PKI Compliance & Audit Manager
About The Company Our client is a fast-growing technology company building digital trust infrastructure for the digital economy. Its platform enables organizations and individuals to manage, execute, and verify agreements securely and efficiently through digital signatures, digital agreements, and identity verification solutions.
With strong market traction, a growing customer base, and continued investment support, the company is expanding its legal team and seeking a Legal Counsel to support its next phase of growth.
About The Role We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented PKI Audit & Compliance Officer to help ensure the effectiveness, compliance, and audit readiness of digital trust and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) services.
This role is ideal for professionals with experience in IT audit, cybersecurity compliance, risk management, governance, or regulated technology environments who enjoy working with controls, evidence, audits, and compliance frameworks. The position requires an independent mindset and the ability to assess, challenge, and improve control effectiveness while supporting business objectives.
Key Responsibilities Compliance & Governance
- Maintain and continuously improve the compliance framework supporting PKI and digital trust services.
- Monitor and track applicable regulatory, security, privacy, and industry requirements.
- Maintain control matrices, compliance registers, remediation plans, and gap assessments.
- Ensure operational activities remain aligned with approved policies, procedures, and governance requirements.
- Support periodic reviews of policies, operational procedures, privileged roles, and access controls.
- Translate compliance requirements into practical and measurable controls.
- Prepare and maintain audit-ready documentation and supporting evidence.
- Coordinate evidence collection across technology, security, operations, legal, and business teams.
- Review documentation and evidence for completeness, accuracy, and consistency.
- Maintain audit repositories, compliance trackers, and control records.
- Support internal audits, external assessments, certifications, and regulatory reviews.
- Track findings, remediation activities, ownership, timelines, and closure evidence.
- Perform periodic reviews of security, operational, and compliance controls.
- Review evidence related to certificate lifecycle activities, validation processes, privileged access, change management, incident management, vulnerability management, and monitoring activities.
- Assess control effectiveness and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Recommend corrective actions and follow through until remediation is completed.
- Help establish a proactive culture of compliance and continuous improvement.
- Review and observe sensitive PKI activities and operational ceremonies where required.
- Verify that critical cryptographic and trust-service activities are performed according to approved procedures.
- Ensure key ceremonies and other high-assurance processes are properly documented and evidenced.
- Escalate control deviations, risks, or compliance concerns when identified.
- Maintain compliance calendars, risk registers, and remediation trackers.
- Support governance forums with compliance updates, metrics, and reporting.
- Monitor progress against audit findings and regulatory obligations.
- Assist with periodic reviews of cryptographic standards, certificate policies, and security requirements.
- Support management and legal stakeholders in responding to audit and regulatory requests.
- Compliance controls remain effective, documented, and audit-ready.
- Evidence is complete, organized, and easily retrievable.
- Internal reviews identify issues before they become audit findings.
- Remediation actions are tracked and closed within agreed timelines.
- Policies, procedures, and operational practices remain aligned.
- Compliance activities enable the business while maintaining security and regulatory requirements.
- 3 7 years of experience in IT audit, cybersecurity compliance, risk management, governance, GRC, information security, or related fields.
- Strong understanding of security controls, access management, change management, incident response, vulnerability management, logging, backup, and disaster recovery proc