Manager, Information Security

Synack; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Synack is seeking an Information Security Compliance Manager with deep expertise in ISO, SOC, CMMC and FedRAMP. You will work with Product, Engineering and Operations to ensure proper security controls and monitoring are applied.

This role requires U.S. citizenship due to federal contract requirements. You’ll automate SSPs, POAMs, and align AI/agentic security with NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001 while guiding DevSecOps across Synack hosted services.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of IT Security Strategy, Risk Management, IT Audit and Compliance experience.
• Experience with security regulations, standards and frameworks including ISO27000, ISO42001, OWASP, SOC2, GDPR, CMMC, FedRAMP, and NIST.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with ability to convey risk to different audiences.

Responsibilities

• Automate generation of SSPs and related artifacts.
• Develop and maintain automated Plans of Action and Milestones (POAMs).
• Advance automation and AI adoption within Synack's Information Security operations.
• Own inventory and risk assessments of AI/agentic systems in line with NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001.
• Build automated evidence collection and control-drift around security controls.
• Communicate with stakeholders on security compliance and track remediation tasks.
• Codify security controls into IaC guardrails, CNAPP policies, and CI/CD checks.
• Collaborate with Project Managers and Software Engineers to enforce DevSecOps policies.

Skills

IT security strategy

Risk management

IT audit

Compliance

Python

Terraform

CI/CD

GRC tools

Datadog

Stackdriver

Azure Sentinel

SOAR

SIEM query languages

CNAPP

SDLC

Secrets management

NIST

ISO27000

ISO42001

OWASP

SOC2

GDPR

CMMC

FedRAMP

Tools

Python

Terraform

CI/CD tools

Job description

NetSPI+Synack is a leader in offensive security, combining elite human expertise with agentic AI to help organizations identify, validate, prioritize, and remediate exploitable risk across their entire attack surface. Its platform delivers expert-validated testing in depth, continuously, or on demand, from pre-production code to live production environments, so security teams can separate vulnerability noise from real risk, including the growing threat of AI-driven attacks. With global reach and more than 13 million hours of real-world offensive testing experience, NetSPI+Synack serves many of the world's largest enterprises and government organizations with one ambition: nothing left to exploit.

We are looking for individuals with a collaborative, innovative, and customer-first mindset to join our team. Learn more about our award-winning workplace culture and get to know our A-Team at andWe are looking for a talented Information Security Compliance Manager with deep expertise in ISO, SOC, CMMC and FedRAMP compliance. You will work closely with the Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to ensure proper security controls and monitoring are applied. Sounds interesting? Keep reading…

Please note that due to federal government contract requirements, we can only hire a citizen of the United States into this role.

Here’s what you’ll do

• Automate generation of System Security Plans (SSP), including Security Concept of Operations, Risk Management Matrix, Security Control Traceability Matrix, and conduct Security Impact Analysis (SIA) on major system changes.
• Develop and maintain automated Plans of Action and Milestones (POAMs).
• Contribute to the adoption and implementation of automation and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within Synack's Information Security operations.
• Own the inventory and risk assessments of AI/agentic systems used across Synack, aligned to NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001, including data handling, model and agent change control, non-human identity and credential scoping.
• Build and own automated evidence collection and control-drift around security controls.
• Communicate regularly with stakeholders on security compliance issues aligning to CIS and NIST standards, track mitigation/remediation tasks, and assisting in generation of reports and metrics.
• Codify security controls into IaC guardrails, CNAPP policies, and CI/CD checks to prevent risks at commit and deploy time.
• Working with Project Managers and Software Engineers in a collaborative and enabling (non-obstructive) manner; Ensuring appropriate information security policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines are being incorporated across Synack hosted services and infrastructure, with a focus on hardening and adhering to DevSecOps principles.
• Coordinate with the field teams to respond to vendor security assessments and conduct 3rd party risk assessments of Synack vendors.

Here’s what you’ll need

• 8+ years of experience IT Security Strategy, Risk Management, IT Audit and Compliance with a Cloud Service Provider
• Experience with Python, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines, plus comfort integrating tools with AI.
• Experience with Enterprise Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) tools.
• Experience with event monitoring and alerting tools such as Datadog, Stackdriver, and Azure Sentinel.
• Experience with SOAR or auto-remediation platforms and detection engineering / SIEM query languages.
• Experience with Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP).
• Experience with leveraging security tools within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Familiarity with secrets management and workload identity (non-human).
• Working knowledge of security regulations, standards, and frameworks, including but not limited to ISO27000, ISO42001, OWASP, SOC2, GDPR, CMMC, FedRAMP, and NIST.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to accurately communicate security and risk-related information to technical and non-technical audiences.

Synack is committed to embracing diversity. Our people are our strength. Each addition to our team is an opportunity to grow and diversify our ideas, experiences, and viewpoints. Synack strives to be inclusive of all people.As a candidate, Synack cares about your privacy. Please view our candidate privacy policy.This position has responsibility to ensure Synack's security and privacy posture is maintained.

$150,000 - $180,000 Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits. For more details about our benefits, please see our benefits overview.