Compliance Enablement Technical Program Manager

Sophos; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sophos is seeking a Technical Program Manager to own the compliance automation within the Trust and Assurance team. Lead technical controls analyses, embed compliance into engineering workflows, and partner with AI-enabled capabilities to strengthen the detection and response platform.

Ideal candidates bring 4+ years in GRC or security programs, strong project management, and hands-on experience with frameworks like NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or FedRAMP, plus familiarity with cloud infra and

Qualifications

• 4+ years in GRC, compliance, or a technical role supporting cybersecurity programs.
• Strong program and project management skills delivering across multiple teams.
• Solid knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks (NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, SOC 2, FedRAMP).
• Comfort reasoning about cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data flows.
• Ability to lead technical discussions with engineers and SMEs.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the team’s technical authority.
• Manage compliance stack and monitoring across the stack.
• Translate controls into automated checks and reduce manual reviews.
• Embed compliance into engineering workflows.
• Drive delivery and keep stakeholders aligned.
• Collaborate with AI-enabled tooling to strengthen assurance.

Skills

GRC leadership

Program management

Cybersecurity frameworks

Cloud familiarity

Technical SME

AI in compliance

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, IT, CS, or related

Tools

LogicGate

ServiceNow

Drata

Job description

About Us

Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.

Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.

Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

Role Summary

We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to serve as the technical subject-matter expert (SME) for the Trust and Assurance team. This role will be responsible for leading the technical side of the compliance automation function of the team. A core part of the role is analyzing controls within the GRC platform to ensure they are accurate, meet framework requirements, and pull the necessary evidence to prove effectiveness. You will also partner with engineering teams to embed compliance into their workflows from the start. Strong compliance framework knowledge, solid program-management skills, and experience with AI technology are essential.

What You Will Do

• Serve as the team’s technical authority.
• Manage compliance stack.
• Establish control monitoring. Translate technical controls into automated, continuous checks, expanding monitoring coverage across the compliance stack and replacing manual reviews with ongoing monitoring.
• Reduce audit burden.
• Embed compliance into engineering.
• Drive delivery and keep stakeholders aligned.

What You Will Bring

• 4+ years in GRC, compliance, or a technical role supporting cybersecurity programs, including leading programs and guiding or mentoring others.
• Strong program and project management skills, with a track record of delivering across multiple teams.
• Solid knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks (NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and/or FedRAMP) and hands‑on audit experience.
• Enough technical depth to be the team’s technical point of contact: comfortable reasoning about cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP), APIs, and data flows, and interpreting technical work with AI assistance, even if you do not write code.
• Proven ability to lead technical discussions with engineers and subject‑matter experts and ask the right questions to understand how controls and systems work.
• Hands‑on experience with a GRC or compliance‑automation platform (e.g., LogicGate, ServiceNow, Drata), and comfort using AI tools in compliance workflows.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to translate between compliance and engineering for both technical and leadership audiences.
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Desired Skills:

• Ability to write code or scripts (e.g., Python) to build automation directly.
• Experience building AI/ML‑powered or agentic applications, and with API integrations, CI/CD pipelines, or deploying production‑grade services.
• Technical background in systems administration, software engineering, cloud security, or security engineering.
• Prior experience as a technical SME, or as a bridge between compliance and engineering teams.
• Experience leading a SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, or NIST 800-53 audit end‑to‑end, and familiarity with OSCAL or other compliance‑automation tooling.
• Familiarity with security monitoring tools (e.g., Tenable, Splunk), Git, and cloud infrastructure automation tooling (e.g., Terraform, Puppet, Jenkins).
• Experience in SaaS, GovCloud, FinTech, or other highly regulated environments.
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCSP, CCSK, or ISO 27001 Lead Auditor.

In Canada, the basesalary for this role ranges from $109,000 to $181,000. In addition to base salary, we offer additional compensation including bonus eligibility and a comprehensive benefits package. Acandidate’s specific pay within this range will depend on a variety of factors, including job‑related skills, training, location, experience, relevant education, certifications, and otherbusiness and organizational needs.

What’s Great About Sophos?

• Sophos operates a remote‑first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.
• Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
• Employee‑led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
• Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
• Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
• Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
• Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
• Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing

Our Commitment To You

We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.

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