Senior GRC Analyst

As a Senior GRC Analyst at DigitalOcean you will lead the strategic maturation of DigitalOcean’s compliance framework to include multiple ISO standards such as ISO 27001 ISO 27017 and ISO 22301. You will also lead maturation efforts concerning the existing compliance program which includes; but is not limited to SOC 2 and HIPAA. You will be a builder who understands the importance of balancing compliance with engineering velocity collaborating directly with engineering and product teams to integrate compliance into existing workflows. You will partner with teams throughout the organization to weave applicable controls into the fabric of our operations ensuring DigitalOcean remains a trusted platform for our customers. This role reports to the Manager of GRC within the Security organization.

• Multi-Standard Strategy: Architect and lead the implementation of an Integrated Management System (IMS) that harmonizes requirements across multiple ISO standards.
• Compliance Scope Expansion: Manage cross-functional projects required to achieve and maintain product-level compliance certifications and/or eligibility for DigitalOcean’s core and emerging cloud services.
• Risk Governance: Lead both annual and ad-hoc risk assessments; maintain a dynamic risk register and drive cross-functional remediation for identified gaps.
• Control Innovation: Design and implement controls which meet rigorous standards without sacrificing velocity.
• Policy: Author and maintain enterprise-level security policies standards and procedures that reflect current regulatory landscapes internal risk appetite and operational engineering realities.
• Operational Responsiveness & Customer Trust: Act as a subject matter expert in GRC on-call rotations directly address complex customer inquiries and support incident response activities to ensure compliance obligations are met under pressure.

• Expertise: You have 5+ years of experience in GRC with a proven track record of leading multi-certification and multi-standard compliance programs preferably at a technology company where you directly partnered with engineering or infrastructure teams.
• Program Maturity: You have experience building maturing and expanding the influence of an ISO program.
• Risk Lifecycle Management: You have experience in risk identification various risk assessment methodologies discerning between appropriate risk responses and monitoring risk treatment plans.
• Navigating Ambiguity: You are comfortable working cross-functionally to interpret ambiguity within new standards (e.g. ISO 42001) regulations and legislation.
• Influence: You have the ability to translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into actionable testable controls for engineering product and IT teams.
• Project Management: You have strong project management skills and the ability to manage complex multi-quarter roadmaps involving dozens of stakeholders

• Certifications: Relevant industry certifications such as a CRISC or ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
• Privacy Knowledge: Familiarity with prominent privacy legislation (e.g. GDPR/CCPA) as it relates to ISO 27701

• $140000-$165000

*This is a hybrid role

JR: 2026-8012

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What We Do

DigitalOcean is the Inference Cloud — a full-stack production-ready cloud platform built to run AI applications with predictable performance sustainable economics and radically simpler operations at scale. We are built for teams turning AI into real products — not just training models. Our advantage is not fewer features but fewer failure modes when operating AI at scale — combining minimal operational overhead predictable cost efficiency and a full-stack cloud that works as a system. Hyperscalers are broad by design. Neoclouds are infrastructure-first. DigitalOcean is inference-first — with a real cloud underneath. It combines inference-optimized compute managed inference software and integrated cloud capabilities that reduce operational burden for teams running real workloads. Inference is the foundation—not the boundary. Everything else builds on top of it.

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