Senior Cybersecurity Controls Engineer

General Motors; Warren (MI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors seeks a senior cybersecurity controls professional to strengthen GM's control environment across SaaS, cloud, identity, and data platforms. You will design, implement, and assess controls, partnering with Cybersecurity, IT, Finance, and engineering teams to embed effective risk management into technology solutions.

The role emphasizes turning complex technical risk into practical leadership insights, with responsibility for end-to-end control assessments and continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, IT audit, or IT controls assurance.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST, ISO, CIS and IT General Controls.
• Hands-on experience with controls and security capabilities across cloud platforms, SaaS, identity platforms, and modern enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical subject matter expert for cybersecurity and IT controls across applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, SaaS, identity, and data environments.
• Design and refine control patterns, guardrails, and reference architectures aligned with NIST, ISO, CIS, and SOX requirements.
• Translate policies and standards into actionable, technically feasible control requirements for engineering and product teams.
• Engineer and enhance controls assurance workflows and data integrations across platforms such as ServiceNow IRM, logging platforms, IAM tools, and cloud-native security capabilities.
• Develop and support automation, scripts, and data pipelines that improve continuous control monitoring, evidence collection, traceability, and scalability.
• Partner with platform, IAM, vulnerability management, cloud security, data protection, and third-party risk teams to embed preventative and detective controls into solutions and services.
• Own end-to-end delivery of control assessments, including scoping, execution, documentation, stakeholder alignment, and reporting.
• Assess the design and operating effectiveness of controls across applications, infrastructure, cloud, SaaS, identity, and data platforms.
• Evaluate technical evidence-including configurations, access data, logs, and automated outputs-to determine control effectiveness and identify opportunities to strengthen control design.
• Identify control gaps such as excessive access, weak segregation of duties, monitoring gaps, and insecure configurations, then recommend practical, risk-based improvements.

Skills

Cybersecurity engineering

IT audit

GRC

NIST ISO CIS

SOX PCI GDPR CCPA

ServiceNow IRM

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science

Tools

ServiceNow IRM

Job description

General Motors seeks a senior cybersecurity controls professional to strengthen GM's control environment across SaaS, cloud, identity, and data platforms. You will design, implement, and assess controls, partnering with Cybersecurity, IT, Finance, and engineering teams to embed effective risk management into technology solutions.

The role emphasizes turning complex technical risk into practical leadership insights, with responsibility for end-to-end control assessments and continuous improvement