Cloud GRC Engineer

Clearance Required: US Citizen with active Public Trust or Top Secret clearance (Secret clearance will take too long for someone to start according to client), Audit & Assessment Leadership

• Own the organization’s full audit and assessment calendar, ongoing/continuous control assessments, financial and IT-financial audits, internal controls testing, and security compliance audits (e.g., SOC 1 Type II). Serving as the primary point of contact for external auditors and assessors.
• Lead recurring meetings and working sessions with the client, auditors, and assessors across the audit lifecycle: kickoffs, evidence walkthroughs, interviews, findings reviews, and status updates. Represents the organization’s control environment directly to external stakeholders.
• Provide audit support across the full assessment portfolio, including penetration testing, red/purple/white team exercises, and periodic CISA high-value-asset assessments, incorporating all findings into the risk register and remediation lifecycle.
• Support new system authorization (ATO) and periodic reauthorization efforts, coordinating required documentation and evidence on a recurring cycle.

Security Documentation & Control Ownership

• Own ongoing maintenance of the System Security Plan (SSP): control implementation updates, system and technical descriptions, and review of inherited/tailored controls against the NIST 800-53 baseline. Validating control descriptions against the actual cloud architecture and configuration, not just the paper record.
• Lead the annual review and executive sign-off cycle for core security documentation and review the organization’s control catalog for accuracy against how the environment is built and configured.

Continuity & Resilience Planning

• Own the annual review, update, and test cycle for business continuity and resilience documentation: business impact analysis, contingency plans, disaster recovery plans, and incident response plans. Grounded in the actual failover, backup, and recovery architecture of the cloud environment, not generic templates.

Privacy

• Lead recurring privacy impact/threshold assessments in coordination with the privacy function, including technical review of how architecture handles the data in scope.

Metrics, Reporting & Automation

• Own recurring compliance reporting deliverables: inventory reports, compliance scorecards, SLA and audit-performance metrics, progress reports, and build the automation that generates them directly from the cloud environment (native services, APIs, infrastructure-as-code state) rather than manual collection.
• Design, build, and maintain automated evidence-collection and continuous-monitoring pipelines using native cloud services and scripting/IaC, reducing manual, screenshot-based collection across the full audit and reporting calendar above.
• Identify the highest-value recurring manual processes across audit, documentation, and reporting work, and personally build the automation to address them. This role is expected to build, not just spec and hand off.

Governance & Stakeholder Coordination

• Maintain governance documents that codify the organization’s security and audit-support processes.
• Serve as the point of contact for ad hoc security and privacy inquiries and impact-analysis requests from system and business owners.
• Lead recurring coordination meetings with system owners, risk management, and compliance stakeholders to maintain shared visibility into audit status, findings, and remediation.

Some sort of Audit experience is preferred, * 10+ years of combined experience across cloud engineering and GRC/IT audit/information security compliance, with genuine hands-on depth in both

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information systems, or a related field preferred; equivalent professional experience accepted in lieu of a degree.
• Demonstrated experience building or maintaining cloud infrastructure and automation (IaC, scripting, cloud-native tooling) in a production environment.
• Demonstrated experience serving as the primary point of contact between technical teams and external auditors or assessors, and owning security documentation (e.g., SSP) and control implementation.
• Experience managing findings and remediation from audits, penetration testing, or red/white team engagements through to closure.
• A portfolio or concrete example of a manual compliance or reporting process the candidate personally automated is a strong plus. Frameworks: NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, A-123, FISMA, and SOC 1/2 Type 2.
• Relevant certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Security, CISSP, CISA, CRISC, or CGRC.
• Candidate must demonstrate AWS experience proficiency