Senior Cybersecurity & IT Controls Engineer

General Motors; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors seeks a senior cybersecurity controls professional to design, implement, and continuously improve IT control environments across cloud, SaaS, and data platforms. You will translate standards into actionable requirements and own end-to-end control assessments, partnering with cybersecurity, IT, finance, and engineering teams.

You will enhance automation, monitoring, and evidence collection while aligning with NIST, ISO, CIS, and SOX.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, information systems, computer science, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, IT audit, GRC, technology risk or IT controls assurance.
• Strong understanding of NIST, ISO, CIS and IT general controls.
• Hands-on experience with controls across cloud, SaaS, identity, and data environments.
• Familiarity with SOX, PCI, GDPR or CCPA regulatory requirements.
• Experience using GRC tools such as ServiceNow IRM and evaluating control evidence.
• Ability to identify systemic and architectural risks and propose risk-based solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder management.
• Strong organizational skills for multiple assessments and remediation priorities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical subject matter expert for cybersecurity and IT controls across applications, infrastructure, cloud, SaaS, identity, and data environments.
• Design and refine control patterns, guardrails, and reference architectures aligned with NIST, ISO, CIS, and SOX.
• 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 and IAM tools.
• Develop and support automation, scripts, and data pipelines for continuous control monitoring and evidence collection.
• Partner with platform, IAM, vulnerability management, cloud security, data protection, and third-party risk teams.
• Own end-to-end delivery of control assessments, including scoping, execution, documentation, and reporting.
• Assess the design and operating effectiveness of controls across applications, infrastructure, cloud, SaaS, identity, and data platforms.
• Evaluate technical evidence to determine control effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities.
• Identify control gaps and recommend practical, risk-based improvements.
• Validate remediation addresses root cause and aligns with GM standards and regulations.
• Assess cyber and IT risks considering threats, vulnerabilities, data sensitivity, and business impact.
• Prioritize issues and articulate risk tradeoffs and recommendations to control owners.
• Provide executive-ready reporting on control posture and remediation status.
• Clarify control ownership across Cybersecurity, IT, and business teams.
• Advance continuous controls monitoring, automation, and data-driven assurance practices.

Skills

5+ years experience

Cybersecurity frameworks

Cloud security

GRC tools

Regulatory standards

Control evidence evaluation

Risk-based remediation

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity/IS/CS or related

Tools

ServiceNow IRM

Job description

Job Description

The Role

This role strengthens GM’s cybersecurity and IT control environment by designing, engineering, implementing, assessing, and continuously improving controls across SaaS platforms, AI-enabled services, cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure, identity platforms, and data environments. The role combines technical control engineering with objective, technically grounded assurance to determine whether controls are appropriately designed and operating effectively. You’ll partner across Cybersecurity, IT, Finance, engineering, and business teams to embed effective controls into technology solutions, improve GRC tooling and data flows, and provide clear, decision-ready insights on cyber and IT risk. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who can operate across organizational boundaries, challenge weak control designs, and translate complex technical risk into practical outcomes for leadership.

What You’ll Do

• 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.
• Validate that remediation addresses root cause, is sustainable in the environment, and remains aligned with GM standards and applicable regulations.
• Assess cyber and IT risks by considering threats, vulnerabilities, data sensitivity, architectural dependencies, business impact, and likelihood.
• Prioritize issues and clearly articulate risk tradeoffs, options, and recommendations to control owners and leadership.
• Provide concise, executive-ready reporting on control posture, key risks, and remediation status using data from GRC and technical platforms.
• Clarify and reinforce control ownership and accountability across Cybersecurity, IT, and business teams.
• Advance continuous controls monitoring, automation, metrics, dashboards, and data-driven assurance practices that improve transparency and decision-making.
• Improve controls assurance tooling, workflows, and data models to increase program efficiency, reduce manual effort, and enhance reporting quality.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, IT audit, GRC, technology risk, or IT controls assurance.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST, ISO, and CIS, as well as IT General Controls domains.
• Hands-on experience with controls and security capabilities across cloud platforms, SaaS, identity platforms, and modern enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements such as SOX, PCI, GDPR, or CCPA.
• Experience using controls assurance or GRC tools, such as ServiceNow IRM, and evaluating technical control evidence, including configurations, logs, access data, and automated reports.
• Ability to identify systemic and architectural risks—not just isolated control issues—and recommend technically sound, risk-based solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to negotiate, influence, and persuade stakeholders across Cybersecurity, IT, Finance, and business teams.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple assessments, remediation activities, and stakeholder priorities with minimal rework.

What Can Give You A Competitive Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)

• Background in IT audit, consulting, technology risk, cybersecurity engineering, or a related technical risk discipline.
• Relevant certifications such as CISA, CISSP, CRISC, CISM, or CCSP.
• Experience advancing automation, continuous monitoring, or data-driven controls reporting through AI, scripting, data analytics, or dashboarding.
• Experience designing or assessing IT controls in complex, global enterprise environments.
• Experience with ServiceNow IRM, control libraries, evidence automation, or integrations with IAM, vulnerability management, logging, and cloud security platforms.
• Experience applying unified controls frameworks across multiple regulatory, security, and business requirements.
• Supervisory or people-leadership experience, including coaching, mentoring, or coordinating the work of others.
• Demonstrated ability to drive timely, sustainable remediation with clear ownership and alignment to enterprise standards.

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc). This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}. This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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