International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 14 May 2015

Apcera - Hybrid Cloud Start-Up San Francisco, CA
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Apcera is disrupting the world of IT with the world’s first OS for the Hybrid Cloud. Our Hybrid Cloud OS has policy and governance built in at the core, allowing IT organizations and developers alike to safely and easily develop, deploy, orchestrate and govern any imaginable workload — apps, services, Docker containers, OS’s — either on premise or in any cloud, public or private, in a friction-free and trusted fashion.

Based in SOMA in SF and led by CEO Derek Collison, Apcera has substantial backing from Ericsson, the global technology, cloud and mobile giant headquartered in Sweden. Join us and help build the world\'s first Hybrid Cloud OS.

As a Security Architect at Apcera, you will oversee the security protocols in use inside and outside the Continuum platform, inform choices for security technologies and policies and review code for secure practices and patterns. You will lead efforts to infiltrate Apcera’s security controls, you will work within the Go community, the open source cryptographic community and with security leaders in the industry to improve and harden the Continuum platform.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience with security technologies

Minimum of 7 years software development experience in a combination of any of the following languages: GO, C, C++, Java, C#, Python or Ruby

Minimum of 5 years’ experience working with Linux operating system development

Minimum 2 years in security engineering, crypto, policy, auth or related technologies

Understanding of the basic underpinnings of cryptographic technologies, authentication, authorization and distributed trust

Understanding about how Kerberos authentication works

Experience with techniques for escalating privilege

Knowledge about how basic cryptographic technologies relate to the design of OpenPGP and X.509 PKIX

In-depth knowledge of security

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