Director, Cybersecurity Audit & Continuous Assurance

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Full description (from Coupang's career page)

We are seeking an exceptionally qualified, technical, and data-driven Director of Cybersecurity Audit & Continuous Assurance (Technical Program Management) to join our IT Internal Audit leadership team in Seoul, South Korea. Reporting directly to the Head of IT Audit, this role will serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for enterprise cybersecurity risks and technical audit execution across our high-scale, cloud-native e-commerce platforms.

In an era of hyper-scale e-commerce, traditional periodic auditing alone is insufficient. This leader will lead the execution of our global cybersecurity audit strategy while architecting and scaling an advanced Continuous Cybersecurity Control Monitoring (CCCM) and Automated Assurance Validation framework. By blending deep technical cybersecurity domain expertise with data engineering and analytics capabilities, this role will collaborate with relevant teams to develop methods to enhance identification, measurements, and mitigation of cyber risks across complex, microservice-based engineered systems.

Key Responsibilities

Cybersecurity Audit Strategy & Execution

• Assist in development and execution of the enterprise cybersecurity audit plan, continuously refining audit coverage based on emerging threats, architectural shifts, and global regulatory mandates.

• Lead technical audits covering cloud security infrastructure, identity and access management (IAM), zero-trust architecture, CI/CD pipelines, container security, network telemetry, and data loss prevention (DLP).

• Act as the principal SME within IT Internal Audit for security engineering, cryptography, security operations (SOC), threat hunting, and vulnerability management.

• Partner closely with Information Security, Compliance, Privacy, Cloud Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, and Software Engineering leadership to drive proactive risk mitigation and remediate audit findings.

• Provide clear, data-backed reports and briefings to leadership stakeholders

Continuous Monitoring & Assurance Automation

• Architect and lead the implementation of a continuous cybersecurity control monitoring strategy

• Design scripts, queries, and automated testing routines to transition high-risk controls from periodic manual sampling to near-real-time automated validation.

• Work with key stakeholders to develop custom security control dashboards and risk observability tools using automated log ingestion (SIEM/Data Lake) to detect control drift, anomalies, and policy non-compliance instantly.

• Establish standardized technical audit methodologies, script repositories, automated testing SOPs, and analytics frameworks for the broader IT Audit function.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a quantitative data field, combined with 12+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity engineering, cyber risk, or technical cybersecurity auditing within large-scale or publicly traded technology/e-commerce organizations.

• Strong hands-on knowledge of cloud security architectures (AWS/Azure), distributed systems, modern API security, microservices, and containerized deployments (Kubernetes/Docker).

• Deep technical mastery of recognized security frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001/27002, CIS Benchmarks, NIST 800-53, ISMS/K-ISMS-P).

• Based in (or willing to relocate as an expatriate to) Seoul, South Korea.

• Fluent in English with strong technical communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience building or managing continuous auditing/monitoring systems, data analytics pipelines, or security control observability frameworks using SQL, Python, or data platform tools.

• Active professional security credentials such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, or CCSP.

• Proven track record auditing or securing hyper-scale e-commerce platforms, payment systems (PCI-DSS), or high-volume transactional microservice environments.

• Experience utilizing SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk, Elastic Search) or cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, AWS Athena/Redshift) to write continuous control monitoring queries and automated alert mechanisms.

• Familiarity leveraging AI/ML tooling or intelligent automation for anomaly detection, evidence extraction, and risk profiling.

• Knowledge of Korean cybersecurity/privacy regulatory landscapes (K-ISMS-P, PIPA).

• Working knowledge or professional proficiency in the Korean language is a significant plus.

Recruitment Process and Others

Recruitment Process

Application Review – Job Fit Interview - Focus Interviews - Offer
The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances.
Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage.

Things to Consider

This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled.
Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process.
Coupang does not discriminate against disabled applicants or those with veteran status. We are proud to offer equal opportunities for all applicants.

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https://www.coupang.jobs/en/privacy-policy/

Document Return Policy

This notification is given pursuant to Article 11 (6) of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act.
A job applicant, who has applied but not been finally selected for a position at Coupang (the “ Company ”), may request the Company to return his/her hiring documents submitted pursuant to the Fair Hiring Procedure Act. However, this will not apply where the hiring documents were submitted via the website of the Company or e-mail, or where the job applicant submitted those documents voluntarily without a request from the Company. In addition, if the hiring documents were destroyed due to a natural disaster or any other reasons not attributable to the Company, such documents will be deemed to have been returned to the job applicant.
A job applicant who wishes to request the return of his/her hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above should fill out a “Request for Return of Hiring Documents” [Annex Form No. 3 in the Enforcement Rule of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act] and submit the request to the Company by email (recruitingops@coupang.com) In such case, within fourteen (14) days from the date of identifying the receipt of the request, the Company will send the hiring documents to the job applicant’s designated address via registered mail. Please be informed that the job applicant is required to pay the postage on the registered mail.
In preparation for a job applicant’s request for the return of hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above, the Company shall retain the original hiring documents submitted by the job applicant for 180 days from the completion of the recruiting process. If no request is made until the end of this period, all of his/her hiring documents will be destroyed immediately in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act.

Equal Opportunities for All

Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. Our unprecedented success could not be possible without the valuable inputs of our globally diverse team.

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