Job Description

About HawkCell

HawkCell is a pioneering company dedicated to advancing animal imaging through cutting-edge AI and medical imaging technologies. Our mission is to transform patient care by enhancing diagnostic accuracy and efficiency. Having secured Series A funding in early 2024, we are expanding rapidly to international markets (NORAM & APAC) to become the leader in animal imaging.

We are a fast-growing company providing a cutting-edge portfolio of solutions for veterinary clinics. Our solution is a powerful SaaS platform that delivers protocol optimization and MRI & CT image denoising algorithms designed to enhance diagnostic precision.

Our diverse team, composed of experts from various fields and backgrounds, collaborates to create impactful products. Headquartered in Lyon and with a global market presence, we are on a mission to modernize veterinary imaging, and we're looking for a driven, dynamic Sales & Business Development Hunter to accelerate our market penetration and drive long-term client success.

Join our passionate HawkStars and make a difference, one image at a time!

Our Values

• AMBITION We believe in reaching for the moon to reach for the stars, having eyes that twinkle as we approach the goal and showing enthusiasm to inspire and motivate each of our people. We believe that success is a combination of talents. The common goal comes first.

• INNOVATION For us, innovation means allowing everyone to unleash their creativity at all stages of the organisation. It also means being of a continuous improvement process and not hesitating to question what exists in order to create differentiating value. Dare to create.

• TRUST For us nothing is built without trust and responsibility. Believing in oneself and believing in others is the virtuous path that leads to a team's success. It is the founding value and the soil that fertilises our innovation, our ambition and our resilience. It allows us to make mistakes, without fear of judgement, and to keep moving towards Excellence, T-O-G-E-T-H-E-R!

• EXCELLENCE: We demand and deliver the highest standards across everything we do, from the precision of our technologies to the quality of our service and from our internal organization to our processes.

• GRIT: We embrace hard work, perseverance and discipline, knowing that true progress is achieved through sustained effort and mastery.

About the role

We’re looking for a versatile technical profile to join us full-time, with skills spanning system administration, cloud security, and DevOps. This is a hands-on role for someone eager to optimize infrastructure, support our ISO certification journey, and ensure our tech environment is reliable, scalable, and secure. This role is known also as DevSecOps Engineer.

This role is based in Lyon, France.

What you'll do

• Take ownership of AWS DevOps tasks, including deployment, maintenance, and scaling of HawkCT and HawkAI cloud infrastructures.
• Manage IPSec tunnel setups and collaborate with client IT departments to ensure secure and stable connectivity.
• Oversee IT infrastructure across multiple office locations, including VPNs (Marcy-Vaise, Grosse Bertha), Synology, and individual VPNs to devices.
• Improve and enforce standardized configuration policies using NinjaOne for all categories of devices (Mac/Windows, internal/external).
• Contribute to the development of an on-premise version of HawkAI for clinics with limited internet access.
• Enhance system monitoring, ensuring robust and responsive infrastructure performance.
• Collaborate with the team to implement a secured public testing version of HawkAI, aligned with suggestions from internal stakeholders.
• Support the development of HawkAI with improvements in processing parallelization (by slice and by sequence).
• Participate in securing cloud environments, ensuring data encryption, implementing intrusion detection systems, and overall hardening of infrastructure.
• Perform monthly vulnerability assessments on Python packages and third-party dependencies.
• Ensure physical device security through encryption, anti-malware protection, and centralized device management.
• Support and contribute to the setup and ongoing maintenance of our Information Security Management System (ISMS) for ISO 27001 and 42001 compliances.

What we are looking for

• Must Have:
• • 2–4 years of experience in system administration, security, or DevOps
  • Strong scripting and infrastructure-as-code skills
  • Familiar with VPN configuration, endpoint management, and AWS services
  • Interest and experience in cybersecurity and regulatory compliance
  • Comfortable working independently across multiple domains
  • Ability to work in an international and English-first environment
• Nice to have:
• • Worked in ISO regulated environments
  • Experience in a SaaS startup
  • Experience in the veterinary industry

Why join us?

• A mission to revolutionize the animal healthcare industry
• A great and ambitious team to grow with
• An international culture with 10+ nationalities in the team
• An amazing office for you to share with other Hawkstars in Lyon, France

Recruitment Process

• 30-minute Screening Interview with the CPO
• 30-minute Short Technical Interview with the CTO or DS Team Member
• 60-minute technical interview with the CTO & CSO
• 30-minute culture interview with the CEO