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Security Governance & Compliance Manager
Location
California + 2 moreAll locations: California | Maryland | Vermont
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
$158.8K - $206.4K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Security Governance & Compliance Manager
Cisco
• own and drive programs, partnering closely with product, engineering, and security teams • serve as a domain expert for security compliance and help the team build toward more scalable and automated compliance operations • plan and execute audit programs from scoping through certification delivery • translate complex compliance requirements into clear, actionable implementation guidance for engineering and product teams • conduct gap analysis to assess audit readiness and ensure new products and features meet compliance requirements, and track remediation progress to closure • support continuous monitoring (ConMon) obligations to maintain compliance posture • build and use automation and AI tooling to scale compliance programs, including automating evidence collection, compliance testing, and reporting • monitor regulatory changes and assess impact
Job Requirements
- Must be an existing US citizen
- 7 or more years of experience in technical compliance, security, or risk roles with direct responsibility for audit or certification delivery (FedRAMP, DISA SRG, NIST 800-53, CMMC, DFARS, IRAP, ISMAP, or similar)
- Experience owning technical audit certification programs from scoping through delivery, including control mapping, evidence collection, remediation, and auditor engagement
- Demonstrated experience building automation to streamline evidence collection, testing, and compliance reporting including using AI tools.
- Experience with implementing and assessing security across cloud-hosted environments and common IT and engineering technologies
- Demonstrated program management skills with a track record of coordinating cross-functional workstreams and driving programs to completion under competing priorities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate complex compliance topics to auditors, engineers, and senior leadership
- Experience managing US Public Sector programs and familiarity with FedRAMP 20x modernization requirements
- Familiarity with AI governance concepts and emerging frameworks such as ISO 42001 and NIST AI RMF
- Relevant industry certifications such as CISA, CISSP, CISM, or CRISC
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- paid parental leave
- short and long-term disability coverage
- basic life insurance
- paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies: 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
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