What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Risk and Compliance Engineer position at Koddi?
The Koddi engineering team is seeking an experienced Senior Risk and Compliance Engineer to join our fast paced, highly productive infrastructure team. We operate in a high-speed, data-driven environment, where security, compliance, and risk management are critical to our success. As we expand, we are looking for this pivotal role to lead and manage our compliance efforts end to end.
\n- Serve as a central point of coordination for the development team, ensuring SOC audit requirements are clearly defined and understood
- Establish and maintain compliance frameworks, security controls, and risk management processes for our cloud-based infrastructure (AWS preferred, Azure a plus)
- Ensure individual engineers and engineering managers spend less time on non-engineering processes and activities
- Make sure the engineering department as a whole smoothly and efficiently executes non-engineering processes and activities
- Collaborate with internal teams (engineering, security, legal, and leadership) to ensure compliance requirements are built into infrastructure, systems, and software development processes
- Conduct internal audits and risk assessments to identify compliance gaps, recommend improvements, and track remediation efforts
- Manage external audits and coordinate with third-party assessors to ensure successful certification and compliance renewals
- Own and execute Engineering Readiness Management policy and related processes
- Help execute other non-engineering processes (e.g. Risk Management, Incident Management) inside the engineering department
- Drive technical compliance reviews for relevant engineering projects at application and infrastructure levels, to ensure adherence to compliance standards
- Maintain and track compliance tasks schedule, initiating all the necessary internal processes
- Streamline and document processes across all three platforms, keeping them updated as changes occur to ensure year-round compliance and audit readiness, maintaining and improving related organizational knowledge
- Align external audit controls with additional partner-related obligations to simplify and consolidate implementation methods and evidence collection
- Act as a bridge between engineering, leadership, and external auditors, facilitating smooth communication and reducing the risk of exceptions or qualifications during the audit process.
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience
- 5 years of experience with technology compliance across domains such as Access Management, Configuration Management, Change Management, Ads Revenue, Information Security, etc. in a Cloud Environment
- 3 years of experience with AWS and Azure
- Strong knowledge of industry-specific regulations, compliance frameworks, and standards including but not limited to: SOC 1/2, GDPR, CCPA, and various cloud vendor partnership level requirements
- Experience with open source compliance and online advertising industries (B2C and B2B)
- Hands-on experience implementing security controls in AWS and Azure cloud environments (IAM, encryption, logging, monitoring)
- Strong technical background in security architecture, risk assessment methodologies, and vulnerability management
- Proven experience in conducting engineering / system compliance reviews
- Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines with high quality
- Detail-oriented, analytical, tech-savvy, and adept to navigate through tools, systems, and platforms
- Project management, teamwork, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, attention to detail, and ability to communicate with all levels of management
- Self starter, motivated and proactive with strong organizational and project management skills to multitask, thrive, and succeed in a fast-paced environment
- Certifications in one or more of the following areas: CISSP, CISA or similar is a plus
ABOUT KODDI
Koddi is a global technology company with software and services that help top digital marketplaces effectively monetize their first-party audiences through industry-leading commerce media technology and strategy. Our enterprise platforms leverage first-party data to drive marketplace revenue and profit by improving user experience and target shoppers throughout the purchase path. Koddi’s platforms enable any advertiser, any marketplace, in any industry to increase awareness, generate demand, and drive revenue.
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