The Role
Serve as a customer-facing technical advisor on cloud security and compliance. Conduct cloud architecture reviews, map remediation to compliance controls (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA), provide hands-on guidance to engineering/DevOps, champion the Scrut platform, feed product/engineering with customer feedback, and create technical reference content and best-practice guidance.
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About the Job
As a Cloud Solution Engineer, you will be the key technical partner and trusted advisor for our customers. Your mission is to guide them through their cloud security and compliance challenges, helping them build secure and resilient environments. You will be the bridge between their technical reality and the streamlined compliance offered by the Scrut platform.
Responsibilities
- Lead Cloud Architecture Reviews: Proactively engage with customers to lead comprehensive reviews of their cloud environments
- Translate Technical Gaps into Compliance Actions: Analyse findings from architectural reviews and translate them into a clear, actionable remediation plan. Critically, you will map these technical remediation steps directly to the specific controls required for compliance frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.
- Provide Hands-On Technical Guidance: Partner directly with customer’s Engineering and DevOps teams. You won't just identify problems; you will provide expert, hands-on guidance on how to fix them, offering best practices for implementing security controls, IAM policies, network configurations, and data protection strategies etc.
- Champion the Scrut Platform: Act as the technical champion for our product. You will demonstrate to customers how to leverage the Scrut platform to automate evidence collection and continuously monitor their newly hardened cloud posture, proving their compliance status in real-time.
- Product & Engineering Collaboration: Act as the voice of the customer internally. Channel real-world feedback and technical challenges from customer engagements to our Product and Engineering teams, helping to shape the product roadmap and improve platform capabilities.
- Develop Technical Content: Create and maintain a library of reference architectures, best practice guides, and technical documentation that helps scale our ability to guide customers effectively.
- Serve as a Trusted Advisor: Build strong relationships with customer stakeholders, from individual engineers to the Leadership Team, establishing yourself as their go-to expert for cloud security and compliance.
Requirements
- 3-5+ years in a customer-facing technical role such as a Solution Architect, Cloud Consultant, Security Architect, or a similar position at a cloud-native company or consulting firm.
- Deep Cloud Expertise: Demonstrable, hands-on experience across Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). You should be able to lead technical discussions on these services with confidence.
- Proven Architectural Review Experience: Verifiable experience conducting AWS Architecture Reviews or similar cloud architecture and security assessments. You should be intimately familiar with the principles of the framework.
- Exceptional Customer-Facing Skills: A genuine passion for making customers successful. You must be an excellent communicator, capable of building trust and articulating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Problem-Solver Mindset: You are a natural problem-solver who can think on your feet and enjoys the challenge of navigating complex customer environments.
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field is preferred.
- Good understanding of the technical requirements for major compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA) is a strong plus
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) is a strong plus.
About Us
Scrut Automation is an information security and compliance monitoring platform, aimed at helping small and medium cloud-native enterprises develop and maintain a robust security posture, and comply with various infosec standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and the like with ease. With the help of the Scrut platform, customers reduce their manual effort for security and compliance tasks by 70%, and build real-time visibility of their security posture.
Founded by IIT/ISB/McKinsey alumni, the founding team has over 15 years of combined Infosec experience. Scrut is built out of India for the world, with customers across India, APAC, North America, Europe and the Middle East. Scrut is backed by Lightspeed Ventures, MassMutual Ventures and Endiya Partners, along with prominent angels from the global SaaS community.
Why should this job excite you?
- Opportunity to make an early impact on one of the most promising, high-growth SaaS startups in India
- A flat-hierarchical, performance-driven culture
- Rapid growth and learning opportunity
- Comprehensive medical insurance coverage
- A high-performing action-oriented team
- Immense exposure to the founders and the leadership
- Opportunity to shape the future of the B2B SaaS team with YOUR innovative ideas
- Competitive compensation package, benefits, and employee-friendly work culture
Note: Due to a high volume of applications, only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted by the HR team. We appreciate your interest and effort.
Skills Required
- 3-5+ years in a customer-facing technical role (Solution Architect, Cloud Consultant, Security Architect, or similar)
- Hands-on experience across cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience conducting cloud architecture/security assessments (e.g., AWS Architecture Reviews)
- Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management skills
- Problem-solver mindset with ability to produce actionable remediation plans
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
- Understanding of compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
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The Company
What We Do
Scrut Automation is a modern GRC platform designed to help fast-growing organizations simplify security, compliance, and risk management. By combining continuous automation with expert guidance, Scrut reduces manual workloads, accelerates audit readiness, and empowers teams to scale their security posture confidently. From HIPAA and SOC 2 to ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI, and beyond, Scrut helps teams achieve multi-framework compliance with ease.
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