Sr. Security Assurance Engineer

About this role

Our Mission:

6sense's mission is to multiply what matters: growth, retention, and efficiency. We envision a future where companies, teams and people reach their full potential.

Our People:

People are the heart and soul of 6sense. We serve with passion and purpose. We live by our Being 6sense values of Win as One Team, Stay Curious, Do The Right Thing, Own the Outcome, and Create Belonging. Every 6sensor plays a part in defining the future of our industry-leading technology. 6sense is a place where difference-makers roll up their sleeves, take risks, act with integrity, and measure success by the value we create for our customers. We want 6sense to be the best chapter of your career.

Job Title: Senior Security Engineer, GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance)

Organizational Reporting: Director, Security Assurance

Function/Dept: Business Technology / Security

Purpose of the Job

As members of 6sense's Security department, the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) team aligns Security with business objectives while managing risks and meeting industry standards, regulations and contractual obligations. GRC enforces governance, implements risk management strategies, and ensures compliance through operating as the second line of defense.

This role is the engineering capability behind that mission. Rather than testing controls after the fact, this engineer builds the systems that test them continuously. The expectation is that controls are monitored as code, technical evidence is produced automatically from AWS and other source systems, control owners can self-serve their own evidence without a GRC ticket, and AI is used as core infrastructure across GRC workflows rather than as an experiment. Audit readiness should be a byproduct of the running system, not a project.

Job Description

Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• All responsibilities of GRC Security Engineer III, and;

• Design, build, and own automated security control monitoring; write production-quality code (e.g., Python) under version control, peer review, and CI/CD, and treat control logic as a maintained software asset rather than a documented procedure

• Convert the control library from periodic, sample-based manual testing to continuous control monitoring (CCM): define the technical signal for each control, its test frequency, pass/fail thresholds, and alerting and escalation path

• Engineer self-service technical evidence collection in AWS using native services (Config, Security Hub, CloudTrail, Organizations/SCPs, IAM Access Analyzer, Systems Manager, EventBridge, Lambda, Athena/S3, CloudWatch), so control owners and auditors retrieve current evidence on demand without GRC acting as an intermediary

• Eliminate manual, screenshot-based, and ticket-driven evidence collection; retire manual test procedures as automated equivalents come online and document the transition so auditors can rely on it

• Redesign GRC processes to be AI-native; apply LLMs and agentic workflows to evidence review, control mapping, gap analysis, security questionnaire and customer due diligence response, policy and procedure drafting, and risk assessment triage, with explicit human-in-the-loop review, guardrails, and output validation

• Maintain a single normalized control library crosswalked across frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, SOX, GDPR, NIST) so that one automated test satisfies multiple obligations

• Build the control-failure pipeline end to end: automated detection, enrichment, ticket creation, owner routing, SLA tracking, remediation verification, and closure, including exception and risk acceptance handling where remediation is not viable

• Partner with Platform Engineering, DevOps, and IT to shift controls left into preventive guardrails: service control policies, AWS Config conformance packs, policy-as-code in CI/CD, and secure-by-default infrastructure patterns

• Instrument control health reporting: automation coverage, evidence freshness, control failure rates, mean time to remediate, and audit-readiness posture, surfaced in dashboards consumable by Security leadership and control owners

• Lead internal and external audit engagements with automated evidence as the primary artifact; defend automated test design, sampling logic, and the completeness and accuracy of system-generated evidence to auditors and assessors

• Oversee and execute complex control tests and third-party and operational security risk assessments, using tooling and AI-assisted analysis to increase coverage and reduce cycle time, and communicate results across multiple audiences with varying levels of sensitivity

• Develop issue and risk treatment plans with owners and validate remediation through automated re-testing rather than manual confirmation

• Set the technical bar for the team: peer review other GRC Engineers' automation, queries, and test logic, and provide feedback, guidance, and enablement so automation ownership is distributed rather than siloed

• Provide GRC technology administration, including integrations, API-based data flows, and user training and enablement

• Mature security governance, training and awareness programs, using automation to target and measure them

• Improve GRC handbook pages, procedures, playbooks, and technical design documentation, and maintain security program controlled documents

• Execute on quarterly individual Key Results that support team Objectives (OKRs)

Key Outcomes (First 12 Months)

• A defined and measurable share of the control library operating under continuous monitoring, with a credible quarter-over-quarter plan to expand coverage

• Technical evidence for in-scope AWS controls generated automatically and retrievable without GRC involvement

• A documented reduction in audit preparation effort and evidence request turnaround time versus the prior audit cycle

• At least one materially redesigned, AI-native GRC process replacing a previously manual workflow, with measured quality and throughp

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