Security Control Assurance Lead

Charlotte, United States

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Be Part Of A High-Performing Team

Join a cybersecurity organization transforming the way technology risk and control assurance are managed across core systems and digital environments. The team is moving away from manual, point-in-time compliance exercises toward a more engineering-driven model where controls can be codified, integrated, automatically tested, and continuously monitored.

This position sits at the intersection of cybersecurity engineering, GRC, data protection, and control assurance
. It is an opportunity to build the technical foundation that allows security assurance to operate as a live signal rather than an annual audit exercise.

What's In Store For You

• Hybrid Charlotte opportunity with approximately three days onsite each week.
• Initial six-month engagement with potential for long-term conversion.
• Significant ownership over GRC engineering and continuous-assurance capabilities.
• Opportunity to build control-as-code, policy-as-code, automated evidence collection, and continuous controls monitoring capabilities.
• Direct partnership with cybersecurity, engineering, IT, Data Governance, Legal, and other business stakeholders.
• Opportunity to materially reduce manual control-testing effort while strengthening visibility into cybersecurity and data risk.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Design and mature a risk-based security control assurance program across critical systems and technology environments.
• Engineer automated control testing and evidence-collection capabilities using scripting, APIs, integrations, and security/GRC platforms.
• Establish continuous controls monitoring so failures and control deviations surface closer to real time.
• Develop repeatable technical testing procedures for security, privacy, and data-protection controls.
• Evaluate controls against frameworks and regulations including NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CCPA/CPRA, and GDPR.
• Connect security, IT, cloud, data, and GRC platforms to centralize control evidence, findings, and remediation information.
• Continuously assess controls involving access management, encryption, DLP, retention, logging, and sensitive-data protection.
• Automate deficiency intake, ownership assignment, remediation workflows, and control-health reporting.
• Partner with engineering teams to incorporate security-control validation into CI/CD pipelines, change management, and SDLC processes.
• Define metrics around control coverage, automation percentage, failures, remediation time, and overall control effectiveness.

Do You Have the Expertise to Lead in Security Control Assurance Engineering?

• 8+ years of experience across cybersecurity assurance, security engineering, GRC, security controls, or closely related disciplines.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience automating security-control testing and/or evidence collection.
• Working scripting or programming capability using Python, Rust, Ruby, or a comparable language.
• Hands-on experience connecting enterprise or security platforms through APIs.
• Experience with GRC platforms and/or continuous controls monitoring technologies.
• Practical knowledge of control-as-code and policy-as-code concepts.
• Applied experience with NIST CSF and ISO 27001.
• Understanding of CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and related data-protection requirements.
• Familiarity with AWS and/or GCP security, logging, monitoring, or native control services.
• Strong understanding of security controls around identity/access, encryption, DLP, retention, and sensitive data.
• Ability to communicate effectively with cybersecurity engineers, technology teams, governance stakeholders, Legal, and senior leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security, or a related discipline.
• CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, or similar security/risk certification strongly preferred.