We’re hiring! Any security and compliance people out there to help us achieve SOC 2, and then some?

Luke R
3 min readJan 6, 2021

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To drive our security and operations to the next level we have a number of new positions opening up here at Glasswall.

Achieving SOC 2 Type 1 will be an early outcome of the work, but our endeavour is super exciting and far more than just that. We are looking to visualize and scale compliance across the organization. We will achieve this utilizing Jira as a graph db. By mapping all SOC 2 controls to various Teams, Projects, Products, Process’s, Outputs etc and all associated Meta Data — We will provide context to each control measure and the work required to create, deliver or evidence compliance. We aim to engineer the s#$% out of this — achieving a high level of automated self-certifying solutions as our products and processes continue to develop and mature. This is an opportunity to drive positive business change and show measurement through visualization and data.

Risk Compliance Officer : Click here for Job Description

Risk Compliance Engineer: Click here for Job Description

Delivery Manager : Click here for Job Description

We have recorded some great videos which help explain the roles and our approach to the work as well:
6 Minute YouTube Video , there is a link to a longer version at the bottom :)
Recording of our presentation at the Open Security Summit

As with everything we do these days, we are going to be creative and flexible in the process of finding and recruiting the amazing talent that is out there, and discover who will be a perfect match for our culture and acceleration.

Glasswall is currently pioneering our own ‘Squads and Maps’ Framework, focused on creating products with a good release cadence, delivering value/features to customers and in an environment where every team member makes a difference.

This Framework is inspired by the amazing ideas and concepts shared by: Spotify Squad Framework, Wardley Maps, Teams Topologies book, Inspired book and Cynefin Framework.

Along with our modern approach to Team and Communication structure and dynamics within our organisation, we are also sitting on a up to date and relevant Technology stack and are continuously reviewing and updating how we work and what tools we leverage to ensure we stay on the forefront and embrace and adapt to the evolving landscape we operate in.

To make the process fair (i.e. avoid having to make initial selections based on traditional CVs) and to allow us to help all candidates (even if they are not successful), here is what we ask candidates to do:

  • Create a presentation about you (see this, this or this for an example)
  • Create a presentation with a Wardley Map (for example: about an industry, about you or even about a cup of coffee). In this presentation we also want to see the candidate’s experience of creating that map, the thought process and the learning experience. You can use this to help, click on Sample Map for an example.
  • Tell us how you would use Jira to visualise, measure and scale SOC 2 compliance.
  • Put all materials in a public or private GitHub/GitLab repo (bonus points for the use of CI/CD pipelines and releasing materials under a Creative Commons licence)
  • Then apply at http://careers.glasswallsolutions.com/

We have three main objectives with this recruitment process:

  1. Make all candidates better by exposing them to modern ideas and workflows
  2. Create a learning opportunity for all candidates (which is one of the key metrics that we will be using when selecting the candidates)
  3. Create a fair process to find talent that otherwise would be missed

Suitable Candidates Will:

  • Be experienced and in demand but have flexibility to start this work asap, even if part time at first then transition to full time. — We will hire both fill time and part-time candidates
  • Initial engagement will be a contract via Upwork on an hourly rate.
  • This will progress to a fixed length contract.
  • Successful participants will have the opportunity to then join our team full time.

Please share this post with your network and help us to find amazing talent that wants to learn a lot and make a massive difference.

How to Apply

http://careers.glasswallsolutions.com/

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Luke R

I love tech, change, challenges, Kaizen. Quickly adapting to new environments I’ve been involved in global teams with a focus on QA, SRE and Operational.