# Compliance Operations Lead

**Company:** [Govsignals](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/govsignals)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $140k – $190k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** fedramp high, il5, cmmc level 2, SOC 2, nist 800-171, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jamf, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Penetration Testing, red teaming
**Posted:** 2026-07-21

> Build and own the end-to-end security and compliance program for a government contracting AI platform, driving FedRAMP High ATO, automating evidence collection in CI/CD, and serving as the customer-facing trust lead. Requires 3+ years leading compliance programs with proven FedRAMP success and fluency in public-sector frameworks.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Build and run the master compliance program covering FedRAMP High, IL5, CMMC Level 2, SOC 2, and adjacent public-sector frameworks; maintain a forward-looking roadmap anticipating new frameworks, customer requirements, and regulatory changes.
- Drive the FedRAMP High ATO roadmap end-to-end, including 3PAO coordination, agency sponsorship navigation, and continuous monitoring once authorized.
- Own evidence management end-to-end: implement automated policy checks, control evidence capture, and continuous monitoring tooling to remain audit-ready daily.
- Lead quarterly and annual security documentation cycles, coordinate penetration tests and red-team engagements, and track remediation to closure.
- Serve as the primary voice on enterprise security questionnaires and customer trust calls; join pitches and discovery calls, brief prospects on compliance roadmap, represent at industry and federal/defense forums, and build a customer-facing trust center and reusable response library.
- Embed secure-by-design practices with engineering, including policy checks in CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code guardrails, and hardened deployment pipelines; monitor threat landscape and propose proactive hardening measures.

## What You Bring
- 3+ years leading compliance or security programs at a high-growth technology or defense startup, comfortable in fast-moving, early-stage environments.
- Demonstrated success achieving and maintaining FedRAMP High ATO or equivalent high-impact authorization; experience building a compliance program from scratch.
- Deep working fluency with IL5, CMMC Level 2, SOC 2 Type II, NIST 800-171, and the broader U.S. public-sector compliance landscape.
- Proven ability to design and run automated evidence collection, policy management, and vulnerability-tracking workflows; experience coordinating red-team, penetration-test, or bug-bounty programs and translating findings into engineering action.
- Ability to write policy and read code; translate effectively between auditors and senior engineers.
- Strong written and verbal communication for technical and executive audiences; comfortable owning customer security reviews end-to-end.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Hands-on exposure to Kubernetes, Terraform, JAMF, and modern DevSecOps toolchains.
- Prior experience supporting an IC or DoD customer base.
- Background in government contracting, the military, or the intelligence community.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Base Salary: $140,000 – $190,000
- Equity: Meaningful stake in a well-funded, fast-growing startup
- Benefits: medical, vision, and dental; unlimited PTO
- Brooklyn Navy Yard office (3+ days/week in person)

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