Principal Security Compliance Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Massachusetts.

📋 Description

• Strategically lead and implement security compliance initiatives across Akamai's global enterprise portfolio.

• Supervise compliance strategy and execution in accordance with regulatory, industry, customer-driven, and defense frameworks.

• Analyze intricate requirements and develop scalable control frameworks.

• Manage comprehensive audit initiatives in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

• Design and execute adaptable, unified control frameworks for commercial, federal, and DoD authorization requirements.

• Partner with security architects, software engineers, and system owners to create, test, and maintain technically verifiable controls.

• Align controls with federal, defense, and international standards.

• Act as the primary technical liaison for 3PAOs, C3PAOs, external audit entities, and defense agencies.

• Oversee assessment lifecycles, evidence collection, and remediation of findings.

• Integrate compliance gaps, audit outcomes, and regulatory changes into risk models, written reports, and strategic briefings.

• Facilitate continuous monitoring and recurring audit processes to ensure ongoing readiness.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience.

• BA/BS or Graduate Degree.

• Familiarity with security compliance programs across various frameworks, including DoD SRG IL4/IL5/IL6, CMMC, NIST SP 800-171/53, FedRAMP, SOC 1/2/3, ISO/IEC 27001, PCI-DSS, or GovRAMP.

• Experience in a Cloud Service Provider environment or as a consultant/assessor with a Third-Party Assessment Organization.

• Demonstrated ability to engage with senior executive leadership and government/defense stakeholders.

• Skill in translating compliance requirements into strategic business facilitators.

• Credentials such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, CCSP, CCA/CCP (CMMC Assessor/Professional), ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, or equivalent.

🏝️ Benefits

• Healthcare.

• 401K savings plan.

• Company holidays.

• Vacation in the form of PTO.

• Sick time.

• Parental leave.

• Employee assistance program.

• Mental wellness support.

• Financial wellness support.

• Annual bonus or incentives.

• Equity awards.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

• Flexible work arrangements: work from home, in an office, or a combination of both.