Senior Information Security Engineer

Smart Recruiters is the Recruiting AI Company that transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. Built for global scale, Smart Recruiters, an SAP company, delivers an AI-powered hiring platform that automates and optimizes the entire talent acquisition process, ensuring faster and smarter hiring decisions. More than 4,000 companies, including Amazon, Visa, and McDonald’s, rely on Smart Recruiters to build winning teams.

In 2025, Smart Recruiters joined SAP, the global leader in enterprise applications. Together, Smart Recruiters and SAP are accelerating the reinvention of hiring by combining cutting‑edge AI innovation with the scale, reach, and resources of SAP’s ecosystem.

At Smart Recruiters, we are a values-driven, globally focused tech company with strong financial backing and a bold vision for the future of work. We commit and dig deep, embracing challenges with grit, curiosity, and a drive for excellence. We foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, where trust and determination bring us together. Because together, we will win.

Recognized by Fosway Industry Analysts as a strategic leader in recruitment technology for three consecutive years, and awarded by Comparably as a top company for Women, Perks and Benefits, Work-Life Balance, Happiness, Compensation, Diversity, and Culture - we take pride in creating a place where everyone can thrive. Our remote-friendly culture, competitive salaries, and strong internal mobility ensure that high performers have meaningful growth opportunities in an environment built on respect and empowerment.

Smart Recruiters is looking for a Senior Information Security Engineer to join the Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) team. This role is critical to ensuring that Smart Recruiters' applications, systems, and processes remain compliant with industry standards and regulatory requirements, including ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 42001, SOC 2 Type II, Cyber Essentials, GDPR, and the EU AI Act.

The successful candidate will combine strong GRC expertise with a technical, engineering mindset - someone who can drive compliance programmes across multiple frameworks while also stepping into complex technical topics such as business continuity, AI security, and cloud compliance. Critically, this is not a purely audit-focused role; we need someone who can dig into technical details, assess security architectures, support forensic investigations, build automation to replace manual processes, and provide hands‑on guidance to engineering and security teams.

A core part of this role is identifying opportunities to engineer scalable, repeatable solutions, from compliance evidence collection to policy enforcement, rather than relying on manual effort.

• Identify manual, repetitive GRC processes and design automation blueprints to streamline them, including evidence collection, control monitoring, access reviews, policy enforcement checks, and compliance reporting
• Build and maintain automated workflows using compliance platforms, scripting, or integration tools to reduce manual effort and improve audit‑readiness
• Develop reusable templates, playbooks, and standardised blueprints for recurring GRC activities (e.g., vendor assessments, internal audits, risk reviews) to ensure consistency and scalability.
• Collaborate with engineering and IT teams to integrate security and compliance checks into existing tool chains and CI/CD pipelines where applicable
• Continuously evaluate and improve GRC tooling, data flows, and reporting to drive operational efficiency across the team
• Manage stakeholder expectations and partner with internal teams to ensure effective management of IT risks and compliance obligations
• Maintain regional and local stakeholder relationships, meeting schedules, minutes, and reports.
• Support the maintenance of the SOC 2 Type II framework, including evidence collection, control testing coordination, and audit support
• Effectively manage ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 audit life cycles and coordinate with stakeholders on ISMS and BCMS improvements
• Support the maintenance and continuous improvement of the ISO 42001 (AI…