Sr. Security Assurance Engineer

Job Title:

Senior Security Engineer, GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance)

Organizational Reporting:

Director, Security Assurance

Function/Dept:

Business Technology / Security

Purpose of the Job

As members of 6sense's Security department, the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) team aligns Security with business objectives while managing risks and meeting industry standards, regulations and contractual obligations. GRC enforces governance, implements risk management strategies, and ensures compliance through operating as the second line of defense.

This role is the engineering capability behind that mission. Rather than testing controls after the fact, this engineer builds the systems that test them continuously. The expectation is that controls are monitored as code, technical evidence is produced automatically from AWS and other source systems, control owners can self-serve their own evidence without a GRC ticket, and AI is used as core infrastructure across GRC workflows rather than as an experiment. Audit readiness should be a byproduct of the running system, not a project.

Job Description

Responsibilities & Accountabilities

All responsibilities of GRC Security Engineer III, and;

Design, build, and own automated security control monitoring; write production-quality code (e.g., Python) under version control, peer review, and CI/CD, and treat control logic as a maintained software asset rather than a documented procedure

Convert the control library from periodic, sample-based manual testing to continuous control monitoring (CCM): define the technical signal for each control, its test frequency, pass/fail thresholds, and alerting and escalation path

Engineer self-service technical evidence collection in AWS using native services (Config, Security Hub, CloudTrail, Organizations/SCPs, IAM Access Analyzer, Systems Manager, EventBridge, Lambda, Athena/S3, CloudWatch), so control owners and auditors retrieve current evidence on demand without GRC acting as an intermediary

Eliminate manual, screenshot-based, and ticket-driven evidence collection; retire manual test procedures as automated equivalents come online and document the transition so auditors can rely on it

Redesign GRC processes to be AI-native; apply LLMs and agentic workflows to evidence review, control mapping, gap analysis, security questionnaire and customer due diligence response, policy and procedure drafting, and risk assessment triage, with explicit human-in-the-loop review, guardrails, and output validation

Maintain a single normalized control library crosswalked across frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, SOX, GDPR, NIST) so that one automated test satisfies multiple obligations

Build the control-failure pipeline end to end: automated detection, enrichment, ticket creation, owner routing, SLA tracking, remediation verification, and closure, including exception and risk acceptance handling where remediation is not viable

Partner with Platform Engineering, DevOps, and IT to shift controls left into preventive guardrails: service control policies, AWS Config conformance packs, policy-as-code in CI/CD, and secure-by-default infrastructure patterns

Instrument control health reporting: automation coverage, evidence freshness, control failure rates, mean time to remediate, and audit-readiness posture, surfaced in dashboards consumable by Security leadership and control owners

Lead internal and external audit engagements with automated evidence as the primary artifact; defend automated test design, sampling logic, and the completeness and accuracy of system-generated evidence to auditors and assessors

Oversee and execute complex control tests and third-party and operational security risk assessments, using tooling and AI-assisted analysis to increase coverage and reduce cycle time, and communicate results across multiple audiences with varying levels of sensitivity

Develop issue and risk treatment plans with owners and validate remediation through automated re-testing rather than manual confirmation

Set the technical bar for the team: peer review other GRC Engineers' automation, queries, and test logic, and provide feedback, guidance, and enablement so automation ownership is distributed rather than siloed

Provide GRC technology administration, including integrations, API-based data flows, and user training and enablement

Mature security governance, training and awareness programs, using automation to target and measure them

Improve GRC handbook pages, procedures, playbooks, and technical design documentation, and maintain security program controlled documents

Execute on quarterly individual Key Results that support team Objectives (OKRs)

Key Outcomes (First 12 Months)

A defined and measurable share of the control library operating under continuous monitoring, with a credible quarter-over-quarter plan to expand coverage

Technical evidence for in-scope AWS controls generated automatically and retrievable without GRC involvement

A documented reduction in audit preparation effort and evidence request turnaround time versus the prior audit cycle

At least one materially redesigned, AI-native GRC process replacing a previously manual workflow, with measured quality and throughput results

