Qualys
Senior Subject Matter Expert, Compliance Solutions
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About the role
- This is a hands-on technical role focused on security configuration compliance, policy auditing, regulatory frameworks, configuration assessment, and compliance automation.
- The ideal candidate should combine deep technical expertise in security compliance with strong customer-facing and communication skills.
- Qualys is an Equal Opportunity Employer, please see our EEO policy.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with support and engineering teams to troubleshoot complex compliance, policy, scanning, control, and deployment challenges and drive issues to resolution.
- Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to translate customer requirements into product enhancements, features, and roadmap priorities.
- Create targeted technical content, including pitch decks, solution briefs, use cases, demo videos, technical blogs, whitepapers, and compliance best-practice content.
- Deliver sales, partner, and internal technical training, keeping teams updated on the latest compliance capabilities, use cases, and competitive positioning.
- Analyze the competitive landscape, develop competitive intelligence, and train sales teams on positioning compliance solutions against competing security and configuration assessment platforms.
- Collaborate with Product Marketing to develop compelling product collateral, demonstrations, customer stories, and go-to-market content.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in solution engineering, pre-sales systems engineering, technical consulting, product SME, compliance consulting, or a similar customer-facing technical role.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of security configuration management, compliance assessment, policy auditing, and configuration hardening.
- Experience working with CIS Benchmarks and security/compliance frameworks such as NIST, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, DISA STIG, CMMC, or FedRAMP.
- Hands-on experience with Windows, Linux/Unix, databases, and enterprise infrastructure technologies.
- Familiarity with REST APIs, automation, scripting, and integrations is an advantage.
- Excellent analytical, written, presentation, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex compliance and technical requirements in simple business terms.
- Strong customer-facing skills with the ability to conduct technical workshops, product demonstrations, POCs, and executive-level discussions.
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, or equivalent experience.
- Act as a trusted advisor and evangelist for enterprise security compliance solutions, with a strong understanding of CIS Benchmarks, regulatory compliance, security frameworks, continuous compliance, and audit readiness.
Nice to have
- Experience with enterprise security and compliance platforms is preferred.
Company info
- We are looking for a Subject Matter Expert (SME) - Compliance to join our team.
- Act as the voice of customers, delivering value-focused demonstrations, workshops, and technical discussions while advising customers on compliance best practices.
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