
Sr. Security Engineer
- Portland, OR
- Permanent
- Full-time
The Security Compliance Engineer/Sr Engineer leads and assists day-to-day of the cyber security compliance program. They must understand common security compliance frameworks ( E.g. HIPAA, NIST, ISO, SOC2 etc), Systems, GRC tools, and Security Risk Management processes. The Sr SE will help mentor our team members by taking responsibility for the design, implementation, and maintenance of systems, and for proactively identifying and mitigating security risks across an organization's infrastructure and applications.Responsibilities:
- Plans and leads policy and compliance development reviews; proposes security solutions and strategy changes
- Leads and conducts security audits & assessments, collaborates to develop mitigation plans and monitors remediation efforts
- Leads policy and compliance reviews and develops documentation updates
- Builds procedures to standardize processes and ensures continuous improvement
- Collaborates with product teams and developers to respond to security questionnaires as needed
- Identifies blind spots in our security posture and recommends security strategy and tools/solutions
- Works with legal, IT, product, and engineering teams to ensure alignment on security and compliance initiatives
- Manages planning and implementation of security compliance solutions with minimal input from leadership and staying within approved project scope, schedule and budget
- Promotes security awareness and best practices within the organization
- Prepares reports for management and regulatory bodies
- Exhibits strong business acumen, communications skills and customer-focused behaviors
- Contribute to creation of playbooks, standard operating procedures, and standard operating procedures
- 4-10 years experience combined in GRC, Risk Management, Privacy
- Possesses a broad set of both security and compliance skills based on industry frameworks
- Experience managing security compliance programs such as SOC2 Type2, HIPAA, PCI
- Experience with GRC tools such as One Trust, Drata etc to identify risks, track remediations and build reports
- Understanding of risk and control frameworks and ability to contextualize them for the business
- Demonstrates strong problem solving skills and capable of working independently
- Consistently contributes towards successes and drives team goals
- Capable of filling in for leadership on a temporary basis
- Security industry certifications are preferred but not required
- Excellent oral, written and presentation skills
- Ability to influence outcomes without direct authority
- A proven track record of complex problem solving and cultivating strong collaboration across organizational boundaries
- A reliable self-starter who makes sound, well-informed and objective decisions and works independently with the ability to manage complex situations and solve problems
- Portland, Oregon