Associate Customer Engineer — Onboarding Specialist

Trantor Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Trantor Inc. in Bengaluru seeks an Onboarding Specialist to drive hands-on customer onboarding for Cloudflare deployments. You will guide initial DNS, SSL/TLS configurations, and verify traffic behavior to ensure a live deployment delivering value.

You will work with CEs, AEs, and Support, document steps rigorously, troubleshoot common issues, and ensure a clean hand-off to post-onboarding teams.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of Cloudflare product foundations including DNS/TLS/SSL, WAF rules, and Zero Trust.
• Experience with DNS changes, certificate errors, caching issues, and authentication failures.
• Hands-on with Cloudflare Dashboard, Terraform, and API-based configurations.
• Ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong documentation habits and ability to track onboarding milestones.
• Customer-facing experience in technical roles; cross-functional collaboration.
• Awareness of security standards and incident handling during onboarding.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end onboarding for assigned customers and guide initial settings.
• Lead structured onboarding calls; validate traffic behavior before going live.
• Troubleshoot DNS, SSL/TLS, caching, and auth issues during onboarding.
• Produce concise follow-ups, action items, and closeout documentation.
• Coordinate with CEs, AEs, Support, and Professional Services as needed.
• Maintain knowledge of products and leverage AI tools to streamline onboarding.

Skills

Cloudflare foundations

DNS/TLS/HTTP

WAF/OAuth/SAML/MFA

Terraform/API configs

Security events & HAR

REST APIs & Python/Bash

Customer-facing experience

Automation mindset

Multilingual (region)

PCI/HIPAA/SOC2 awareness

Tools

Cloudflare Dashboard

Terraform

OIDC/SAML integrations

Job description

Full time

Skills:

Onsite Rotational Shift

About Trantor

Trantor is a technology services company focused on outsourced product development and digital re-engineering. Leveraging our CaptiveCoE™ engagement model, we operate as a seamless extension of our client’s teams to provide rapid scalability with predictable budgets. Founded in 2012, Trantor has worked with customers across Tech, FinTech, Media & Cybersecurity industries. We have centers in the US, India, Canada, and Costa Rica. We are consistently rated as the #1 employer in the region with the ability to attract and retain technical talent. Our commitment to excellence and impactful results has translated to long-term relationships and value for our clients and solution partners.

Job Overview

Onboarding Specialist is the frontline technical owner of the customer onboarding journey. You are the hands-on engine that turns a provisioned account into a live, value-generating deployment. Working within the GTM organization and reporting to a Customer Engineering Leader, you will run structured onboarding engagements, guide customers to configure foundational settings, validate traffic behavior, and deliver standard guidance that accelerates customers to first value. You are not quota-carrying; your success is measured by onboarding velocity, time-to-value, customer satisfaction, and seamless hand-off to post-onboarding teams. You will spend your time executing approved runbooks, troubleshooting common issues, documenting everything with rigor, and collaborating with CEs, AEs, and Support to ensure no customer falls through the cracks.

Key Responsibilities

Onboarding Execution & Technical Enablement

Own the end-to-end technical onboarding experience for assigned customers post-provision. Lead structured onboarding calls, guide customers to configure initial Cloudflare settings (e.g., DNS records, SSL/TLS modes, WAF rules, Zero Trust policies), and validate that traffic is behaving as expected before the customer is declared live. Guide customers through approved implementation runbooks with precision, and exercise judgment to identify when an engagement has outgrown the runbook and requires escalation to a Customer Engineer, Support, or Professional Services. Troubleshoot common onboarding issues including DNS resolution failures, SSL/TLS certificate errors, caching misconfigurations, and authentication failures. Ensure every onboarding reaches a clean, documented close with the customer able to operate independently on the Cloudflare platform.

Customer Guidance & Communication

Deliver standardized customer guidance sessions that walk customers through the Cloudflare dashboard, DNS change procedures, SSL/TLS configuration, and product-specific best practices. Translate complex technical concepts into plain language that non-technical stakeholders can act on, and maintain a calm, patient presence when customers are frustrated or behind schedule. Set clear agendas for every call, provide concise written summaries, and document next steps so that customers and internal teams always know who owns what.

Process & Operational Excellence

Maintain impeccable documentation hygiene across all customer engagements using AI supported tools. Update CRM/Salesforce records after every touchpoint, produce call follow-ups and action-item lists, and track milestones within onboarding projects to ensure no step is skipped and no deadline is missed. Juggle a portfolio of concurrent onboarding customers with strong time management, prioritizing by committed timelines and customer urgency. Flag blockers early, manage expectations proactively, and treat the onboarding pipeline as a system you continuously optimize.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Escalation Management

Act as the customer’s voice inside Cloudflare during onboarding. Surface expansion opportunities (new products, additional seats, higher tiers) to CEs and AEs with enough context for them to act. Route complex technical issues, architectural questions, and break/fix escalations to the appropriate Support or Customer Engineering teams with clear, complete background documentation. Partner smoothly with adjacent teams without letting the customer feel handed off; you are the single point of accountability until onboarding is complete.

Technical Breadth & Continuous Development

Build and maintain working knowledge across Cloudflare’s product foundations—Application Security, CDN, Zero Trust/SASE, and Network Services—at a depth appropriate to onboarding scenarios. Be familiar with and leverage AI technology available to you to create new and innovative tools to support and increase your onboarding activities. Stay current on Cloudflare product releases, feature roadmaps, and relevant certifications. Invest in expanding your technical foundation over time, treating each onboarding as a learning opportunity and engaging feedback from peers and leaders to improve with every customer.

Mandatory Skills

• Cloudflare product foundations: working knowledge of Application Security, CDN, Zero Trust/SASE, and Network Services.
• Networking fundamentals: understanding of DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP/HTTPS, CIDR, NAT, and BGP.
• Web security basics: familiarity with OWASP, WAF rules, OAuth, SAML, MFA, and Zero Trust principles.
• Configuration & integration: hands-on experience with the Cloudflare Dashboard, and comfort with Terraform, API-based configurations, or identity providers such as Okta, Azure AD, and SAML/OIDC integrations.
• Observability: ability to read and interpret Security Events, Logs, cURL outputs, and HAR files; awareness of common causes of 5xx/4xx errors post-onboarding.
• Scripting & APIs: ability to read and debug REST API calls; basic proficiency with Python and Bash.
• Experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Technical Support, Implementation Specialist, Onboarding Engineer, Junior Sales/Systems Engineer, or NOC/SOC analyst—or equivalent hands-on technical experience managing customer deployments. (Years of experience will vary based on Associate-level expectations.)

Good-to-Have Skills

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, or ISO 27001 is a plus.
• Cloudflare Certifications: Existing Cloudflare certifications (e.g., Cloudflare Fundamentals, Cloudflare for Teams, or Cloudflare for Developers).
• Prior Cloudflare Experience: Direct experience onboarding or administering Cloudflare in a production environment.
• Automation Mindset: Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Pulumi) or CI/CD pipelines for configuration management.
• AI-Augmented Workflow: Comfort using AI assistants, LLM-based tools, or scripting to accelerate routine onboarding tasks, log analysis, or documentation.
• Multilingual: Proficiency in languages relevant to the hiring region’s customer base.