SOC 2 Type 2 Five-TSC SaaS / Cloud Compliance Lead

FYI - For Your Information, Inc.; Silver Spring (MD); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Opportunity to work a hybrid work schedule

Tuition/education assistance

Pet insurance

Job summary

FYI - For Your Information, Inc. is seeking a SOC 2 Type 2 Five-TSC SaaS / Cloud Compliance Lead to oversee an active SOC 2 Type 2 program. This role involves coordination with various stakeholders, ensuring compliance readiness, and supporting audit activities.

The right candidate will have 8+ years of related experience, including direct support of SOC 2 audits. Competitive salary, a hybrid working schedule, and a full benefits package, including educational assistance and pet insurance, are offered.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in compliance, cybersecurity, or IT audit.
• Experience with Drata, Vanta, or similar GRC platforms.
• Direct hands-on experience with SOC 2 Type 2 audits.

Responsibilities

• Support SOC 2 audit readiness and auditor-response efforts.
• Draft and review auditor responses and management explanations.
• Identify control design gaps and audit risks.

Skills

Cybersecurity

GRC platform experience

SaaS security

IT audit

Cloud security

Control design and operating effectiveness

Education

Certification in CISA, CISSP, CISM, or equivalent

Tools

Drata

Vanta

SecureFrame

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

About the Role

FYI is seeking a SOC 2 Type 2 Five-TSC SaaS / Cloud Compliance Lead to support an active SOC 2 Type 2 program across Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy. This role will own the SOC 2 domain in a fractional capacity, including evidence review, control operation support, auditor communication support, recurring compliance cadence, and SaaS/cloud control maturity. The right candidate has supported real SOC 2 Type 2 audits and can work with engineering, IT, security, HR, operations, leadership, and auditors.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties

• Support SOC 2 Type 2 audit readiness and active auditor-response efforts across all five Trust Services Criteria.
• Review evidence requests and determine whether evidence is complete, partial, missing, stale, unclear, or misaligned to the control being tested.
• Draft and review auditor responses, management explanations, control narratives, and evidence summaries.
• Support control operations for access reviews, vendor risk management, risk assessment, policy review, security awareness, incident response, change management, and security steering activities.
• Review evidence for IAM, MFA, logging, monitoring, encryption, vulnerability management, secure SDLC, code review, release approvals, CI/CD security, SAST, DAST, SCA, backups, availability, confidentiality, processing integrity, and privacy controls.
• Coordinate with control owners to obtain timestamped, complete, and audit-ready artifacts.
• Help maintain the recurring compliance calendar for monthly, quarterly, and annual SOC 2 control activities.
• Support policy and documentation management, version control, approvals, and annual review cadence.
• Identify control design gaps, operating effectiveness gaps, evidence issues, and audit risks.
• Provide concise written status updates, blockers, risks, and next actions to the project manager and CISO/vCISO.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of cybersecurity, GRC, IT audit, compliance, SaaS security, cloud security, security consulting, or related experience.
• GRC platform experience (Drata preferred, others include Vanta or SecureFrame)
• Direct hands‑on experience supporting SOC 2 Type 2 audits.
• Experience with SaaS or cloud‑hosted application environments.
• Experience reviewing evidence for control design and operating effectiveness.
• Ability to translate audit requirements into operational tasks for engineering, IT, security, HR, legal, operations, and leadership stakeholders.
• Strong written communication skills and ability to produce auditor‑ready explanations.
• Ability to drive control owners and follow‑ups without constant prompting.
• Ability to work through ambiguity and produce clean, organized, audit‑ready documentation.

Nice to Have

• Prior SOC 2 auditor, CPA‑firm, or audit‑support experience.
• Experience with all five Trust Services Criteria: Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy.
• CISA, CISSP, CISM, Security+, CPA, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, or equivalent certification.
• Experience with Drata, Vanta, Secureframe, Hyperproof, Jira, Confluence, AWS, Azure, GCP, CI/CD tooling, SAST, DAST, SCA, vulnerability management, or cloud security tools.
• PCI DSS familiarity, especially where SOC 2 controls overlap with PCI requirements.

Expected Deliverables

• SOC 2 Five‑TSC evidence and gap tracker inputs.
• Control evidence sufficiency reviews.
• Auditor response drafts and management‑response drafts.
• Control narrative and control‑description updates.
• Recurring compliance calendar inputs for access reviews, vendor reviews, risk assessments, policy reviews, steering meetings, and evidence refresh cycles.
• Policy, procedure, and documentation review notes.
• SOC 2 blocker, risk, and next‑action summaries.

Operating Style Required

This role requires a senior operator who can own the SOC 2 lane in a fractional capacity. The contractor must communicate clearly, document next actions, identify blockers early, and coordinate through the project manager. This is not a casual side task. Responsiveness, ownership, and clean written work product are required.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work a hybrid work schedule
• A knowledgeable, high‑achieving, diverse, experienced, and fun team.
• The chance to be part of a rapidly growing company and the next success story.
• A competitive base salary with a loaded benefits package plus 401K.
• Tuition/education assistance, personal computer allowance, pet insurance.