Security GRC Analyst
Role Overview
Information Security Associate supporting Salesforce's growing Risk Operations function.
The team coordinates cybersecurity risk management across security, engineering, and business functions to improve visibility, accountability, decision-making, and risk reduction.
The role supports day-to-day security issue and exception management and helps develop workflows, processes, and reporting.
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Role overview
Information Security Associate supporting Salesforce's growing Risk Operations function.
The team coordinates cybersecurity risk management across security, engineering, and business functions to improve visibility, accountability, decision-making, and risk reduction.
The role supports day-to-day security issue and exception management and helps develop workflows, processes, and reporting.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate timely risk reviews, approvals, and escalations.
- Manage intake, triage, and tracking of security issues and exceptions.
- Review submissions, follow up on missing information, track remediation commitments and exception expiration dates, and support resolution.
- Maintain accurate case records, documentation, and statuses in case management platforms.
- Partner with security, engineering, and compliance teams to gather information, clarify requirements, and resolve blockers.
- Monitor progress, identify stalled cases or decision gaps, and coordinate follow-ups through governance workflows.
- Track case volumes, aging, remediation progress, exception renewals, and other operational metrics.
- Identify process improvements and automation opportunities; support ad hoc operational initiatives.
Candidate requirements
- At least 2 years of experience in information security, security operations, or a related field.
- Foundational understanding of security findings, risk remediation, policy exceptions, and risk acceptance.
- Technical ability to assess compensating controls and exposures.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, able to manage cases, deadlines, follow-ups, and accurate records.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to identify inconsistencies and issues requiring escalation.
- Strong written and verbal communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Comfort learning workflow or ticketing systems and using spreadsheets and data.
- Adaptable, proactive, and interested in continuous improvement and scalable risk practices.
Modern tooling
- Direct experience using and critically reviewing code and artifacts generated by LLM coding assistants and agentic tools is required.
- Candidates must be able to guide AI tools toward desired outcomes.
- Experience experimenting with Gemini, Cursor, or other agent-based frameworks is advantageous.
Team approach
The team uses version control, code review, CI/CD, and backlogs, and treats assurance work like software delivery.
The team prioritizes automation, timely signals and escalation workflows, embedded partnership, and measurable outcomes.
The role offers opportunities to learn either the engineering side of GRC or the risk side of engineering.
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