Control failures detected by the monitoring system rather than discovered during audit or assessment

Performance Measurement

Increases the percentage of controls under automated, continuous monitoring and reduces the percentage tested manually

Increases the percentage of technical evidence collected without human intervention and maintains evidence freshness against defined SLAs

Reduces mean time to detect and mean time to remediate control failures

Reduces audit and assessment preparation hours and evidence request turnaround time

Ships maintainable, reviewed, version-controlled code and infrastructure with low operational failure and false-positive rates

Demonstrates measurable adoption of self-service evidence by control owners outside of GRC

Applies AI to GRC workflows with measured accuracy, appropriate review controls, and documented decisions on where AI is and is not relied upon

Maintains up-to-date knowledge of 6sense's product, environment, systems and architecture

Drives remediation of security risks and threats

Adheres to strict deadlines and SLAs

Participates in creation of, and executes on, milestones associated with major security projects

Develops and maintains up-to-date handbook pages, runbooks, workflows, dashboards, and technical design documentation for everything they own

Provides project status updates on a weekly basis

Actively prepares for weekly 1:1s with Manager and monthly skip levels

Administers GRC technology and its integrations

Person Specification

Educational and Experience Requirements

5+ years of experience being part of a GRC or similar team

2+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining automation, including proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (Python preferred) and comfort working in Git, code review, and CI/CD

Demonstrated hands-on AWS experience relevant to control monitoring and evidence generation: Config, Security Hub, CloudTrail, IAM, Organizations and SCPs, Lambda, EventBridge, S3/Athena, CloudWatch

Experience retrieving, normalizing, and reconciling data across systems via APIs and SQL, and reasoning about the completeness and accuracy of that data

Practical experience applying LLMs or AI agents to real workflows, including prompt and workflow design, output evaluation, and appropriate human review and guardrails

Experience with security tools and cloud environments (e.g., GRC and compliance automation platforms, vulnerability scanners, SIEM, SOAR, AWS)

Experience with industry frameworks, regulations and standards, such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, PCI, SOX, NIST, etc.

Ability to determine what constitutes sufficient audit evidence and to defend automated control testing and system-generated evidence to auditors

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and policy-as-code (OPA/Rego, AWS Config custom rules, cfn-guard, or similar)

Experience implementing or operating continuous control monitoring at scale in a SaaS or multi-account cloud environment

Experience integrating GRC or compliance automation platforms via API rather than through the UI

Experience building internal self-service tooling used by engineers or control owners

Big 4 (KPMG, Deloitte, PwC, EY) or similar experience

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Relevant industry certifications, such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, or CCSK/CCSP, are highly desirable

Competencies and Behaviors

Automation-first by default; treats a recurring manual GRC task as an engineering problem, not a staffing problem

Thinks like a builder and operates like an auditor: writes code that is maintainable and monitored, and control logic that is defensible and evidenced

Uses AI aggressively but skeptically; leans on it for leverage while validating output and being explicit about where human judgment is required

Designs for self-service so that GRC is not a bottleneck between control owners and their own evidence

Evangelizes security best practices

Works independently to maintain and improve overall company security posture

Collaborates with cross-functional teams, particularly engineering and platform teams, and earns credibility with them technically

Translates control intent and technical requirements into actionable, timebound, testable requests

Drives projects and tasks to completion by following up on questions, deadlines, and requests for input

Maintains accuracy of information

Proactive prioritization and escalation to management

Strong communication skills, including verbal, written, and presentation skills, and the ability to explain automated control design to both engineers and auditors

Base Salary Range: $141,230.25 - $180,137.70. The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors, including but not limited to work location and experience. The base salary is one component of 6sense’s total compensation package for this position. Other compensation may include a bonus program or commission plan, and stock options if approved by 6sense’s board. In addition, 6sense provides a variety of benefits, including generous health insurance coverage, life, and disability insurance, a 401K employer matching program, paid holidays, self-care days, and paid time off (PTO). #Li-remote

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