Job ID: 2001003

Meet the Team

Trust and Compliance team is responsible for ensuring portfolio meets the cybersecurity compliance and certifications required to access markets around the world while simultaneously providing security assurances to our customers. Our team plays a leading role in understanding customer needs for security, privacy, data protection, and customer data management; informing, supporting, and collaborating with customers, Sales, Engineering, Supply Chain, Government Affairs and Legal; and building industry leading trust and transparency through security and compliance engineering.

Your Impact

A leader who understands all aspects of performance which impacts both internal and external Compliance posture. The individual will play a critical role in driving the compliance strategy for Cloud offerings in Japan, supporting a rapidly expanding ISMAP (Information system Security Management and Assessment Program) portfolio. It requires an individual to showcase in-depth knowledge and decision-making skills based on risk to build long term sustainable process paths to improve our Compliance and Security posture. The successful candidate will be expected to obtain and maintain ISMAP), and contribute to the continued development of the corporate group.

•            Contribute under the supervision and mentorship of the Global Cloud Compliance Strategy Leader and drive technology compliance activities across product offerings.

•            Serve as a subject matter expert for ISMAP, providing guidance and support to teams on compliance-related tasks.  Liaison with External Auditors, Government agencies wherever applicable for ISMAP audit and certification of products. The Candidate shall also work on other compliance projects as well.

•            Perform Information Security related assessments to cover domains like User Access management, Network, OS & Application Security, Vulnerability Management, Encryption, SDLC, Backup Management, Disaster Recovery, Physical Security, Training & Awareness etc.

•            Draft compliance reports to summarize the compliance objectives, key findings, and work with teams to remediate key findings

•            Own the liaising with external auditors and customers to help them gain comfort with regard to Cloud program.

•            Assist in Compliance testing as and when required. Identify internal controls issues, ensure they are well-defined and root causes are identified

•            Develop, automate and maintain audit/compliance tasks in GRC as well as other related tools

•            Build and maintain compliance dashboards to provide a holistic view of the compliance posture of the organization

•            Collaborate and coordinate activities with the Cloud team based across geographies.

Minimum Qualifications

· Bachelors / master's Degree with a focus in Information Technology / Computer Science or related field with a minimum 3 years of related cybersecurity regulatory compliance experience.

· Knowledge of Compliance framework(s) ISMAP is a must to have and others such as IRAP, SOC 2, ISO, PCI, FedRAMP are good to have.

· Language Proficiency: fluent in Japanese and business professional proficiency in English.

· Hands on experience with AWS and other cloud environments

· Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills. It is important that the candidate is a team-player and possesses strong organizational and planning skills.

Preferred Qualifications

·Relevant certifications such as CISA, CISSP, or CCSK are a plus.

 ·Knowledge of common IT systems (Operating Systems, network devices, applications), Core IT processes / services such as SDLC, Identity and Access management, Vulnerability Management, Backup and DR processes will be useful

· Ability to connect and communicate with both business and IT technical staff including IT and Business management.

· Requires the ability to multi-task, be focused, and tackle problems analytically 

Why Cisco? 

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