Careers at Xploreteq

Specialist work, not ticket queues.

We're a security specialist firm, not a generalist IT shop. That means our engineers go deep in a domain, own outcomes end to end, and work directly with the enterprises they're protecting.

Why here

What working here actually looks like.

01 · DEPTH

You specialise

Cybersecurity, AI governance or data protection — you build real depth in one, rather than spreading thin across everything.

02 · OWNERSHIP

You own the outcome

Engineers stay with an engagement from design through operations. You see whether what you built actually worked.

03 · ACCESS

You're in the room

Small teams mean direct client contact, including with CISOs, from early in your career rather than after a decade of internal escalation.

04 · CERTIFICATION

We fund the badge

Vendor and industry certification is supported — it's how we stay accredited and how you stay marketable.

05 · MODERN STACK

Current problems

Agentic AI security, SASE, DPDP readiness. The work is genuinely new, which is rarer in security services than it sounds.

06 · STANDARDS

Run to ISO/IEC 27001:2022

We hold ourselves to the standard we advise on, which shapes how we work internally as much as how we deliver.

Open roles

Where we're hiring.

Don't see an exact match? We hire on capability more than title — send us your CV and tell us what you want to work on.

Sales & Commercial

Sales Head

Pune (HQ) · national travel · Full-time · Work from office

Build and run the national field sales team; own the pipeline and the partner relationships.

Xploreteq is expanding its national sales function across cybersecurity, AI governance and data protection. The Sales Head builds and runs the field team across Pune, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Delhi, owns the national pipeline and forecast, and is the senior commercial counterpart to our OEM partners.

What you'll do
  • Recruit, coach and manage a distributed field sales team; set territory plans and quotas.
  • Own the national number and an accurate forecast to the CXO team; personally lead strategic enterprise pursuits.
  • Own senior relationships with OEM partners' regional sales leadership; drive co-sell and deal-registration discipline.
  • Establish a repeatable sales methodology, CRM standards and a deal-desk process.
You bring
  • 10+ years in enterprise IT or cybersecurity sales in India, with 4+ years leading a team.
  • A consistent record of carrying and achieving a large annual quota in security or IT services.
  • Existing CIO/CISO relationships and a working relationship with at least one major security OEM's regional organisation.
  • Comfortable building sales infrastructure in a growing company rather than inheriting it.
Reports to: Founders / CXO team Apply for this role →

Field Sales Executive

Mumbai · Bangalore · Hyderabad · Chennai · Delhi (multiple) · Full-time · Work from office

Hunt and close enterprise security, AI governance and data protection engagements in your territory.

Field Sales Executives own a territory, working as a pair with a Presales Consultant and alongside our OEM and distributor network, to win enterprise security, AI governance and data protection engagements.

What you'll do
  • Build and manage a qualified enterprise pipeline; meet monthly and quarterly targets.
  • Run consultative discovery with IT, security and business stakeholders; bring in Presales for validation, demos and PoCs.
  • Prepare proposals, negotiate and close; plan accounts jointly with OEM regional managers.
  • Keep the CRM current and give an honest weekly forecast.
You bring
  • 3–6 years selling IT infrastructure, cybersecurity or related solutions to enterprise accounts.
  • An active contact base of IT and security decision-makers in the territory.
  • Comfortable with long, multi-stakeholder enterprise cycles; disciplined with CRM and reporting.
Reports to: Sales Head Apply for this role →

Presales Consultant

Pune · Mumbai · Bangalore (multiple) · Full-time · Work from office

Be the trusted technical advisor in the sales cycle — discovery, demos, PoCs and right-sized architectures.

A technically strong Presales Consultant partners with Field Sales as the trusted technical advisor to prospective clients: capturing requirements, running demonstrations and Proofs of Concept, and designing right-sized architectures across our OEM portfolio.

What you'll do
  • Run technical discovery and translate findings into a high-level solution design.
  • Deliver tailored demonstrations (securing GenAI use, stopping phishing, preventing data leakage) and own PoC success criteria.
  • Design the architecture and bill of materials behind each proposal; handle technical objections.
You bring
  • 3–5 years in security presales or solutions engineering, or a delivery engineer moving into presales.
  • Working understanding of SASE/SSE and browser-isolation architectures, or the appetite to certify quickly.
  • Can whiteboard live, and move between an engineer-level conversation and a CISO-level pitch in the same day.
Reports to: Tech Lead (dotted line to city Sales) Apply for this role →

Delivery & Technology

Tech Lead

Pune · Full-time · Work from office

Own professional services, managed support and presales delivery nationally — the first hire in our delivery leadership.

The Tech Lead owns Professional Services, Support and Presales delivery nationally, reporting to the CTO — taking day-to-day ownership of client-facing technical delivery so the CTO can focus on strategy.

What you'll do
  • Set delivery standards, review methodologies and escalation processes across SASE/SSE, isolation, EDR and related stacks.
  • Chair service reviews and quarterly workshops with enterprise clients; be the senior technical escalation point.
  • Hire, mentor and manage engineers, support, customer success and presales as the team scales.
  • Maintain reference architectures, HLD/LLD templates and runbooks.
You bring
  • 8+ years in cybersecurity engineering or consulting, with 3+ years leading a delivery or professional-services team.
  • Hands-on depth in SASE/SSE (Netskope or equivalent) plus one adjacent domain — EDR, isolation, DLP or IAM.
  • Experience running structured reviews with CIOs/CISOs, including recovering a strained relationship.
  • NCSA/NCSI, CISSP or CCSP preferred.
Reports to: CTO Apply for this role →

Professional Services Engineer

Pune · Mumbai · Bangalore (multiple) · Full-time · client-facing, travel required

Design and execute enterprise migrations onto modern Zero Trust platforms — SASE/SSE, isolation, DLP.

