Principal Security Compliance Specialist

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🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $132.1k - $237.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚔 Compliance

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Akamai Technologies

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2001-07

Cloud Computing • Cybersecurity • Content Delivery

Akamai Technologies is a leading cloud services provider that specializes in delivering security, cloud computing, and content delivery solutions. It offers a range of services such as API security, DDoS protection, and performance optimization for web applications, ensuring secure and reliable user experiences. With a robust global infrastructure, Akamai empowers businesses to streamline their digital presence while safeguarding against various cyber threats and enhancing application performance.

📋 Description

• Strategically drive and execute security compliance initiatives across Akamai's global enterprise portfolio • Oversee compliance strategy and execution across regulatory, industry, customer-driven, and defense frameworks • Interpret complex requirements and design scalable control frameworks • Lead end-to-end audit initiatives in partnership with cross-functional teams • Architect and implement adaptable, unified control frameworks for commercial, federal, and DoD authorization requirements • Collaborate with security architects, software engineers, and system owners to design, test, and maintain technically verifiable controls • Map controls to federal, defense, and international standards • Serve as primary technical interface for 3PAOs, C3PAOs, external audit bodies, and defense agencies • Manage assessment lifecycles, evidence gathering, and finding remediations • Synthesize compliance gaps, audit findings, and regulatory shifts into risk models, written reports, and strategic briefings • Drive continuous monitoring and recurring audit workflows for ongoing readiness

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years relevant experience • BA/BS or Graduate Degree • Experience with security compliance programs across multiple 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 working directly within a Cloud Service Provider environment or as a consultant/assessor with a Third-Party Assessment Organization • Proven experience interfacing with senior executive leadership and government/defense stakeholders • Ability to translate compliance demands into strategic business enablers • CISSP, CISA, CISM, CCSP, CCA/CCP (CMMC Assessor/Professional), ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, or equivalent credentials

🏖️ 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 at home, in an office, or a combination of both