Senior Technology Risk & Audit Specialist

Picus Security Inc.; Çankaya; Remote; TRY 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Picus Security, a leader in exposure validation, seeks a Senior Technology Risk & Audit Specialist. The role strengthens governance, risk, and compliance at scale, owning global certification programs and advising engineering teams across a cloud-native, AI-driven platform.

You will plan risk-based IT audits, drive continuous control improvements, manage audit findings, and oversee global compliance programs including ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, NIST CSF, CSA STAR.

Qualifications

• 6+ years hands-on IT audit, information security, risk and compliance in SaaS/cloud environments.
• Experience evaluating software engineering processes from an audit perspective (CI/CD, SBOM governance).
• Strong understanding of cloud infra, IAM, SIEM, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on ISO/IEC 27001/27701, SOC 2 Type 2, and NIST frameworks experience.
• Ability to translate standards into scalable processes that enable innovation.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute risk-based IT and internal audits focusing on secure SDLC, cloud infra, and AI security.
• Evaluate and enhance governance controls; drive continuous improvement.
• Manage audit findings end-to-end with sustainable remediation.
• Lead global compliance programs (ISO/IEC 27001, 22301, 27701, 20000-1, SOC 2, NIST CSF, CSA STAR).
• Support Third-Party Risk Management through SaaS security assessments and due diligence.

Skills

IT audit

risk & compliance management

communication & influence

English proficiency

regulatory knowledge

cloud-native / SaaS security

strategic execution

Education

CISA

CISM

CRISC

Tools

ISO 27001

SOC 2 Type 2

NIST CSF

CSA STAR

Job description

About The Role

Most traditional auditor roles ask you to prove a company is secure at least once a year. At Picus, continuous security validation is our product.

We are seeking a Senior Technology Risk & Audit Specialist to strengthen our security governance, risk, and compliance capabilities at scale. In this role, you will run assurance the way our customers run security: continuously, with evidence, and side-by-side dominantly with engineering teams. You will own our global certification programs, act as a strategic advisor to our technology teams, and help govern the AI agents at the heart of our platform. Beyond audit execution, you will act as a strategic advisor to business and technology teams, shaping scalable and risk-aware processes in a cloud-native and AI-driven environment. We want you to be the person teams come to before they build, not after.

What You Bring

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in IT audit, information security, risk and compliance management, preferably within a SaaS, cloud-native, or fast-growing technology environment.
• Product Security & Secure SDLC: Proven ability to evaluate software engineering processes from an audit and assurance perspective, covering CI/CD pipeline controls, secure development practices, vulnerability management, software supply chain security, and SBOM governance.
• Technical Fluency: You understand how cloud infrastructure, IAM, SIEM, and CI/CD pipelines actually work, allowing you to collaborate effectively with engineers in their own language.
• Framework Expertise: Deep, hands-on experience with ISO/IEC standards (particularly 27001 and 27701), SOC 2 Type 2 and NIST frameworks, including preparation, audit coordination, and evidence management.
• Strategic Execution: The ability to turn international standards into practical, scalable processes that enable innovation rather than slowing it down.
• Regulatory Knowledge: Practical understanding of international privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, KVKK, CCPA) and third-party risk management (TPRM) practices.
• Communication & Influence: Clear written and spoken English. You can write policies that are easy to understand and advise cross-functional stakeholders, driving control improvements without relying purely on formal authority.
• ISO/IEC 27001, 22301, 27701, 20000-1 and 42001 LA certifications (nice to have),
• ISACA certifications such as CISA (most preferred), CISM, or CRISC, AAIA, AAISM, or AAIR (nice to have),
• Hands-on experience with SOC 2, NIST, and CSA STAR reporting frameworks (nice to have),
• Last but not least, we expect you to bring the team spirit that we value the most!

What You'll Do

• Plan and execute risk-based IT and internal audits, with a strong focus on secure SDLC, software engineering processes, cloud infrastructure, and AI security domains,
• Evaluate and enhance the effectiveness of security and governance controls, driving continuous improvement across policies and processes,
• Manage audit and security vulnerability findings end-to-end, ensuring sustainable remediation and measurable control improvements,
• Lead and oversee global compliance programs (ISO/IEC 27001, 22301, 27701, 20000-1, SOC 2, NIST CSF, CSA STAR) to maintain continuous audit readiness,
• Actively support the Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) program by participating in SaaS security assessments and vendor due diligence,
• Define and track key audit and compliance metrics, reporting insights to leadership and relevant stakeholders,
• Assess the risk and privacy impact of emerging technologies (AI, ML, and automation), guiding engineering teams on secure adoption practices.

About Picus

Picus Security is an exposure validation company. One platform proves what attackers can exploit and what your defenses stop, turning every exposure into a defensible decision, autonomously and at the machine speed today's AI threats demand.

Picus validates attack surfaces, exposures, and security controls as one continuous loop: validate, decide, fix, re-validate. Instead of ranking findings by severity score, Picus proves which exposures are genuinely exploitable in your environment, including the business-critical, restricted, and air-gapped assets a live exploit can never safely touch, so teams act on what truly matters and resolve each exposure into a clear call to patch, mitigate, monitor, or accept with evidence.

The Picus Platform spans Autonomous Penetration Testing, Exposure Validation, and Breach and Attack Simulation, unified by Picus Swarm, a swarm of AI agents that runs the whole validation loop continuously. It reaches across on-prem, hybrid cloud, and endpoint environments, with 75+ integrations that ingest from scanners like Tenable and Wiz and operationalize through your EDR, SIEM, firewall, and ticketing tools.

The pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation, Picus proves and improves the security controls you already own, doubling control effectiveness within three months. Picus holds a 95% recommendation rate, 4.9 on G2, and 4.8 on Gartner Peer Insights, and is the #1 Leader on Frost Radar for Automated Security Validation.

Working at Picus

Fascinating work - a chance to shape and lead an exciting, fast-growing cybersecurity segment. Security Validation is a concept that helps organizations evaluate their security posture in a continuous, automated, and repeatable way. This approach allows for the identification of imminent threats, provides recommended actions, and produces valuable metrics about cyber-risk levels.

Unlimited opportunity! We are growing. At Picus, you'll be provided with as much responsibility as you can handle - new career development opportunities constantly arise given our rate of growth.

Global exposure - Get a lot of experience working not only in a fast-growing startup but also interacting with customers all around the world.

Be part of a global remote team that is taking on Exposure Validation and a growing market segment.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, national origin, religious belief, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by International law. Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete reference and identity checks in line with local labor laws and as per the Company’s employment policy.

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We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.