A client-facing engineer who leads technical implementation, architecture and integration of edge security for enterprise clients: assessing environments, designing the deployment architecture and executing migrations from legacy proxies and MPLS to cloud-native SASE/SSE.

What you'll do
  • Lead discovery workshops; author HLD/LLD covering traffic steering, proxy chaining, SSL decryption policy and fallbacks.
  • Build, configure and validate tenants — SWG, CASB, ZTNA, DLP policies, remote browser isolation.
  • Integrate with identity providers and SIEM; design and run UAT; hand over to support with runbooks.
You bring
  • 3–6 years as a security engineer or consultant, ideally in a system integrator or MSP.
  • Hands-on deployment of at least one SASE/SSE or isolation platform; a second is a strong plus.
  • Working knowledge of proxies, GRE/IPsec tunnelling, TLS inspection and routing; agent deployment at scale via Intune, SCCM, JAMF or GPO.
Reports to: Tech Lead Apply for this role →

Support Engineer

Pune · Full-time · rostered, includes off-hours coverage

Monitor, triage and resolve across managed SASE/SSE and endpoint estates on a proper rota.

Our managed-support desk runs on a proper rota. This role handles day-to-day monitoring, ticket resolution and tenant hygiene across clients' SASE/SSE and endpoint security estates, including rostered off-hours coverage.

What you'll do
  • Monitor client tenants; triage, investigate and resolve L1/L2 tickets within SLA.
  • Perform health checks, policy reviews and configuration hygiene; flag drift to Professional Services.
  • Escalate with clear, well-documented findings; keep tickets and runbooks accurate.
You bring
  • 2–4 years in a SOC, NOC or security support role, ideally with cloud or SASE/SSE exposure.
  • Comfortable with shift and on-call work; clear written English for client-facing updates.
  • Networking fundamentals (DNS, proxy, VPN/tunnels) and at least one security platform. Vendor certification funded after joining.
Reports to: Tech Lead Apply for this role →

Customer Success Manager

Pune · Full-time · Work from office

Own account health on managed accounts — make the team's work visible and protect renewal.

The Customer Success Manager owns account health on managed-support and managed-services accounts: making the team's effort visible to the client, running structured reviews, and protecting renewal and expansion.

What you'll do
  • Run weekly and monthly service reporting on tickets, SLA performance and proactive work.
  • Prepare and chair QBRs and licence-utilisation workshops, including CIO-level audiences.
  • Track renewals, surface expansion signals to Sales, and be the client's primary non-technical contact.
You bring
  • 4–7 years in customer success, account management or service delivery at an IT services, MSP or SaaS company.
  • Experience running QBRs and reporting cadences with enterprise stakeholders.
  • Numerate enough to build and defend a utilisation and ROI narrative; diplomatic but candid.
Reports to: Tech Lead Apply for this role →

Operations

Sales Coordinator

Pune · Full-time · Work from office

Run the deal desk — quotes, deal registration, order processing and CRM hygiene.

The Sales Coordinator runs the deal desk and sales-operations backbone that lets the field team focus on selling.

What you'll do
  • Prepare quotes and proposals; manage OEM deal-registration submissions and renewals.
  • Process purchase and sales orders end to end with Purchase and Accounts.
  • Maintain CRM hygiene and produce weekly pipeline and forecast reports.
You bring
  • 2–4 years in sales operations, inside sales or order processing, ideally at an IT reseller, distributor or SI.
  • Precise with numbers and paperwork; comfortable with CRM tools and spreadsheets.
  • Organised, dependable, and a natural process-and-checklist person.
Reports to: Sales Head Apply for this role →

Purchase Executive

Pune · Full-time · Work from office

Manage purchasing from OEM partners and distributors; track licences and renewals.

The Purchase Executive manages purchasing from our OEM partners and distributors, ensuring the right licences and hardware land on time and on terms.

What you'll do
  • Manage purchase orders with OEMs and distributors; negotiate pricing and terms.
  • Maintain the master tracker of client licence entitlements, renewals and true-ups; flag renewals early.
  • Keep distributor relationships working and purchase records accurate.
You bring
  • 3–5 years in procurement or vendor management, ideally at an IT reseller, SI or distributor.
  • Working understanding of OEM/distributor pricing, deal registration and licensing models.
  • Strong Excel; a firm but professional negotiator.
Reports to: Operations / Finance Lead Apply for this role →

Accounts Executive

Pune · Full-time · Work from office

Run day-to-day accounts — invoicing, receivables, statutory filings and payroll coordination.

The Accounts Executive brings the day-to-day accounts function in-house as the team scales: invoicing, receivables, statutory filings and payroll coordination.

What you'll do
  • Raise invoices on time; follow up receivables and maintain an ageing report.
  • Prepare GST and statutory returns with external consultants; keep records compliant.
  • Coordinate monthly payroll inputs; prepare monthly MIS; process vendor payments.
You bring
  • 3–5 years in an accounts role at a services SME; working knowledge of GST and statutory compliance.
  • Proficient with Tally, Zoho Books or equivalent.
  • Accurate, deadline-driven and discreet.
Reports to: Finance Lead / Directors Apply for this role →

Process

How hiring runs.

01
APPLY

Application

CV and a short note on what you want to work on. We read both.

02
CONVERSATION

Intro call

A conversation about your background and what the role actually involves day to day.

03
TECHNICAL

Technical discussion

A working session on a real problem — no whiteboard trivia or algorithm puzzles.

04
OFFER

Decision

A clear yes or no with feedback either way, usually within a week.

Nothing open that fits?

We keep speculative applications on file and come back to them when roles open. Tell us what you're good at.

Email hr@xploreteq.com →