Cybersecurity GRC Analyst
Semperis
About The Role
- This is a hands-on, learning-focused role supporting the GRC team across governance, risk, compliance, and customer trust.
Key Responsibilities
Security Awareness Training
- Follow up on overdue security training.
- Lead the annual Security and Compliance Training campaign: work with People Operations and Legal on the curriculum, set up enrollments in the training platform, track completion weekly, and escalate overdue training.
- Handle training exceptions.
- Keep training records ready as audit evidence.
- Gather feedback to improve next year's campaign.
Customer Trust
- Answer customer security questionnaires, starting with simpler requests.
- Escalate complex requests to senior teammates.
- Check answers for accuracy.
- Confirm requestors are under NDA before sharing information.
- Help maintain our answer library and Trust Center content.
Audit and Compliance Support
- Learn our FedRAMP program and support the FedRAMP ISSO as needed.
- Gather and organize evidence for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits.
- Confirm evidence meets each request and prepare it for review before it goes to auditors.
Governance and Risk Support
- Coordinate security policy updates: route policies for review and approval, publish approved versions, and keep version history and change records.
- Recommend improvements to team processes, status reporting, and work priorities.
- Support vendor risk work by tracking annual recertification of critical vendors and sending information requests to vendors.
- Provide administrative support for the cyber risk register, including intake of new risk information.
- Use our GRC platform (Vanta) and help find ways to automate manual tasks and evidence collection.
Requirements & Tech Stack
Required
- One of the following: a CISA, CRISC, or CISSP certification, or a degree in Cybersecurity.
- At least 6 months of experience in a GRC role.
- Strong organization, attention to detail, and follow-through on deadlines.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 and Excel.
- Comfort using AI-assisted tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- 2 to 3 years of work experience in IT, cybersecurity, or GRC.
- Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP audits, in a supporting role or as an auditee.
- Experience with a modern GRC platform such as Vanta.
- Experience answering customer security questionnaires.
- Experience at a SaaS, cloud, or cybersecurity company.
Success Measures (First Year)
- Assignments are completed correctly and on time, with good judgment about when to ask for help.
- Overdue training is followed up and the annual training campaign is delivered on schedule.
- Ownership of customer security questionnaires is shared within the first few months.
- Audit evidence for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 is complete and on time.