Information Security Assurance Advisor

Overview

The Information Security Assurance Advisor develops, implements, and maintains information security policies, procedures, controls, and evidence; leads audit readiness and execution for HITRUST and SOC 2 Type II examinations; administers audit activities through the Vanta GRC platform; drives compliance; and helps maintain a security-focused culture across MRO.
Responsibilities

- Apply applicable regulations, standards, and industry practices—including HITRUST CSF, AICPA Trust Services Criteria for SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, TX-RAMP, PCI DSS, and NIST frameworks—to manage risk, maintain audit readiness, and support compliance.

- Perform process definition/update and deployment across all teams in consultation with the respective functions.

- Identify best practices, drive continuous information security related process improvement and facilitate deployment of information security process changes

- Document the identified Information Security Policies and processes to ensure compliance with legal, regulatory and security standards (e.g. HITRUST, SOC-2, HIPAA, TX-RAMP, PCI-DSS, etc.) and maintain the Information Security Management Systems.

- Perform due diligence for third party contracts and perform periodic 3rd party Risk Assessments.

- Drive and complete Information Security Assessments assigned to MRO by its clients.

- Manage and support Information Security Risk Management Lifecycle across MRO.

- Ensure appropriate treatment of risk, compliance, and assurance from internal and external perspective.

- Own and drive the Information Security Incident Management Program at MRO.

- Lead and coordinate HITRUST readiness and validated assessments and SOC 2 Type II examinations from planning through report issuance, including scope definition, control-owner coordination, evidence collection and quality review, walkthroughs, sampling support, auditor requests, exception management, remediation tracking, and leadership status reporting.

- Use Vanta as the primary GRC and audit management platform to configure frameworks and controls, assign control owners, manage policies and documents, monitor automated tests and integrations, collect and map evidence, manage auditor access and requests, track findings, and drive timely remediation through audit completion.

- Maintain a continuously audit-ready control environment by monitoring evidence status, testing results, control performance, open gaps, and remediation commitments across HITRUST and SOC 2 requirements.

- Drive the phishing simulation program at MRO and focus on its continual improvement.

- Drive Business Impact Analysis, Privacy Impact Analysis across MRO to determine and update applicable RTOs and RPOs.

- Design and participate in Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery efforts across MRO.

- Maintain and update security training material and conduct training programs to coach and guide the teams in deploying the policies and processes

- Supporting departments in collecting security specific metrics, conducting analysis and identifying actions for process improvement

- Prepare and circulate weekly, monthly and quarterly reports for the Infosec team and present it to Infosec leadership team.

- Ensure procedures and playbooks for all sub teams within Infosec team is always up to date.

Qualifications
General Skills:

- Flexibility and ability to shift to operational hands-on activities as needed

- Conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities

- Client management experience

- Speed and quality of deliverable is the key

- Excellent communication and presentation skills

Technical/Domain Skills:

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Required: Demonstrated hands-on experience managing at least one complete HITRUST readiness and validated assessment cycle, including scoping, requirement interpretation, evidence validation, assessor coordination, gap remediation, and certification support.

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Required: Demonstrated hands-o