SOC 2 Type 2 Five-Tsc Saas / Cloud Compliance Lead

FYI - For Your Information, Inc. is an SBA certified, Woman-Owned Small Business and GSA schedule holder that is a premier provider of Human Capital, Training, and Information Technology services. We have won awards for being a Great Place to Work and continue to make ground-breaking advancements. For four years in a row, we have been on Inc. Magazine's 5000 list and were recently named one of Inc.'s 2024 Mid-Atlantic Fastest Growing companies. About the roleFYI is seeking a SOC 2 Type 2 Five-TSC SaaS / Cloud Compliance Lead to support an active SOC 2 Type 2 program across Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy. This role will own the SOC 2 domain in a fractional capacity, including evidence review, control operation support, auditor communication support, recurring compliance cadence, and SaaS/cloud control maturity. The right candidate has supported real SOC 2 Type 2 audits and can work with engineering, IT, security, HR, operations, leadership, and auditors.Essential responsibilities and duties

Support SOC 2 Type 2 audit readiness and active auditor-response efforts across all five Trust Services Criteria.Review evidence requests and determine whether evidence is complete, partial, missing, stale, unclear, or misaligned to the control being tested.Draft and review auditor responses, management explanations, control narratives, and evidence summaries.Support control operations for access reviews, vendor risk management, risk assessment, policy review, security awareness, incident response, change management, and security steering activities.Review evidence for IAM, MFA, logging, monitoring, encryption, vulnerability management, secure SDLC, code review, release approvals, CI/CD security, SAST, DAST, SCA, backups, availability, confidentiality, processing integrity, and privacy controls.Coordinate with control owners to obtain timestamped, complete, and audit-ready artifacts.Help maintain the recurring compliance calendar for monthly, quarterly, and annual SOC 2 control activities.Support policy and documentation management, version control, approvals, and annual review cadence.Identify control design gaps, operating effectiveness gaps, evidence issues, and audit risks.Provide concise written status updates, blockers, risks, and next actions to the project manager and CISO/vCISO.Required qualifications8+ years of cybersecurity, GRC, IT audit, compliance, SaaS security, cloud security, security consulting, or related experience.GRC platform experience (Drata preferred, others include Vanta or SecureFrame)Direct hands-on experience supporting SOC 2 Type 2 audits.Experience with SaaS or cloud-hosted application environments.Experience reviewing evidence for control design and operating effectiveness.Ability to translate audit requirements into operational tasks for engineering, IT, security, HR, legal, operations, and leadership stakeholders.Strong written communication skills and ability to produce auditor-ready explanations.Ability to drive control owners and follow-ups without constant prompting.Ability to work through ambiguity and produce clean, organized, audit-ready documentation.Nice to have

Prior SOC 2 auditor, CPA-firm, or audit-support experience.Experience with all five Trust Services Criteria: Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy.CISA, CISSP, CISM, Security+, CPA, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, or equivalent certification.Experience with Drata, Vanta, Secureframe, Hyperproof, Jira, Confluence, AWS, Azure, GCP, CI/CD tooling, SAST, DAST, SCA, vulnerability management, or cloud security tools.PCI DSS familiarity, especially where SOC 2 controls overlap with PCI requirements.Expected deliverablesSOC 2 Five-TSC evidence and gap tracker inputs.Control evidence sufficiency reviews.Auditor response drafts and management-response drafts.Control narrative and control-description updates.Recurring compliance calendar inputs for access reviews, vendor reviews, risk assessments, policy reviews, steering meetings, and evidence refresh cycles.Policy, procedure, and documentation review notes.SOC 2 blocker, risk, and next-action summaries.Operating style required

This role requires a senior operator who can own the SOC 2 lane in a fractional capacity. The contractor must communicate clearly, document next actions, identify blockers early, and coordinate through the project manager. This is not a casual side task. Responsiveness, ownership, and clean written work product are required.FYI's Benefits/Incentives: What is in it for you?Opportunity to work a hybrid work scheduleA knowledgeable, high-achieving, diverse, experienced, and fun team.The chance to be part of a rapidly growing company and the next success story.A competitive base salary with a loaded benefits package plus 401K.Tuition/education assistance, personal computer allowance, pet insurance.