Senior GRC Security Engineer

First American; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

First American India seeks a Senior Security Engineer – Governance, Risk & Compliance to support information security GRC activities, focusing on control assessments and testing. You will collaborate with the U.S. GRC team, control owners, and SMEs to evaluate design, effectiveness, and remediation actions.

The role requires hands-on experience with control testing, risk assessment, and familiarity with NIST CSF and ISO standards, with strong communication across global teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, Risk Management, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of Information Security experience, with Governance, Risk & Compliance, security controls, audit, or assurance activities.
• Hands-on experience performing information security control assessments or control testing, including assessment of control design and operating effectiveness.
• Good understanding of control testing concepts, including evidence evaluation, sampling, control populations, test procedures, exception identification, and documentation of conclusions.
• Working knowledge of information security risk management concepts, including risk identification, likelihood, impact, inherent risk, residual risk, mitigating controls, and risk treatment.
• Experience interpreting and applying Information Security policies, standards, procedures, and control requirements.
• Familiarity with NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001/27002, related security control frameworks, and common Information Security domains such as IAM, vulnerability management, network security, endpoint security, data security, logging and monitoring, incident response, business continuity, and third-party security.
• Experience supporting policy exception, risk acceptance, issue management, remediation tracking, or similar governance processes is preferred.
• Experience with GRC, workflow, ticketing, or evidence-management tools; familiarity with ServiceNow or similar platforms is preferred.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, problem-solving, documentation, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively with technical SMEs, control owners, business stakeholders, and U.S.-based teams.
• Ability to manage multiple assessments and GRC activities, follow defined methodologies, meet timelines, and escalate issues appropriately.
• Relevant certifications such as: CISA, CRISC, CISSP, ISO/IEC 27001, or equivalent Information Security / GRC certification.

Responsibilities

• Perform information security control assessments, including design effectiveness and operating effectiveness testing, for First American Information Security controls.
• Develop and execute control test procedures, identify appropriate evidence requirements, evaluate control populations and samples, and document clear assessment conclusions.
• Review policies, standards, procedures, system-generated evidence, reports, screenshots, tickets, and other artifacts to determine whether controls are designed and operating as intended.
• Partner with control owners and Information Security subject matter experts to clarify control execution, obtain evidence, validate exceptions, and communicate assessment observations and gaps.
• Support Multi-Brand Entity (MBE) control assessments by evaluating control implementation and evidence across applicable entities and documenting assessment results.
• Support execution of the Policy Exception Request (PER) process, including review of exception information, coordination with stakeholders and SMEs, risk assessment inputs, follow-up, tracking, and closure activities.
• Perform and support information security risk assessments, including evaluation of inherent risk, likelihood, impact, residual risk, and relevant mitigating controls using established methodologies.
• Interpret Information Security policies, standards, and control requirements and apply them consistently during control and risk assessments.
• Apply and reference industry frameworks and standards such as NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001/27002, and other applicable regulatory or control frameworks as required.
• Maintain audit-ready assessment workpapers and support tracking of control gaps, remediation actions, due dates, reporting, process improvements, data quality, automation opportunities, and other GRC initiatives as assigned.
• Collaborate effectively with U.S. and India-based stakeholders and provide timely, concise, and well-supported inputs for GRC leadership and Information Security governance activities.

Skills

Information Security

GRC

Control testing

NIST CSF

ISO 27001/27002

Risk assessment

Policy interpretation

Stakeholder alignment

Audit experience

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

ServiceNow

Ticketing systems

Job description

First American India seeks a Senior Security Engineer – Governance, Risk & Compliance to support information security GRC activities, focusing on control assessments and testing. You will collaborate with the U.S. GRC team, control owners, and SMEs to evaluate design, effectiveness, and remediation actions.

The role requires hands-on experience with control testing, risk assessment, and familiarity with NIST CSF and ISO standards, with strong communication across global teams.