Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Scylos Inc. builds ZeroCore, a stateless endpoint platform that runs authorized containerized workloads without a persistent operating system. The Associate Solutions Architect / Sales Engineer will support technical pre-sales by building, maintaining, deploying, and troubleshooting containerized environments for customer demos, proofs of concept, and evaluations while supporting customer-facing technical work.
Responsibilities
- Build, update, and maintain containerized applications used in customer demos, POCs, and evaluations
- Partner with the Sr. Solutions Architect / Sr. Sales Engineer to understand customer requirements and translate them into technical implementations
- Create and modify standardized Docker Compose files for both customer-specific and internal use-cases
- Implement and iterate on POC environments under tight, sales-cycle-driven timelines
- Push changes through Scylos's existing CI/CD pipeline, following established QA and testing practices
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in containerized environments during POC builds and demos
- Maintain documentation for compose file configurations, environment setups, and common customization patterns
- Provide technical support during customer evaluations, escalating complex architecture questions to the Sr. Solutions Architect / Sr. Sales Engineer as needed
- Contribute to a library of reusable compose templates and configurations to speed up future POC delivery
- Other duties as assigned by management
Skills
- 1–3 years of experience working with Docker and containerized application deployment
- Working knowledge of Docker Compose, including writing and modifying compose files
- Comfortable debugging in a minimal Linux environment using shell, logs, filesystem, and process inspection
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and following established QA/testing workflows
- Basic understanding of networking, environment variables, and container configuration
- Strong communication and documentation skills — able to work cross-functionally with sales and engineering
- Ability to manage multiple POC requests under deadline pressure
- Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration tools
- Exposure to edge computing, IoT, or embedded systems
- Familiarity with Git-based version control workflows
- Prior experience in a pre-sales, solutions engineering, or customer-facing technical role
- Scripting experience (Bash, Python) for automating environment setup
Benefits
- Equity
- 401K (non-matching)
- Work from Home
- Health insurance
- Direct mentorship from our Sr. Solutions Architect / Sr. Sales Engineer with a path toward growing into that role
- Early team member with significant impact and growth potential
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