on Bigdata (Hadoop/Druid) systems administration will be a plus.  
• Knowledge on managing and running DBs (MySQL/MariaDB/Postgres) will be an added advantage. 

What you get to do 

• Work with development teams to build and maintain cloud environments to specifications developed closely with multiple teams. Support and automate the deployment of applications into those environments 
• Diagnose and resolve occurring, latent and systemic reliability issues across entire stack: hardware, software, application and network. Work closely with development teams to troubleshoot and resolve application and service issues 
• Continuously improve Conviva SaaS services and infrastructure for availability, performance and security 
• Implement security best practices – primarily patching of operating systems and applications 
• Automate everything. Build proactive monitoring and alerting tools. Provide standards, documentation, and coaching to developers.
• Participate in 12x7 on-call rotations 
• Work with third party service/support providers for installations, support related calls, problem resolutions etc. 

• Minimum 8+ years of experience working in a IT environment of which 5+ years as a  product manager/Product Owner for a web/mobile product
• Experience working with business, technical and external stakeholders to elicit inputs to draft out roadmaps
• Excellent communication skills ( written, verbal, presentation) 
• ability to create and present product roadmaps 
• Ability to breakdown the roadmap into Epics, detailed user stories, create backlog items. 
• Must be able to communicate business requirements to tech teams 
• Must be able to work in a team and also independently 
• experience in mobile game design will also be considered Extremely good when it comes to understanding usability issues and creating mock-up screens High intelligence, ability to conduct 
• Coding languages (ex: Java, Reactjs)  is a plus
• strong market research and come up with a well-articulated business plan Should be in regular touch with the latest happenings in the technology world Outstanding 
• communication skills both oral and written 
• Demonstrated ability to analyze business issues across multiple domains 

Job Description

We are looking for a qualified Front-end developer to join our IT team. You will be responsible for building the ‘client-side’ of our web applications. You should be able to translate our company and customer needs into functional and appealing interactive applications.

If you’re interested in creating a user-friendly environment by writing code and moving forward in your career, then this job is for you. We expect you to be a tech-savvy professional, who is curious about new digital technologies and aspires to combine usability with visual design.

Ultimately, you should be able to create a functional and attractive digital environment for our company, ensuring great user experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Use markup languages like HTML to create user-friendly web pages
• Maintain and improve website
• Optimize applications for maximum speed
• Design mobile-based features
• Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability
• Get feedback from, and build solutions for, users and customers
• Write functional requirement documents and guides
• Create quality mockups and prototypes
• Help back-end developers with coding and troubleshooting
• Ensure high quality graphic standards and brand consistency
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies
• Create fast and functional and intuitive interfaces
• Follow coding standards, build appropriate unit tests, integrate tests and deployment scripts

• Translate designs and style guides provided by the UI/UX team into functional user interfaces, ensure cross-browser compatibility and performance

• Suggest improvements to user interface, software architecture or use of new technologies Deliver reliable solutions that handle massive data and high traffic.

Skills Required

• Hands on experience with markup languages
• Experience with JavaScript, CSS and jQuery
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Understanding of layout aesthetics
• Knowledge of SEO principles
• Familiarity with software like Adobe Suite, Photoshop and content management systems
• An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent analytical and multitasking skills
• BSc degree in Computer Science or relevant field
• Tech/ M.Tech in CS or other related fields such as EE or MCA from IIT/NIT/BITS but not compulsory.
• Good experience in JavaScript/ReactJS/Nodejs/HTML/jQuery/Css/SASS

• Experience in AngularJs/ Webpack/ Gulp will be a plus point but not mandatory Strong Javascript fundamentals along with experience with libraries.
• Well versed in software engineering principles, frameworks, and technologies

• Takes responsibility for successful delivery of the solutions Communicates continually with the project teams Explains progress on the development effort

• Self-directed team player who thrives in a continually changing environment A hands on and a passionate coder with minimalistic design sense

• Prior start up experience is preferred