
Senior Staff IT Security Auditor
WGU Advancement
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Salt Lake City • Utah • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,200 - $217,200 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead multiple IT security audit engagements, including planning, scoping, testing, and reporting
- Conduct advanced technical assessments across infrastructure, applications, cloud environments, and DevOps
- Translate technical findings into clear business risks and present them to senior leaders
- Serve as a trusted advisor to IT and business stakeholders, offering practical recommendations and guidance
- Mentor junior team members through project execution and skill development
- Apply and interpret frameworks including NIST, ISO 27001, COBIT, SOC 2, GLBA, PCI, and FERPA
- Recommend improvements to audit methodologies, tools, automation, and processes
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, information security, computer science, information systems, or related field
- 9 years of professional IT security experience, including 4 years in internal security auditing
- Demonstrated success leading complex audit engagements and influencing positive security outcomes
- Strong technical knowledge across infrastructure, applications, and cloud platforms (AWS or Azure)
- Proficiency with audit management tools, data analytics platforms, and automated testing solutions
Benefits
- eligible for bonuses
- medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare
- health savings account and flexible spending account
- basic and voluntary life insurance
- disability coverage
- accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
- legal and identity theft coverage
- retirement savings plan
- wellbeing program
- discounted WGU tuition
- flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual
- flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual
- 11 paid holidays
- other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave
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Hard Skills & Tools
IT security auditingtechnical assessmentscloud environmentsDevOpsaudit methodologiesdata analyticsautomated testinginfrastructure securityapplication securityrisk assessment
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationstakeholder managementproblem-solvinginfluencingadvisory skillsproject executionteam collaborationguidance