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We build an AI platform that transitions Security Operations Centers from reactive to proactive units through autonomous security alert investigations.\nIn just three years, we have:\nRaised a total of $44m in series-A & seed rounds from EQT Ventures, Forgepoint Capital and Partech\n\nDeployed our solution with major Enterprises such as Sodexo and GlobalConnect, and leading MSSPs like Orange Cyberdefense\n\nExpanded to the US market with a growing North American presence\n\nEnded 2025 with a strong multi-million dollar ARR and ambitious goals for 2026\n\nWe are launching Qevlar on-premise for customers who cannot let their security data leave their perimeter. Your job is to turn a signed bundle into a running production platform inside their datacentre, and to make each deployment faster than the last.\nOn these accounts the critical path is rarely the software. It is the security review board, the firewall change request, the PKI team, the change advisory board. 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The acceptance test is a customer engineer completing an install without calling us.\n\nOwn the release train to customers. Version announcements, upgrade campaigns, migration planning across a fleet where every customer sits on a different release.\n\nRun L3 triage. Qualify the issue, reproduce it from a support bundle, and escalate with everything engineering needs. You are the reason our engineers can debug an environment they will never see.\n\nClose the loop. Every friction point you hit in the field becomes a documented requirement, a product ticket or a change to the bundle. The playbook gets shorter every quarter.\n\nCut the cycle time. Signature to production should shrink measurably across your first four deployments. That number is yours.\n\nWho you are \nYou have:\nDeployed complex software into large enterprise datacentres, as a deployment architect, delivery lead, professional services engineer or technical program manager. 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