Drive new ISO readiness , including coordinating evidence, controls, audit preparation, remediation activities, and maintaining the ISMS on a day-to-day basis.
Own operational GDPR and data protection activities , including DPAs, DPIAs, privacy/security assessments, and reviewing security and privacy clauses within client and vendor contracts.
Maintain all company security materials, including trust page content, data-room documents, policies, procedures, certifications, architecture diagrams, compliance evidence, and supporting security documentation.
Build and maintain a central InfoSec knowledge base containing approved standard responses, reusable evidence, and guidance for common enterprise security and privacy questions.
Join client security calls when required and work with technical/data infrastructure owners to accurately explain architecture, hosting, data flows, access control, encryption, backup, logging, monitoring, incident response, and secure development practices.
Work with leadership, engineering, infrastructure, QA, legal/privacy stakeholders, and client-facing teams to ensure security and compliance responses are accurate, consistent, proportionate, and professionally managed.
Support new certifications, renewals, audits, assessments, recurring compliance reviews, and ongoing security evidence requests.
Propose practical and proportionate security and compliance improvements across software development, deployment, cloud infrastructure, access management, incident response, vendor management, and client onboarding.
Apply security and compliance controls pragmatically so that risk is appropriately managed without creating unnecessary process, slowing procurement, or introducing avoidable blockers for clients, vendors, or internal teams.
Coordinate with team to ensure deployment environments follow approved security and compliance standards.
Coordinate with QA and engineering for security testing, access testing, permission validation, secure SDLC evidence, and other required assurance activities.
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Escalate material or high-risk security and compliance findings to the Head of GDS, or senior leadership , providing clear context, risk assessment, and recommended actions.
Work within the strategic security direction established by the Fractional CISO while owning the day-to-day execution and continuous improvement of GRC activities under GDS.
Requirements
Strong hands-on experience with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 , including implementation, control operation, audit preparation, evidence collection, remediation, or certification readiness.
Practical experience with GDPR, DPAs, DPIAs, data protection requirements, privacy/security contractual clauses, and associated compliance evidence .
Strong experience completing enterprise security questionnaires, client security assessments, vendor-risk reviews, procurement security requirements, and related evidence requests.
Strong understanding of GRC, application security, cloud security, data protection, enterprise security reviews, and risk management.
Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as GCP , sufficient to confidently support enterprise security assessments and client security discussions.
Knowledge of access control, SSO, encryption, key management, logging, monitoring, backup and recovery, incident response, vulnerability management, and secure SDLC practices.
Ability to read and understand architecture diagrams, API flows, data-flow diagrams, infrastructure documentation, and technical security evidence.
Experience preparing, organizing, and presenting security and compliance evidence for enterprise clients, auditors, and assessors.
Strong documentation, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with the ability to translate technical and compliance topics into clear business responses.
Ability to apply security and compliance requirements pragmatically, balancing risk reduction with commercial and operational needs.
Relevant professional certifications such as ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, CISM , or equivalent security/GRC certifications are highly valued.
Benefits
Private Health Insurance
Paid Time Off
Work From Home
Training & Development
About Blankstate
Software & SaaS18 employeesFounded 2019
London-based private software company building AI infrastructure that measures and audits human interactions.