Strategic Cloud Engineer, Security and Compliance, Professional Services

About the job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google’s global network, web-scale data centers and software infrastructure. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

As a Strategic Cloud Engineer for Security and Compliance, you'll provide excellent technical guidance to customers adopting Google Cloud Platform services. You will provide best practices on secure foundational cloud implementations, automated provisioning of infrastructure and applications, cloud-ready application architectures, and more.

You'll provide prescriptive guidance in ensuring customers receive the best of what Google Cloud Platform (GCP) can offer and you will ensure that customers have the best experience in migrating, building, modernizing, and maintaining applications in Google Cloud Platform. Additionally, you will work closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to drive excellence in Google Cloud products and features.

Google Cloud provides organizations with leading infrastructure, platform capabilities and industry solutions. We deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology to help companies operate more efficiently and adapt to changing needs, giving customers a foundation for the future. Customers in more than 150 countries turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Provide deep domain expertise in cloud security and compliance and be a trusted technical advisor to customers and solve complex cloud security and compliance challenges.
• Work with customers to design and develop cloud security architectures and solutions to meet and exceed their security requirements, through deep dive discussions, strategic presentations/recommendations, and hands on implementation in Google Cloud environment.
• Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations adapting to different levels of key business and technical stakeholders. Communicate effectively via video conferencing for meetings, technical reviews and onsite delivery activities.
• Manage disparate senior stakeholders within customer environments to deliver consensus and drive positive customer outcomes on the Google Cloud platform.
• Travel up to 30%

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience managing internal/client-facing projects to completion, and working with engineering teams, sales, services and customers.
• Experience architecting, developing, or maintaining secure cloud solutions (e.g., Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience with identity/access management, network security, data protection, cryptography, and pen testing.

Preferred qualifications:

• 7 years of security architecture and/or security engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience in Cloud Security delivered within the context of customer facing roles.
• Experience understanding attacks and mitigation methods, in two or more of the following: network protocols and secure network design, operating system internals and hardening, web application security, security assessments and penetration testing, authentication and access control, applied cryptography and security protocols, security monitoring and intrusion detection, incident response and forensics, development of security tools, automation or frameworks.
• Strong practical experience securing Kubernetes and containerization workloads.
• Hands on and deep knowledge of security principles.