GCP Security Architect - Hybrid

RiverSafe; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the cybersecurity sector is seeking a Security Architect to design and implement secure cloud architectures on Google Cloud Platform. The role involves evaluating security tools, ensuring compliance with standards, and collaborating with DevOps teams to enhance security in CI/CD pipelines. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in cloud security architecture and a strong understanding of GCP services.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years experience on Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure cloud architectures on GCP.
• Lead threat modeling, risk assessments, and security reviews for GCP.

Skills

cloud security architecture

GCP services

security protocols

Infrastructure as Code

DevSecOps practices

security assessment tools

communication

multi-cloud environments

Education

GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification

Tools

Terraform

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• Design and implement secure cloud architectures and strategies on GCP.
• Evaluate and recommend security tools, services and configurations to strengthen cloud security posture.
• Ensure compliance with security standards and frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, CIS, GDPR and others.
• Lead threat modeling, risk assessments, and security reviews for GCP infrastructure and applications.
• Define and enforce Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, including roles, permissions and service accounts.
• Implement and maintain security monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, SCC).
• Collaborate with DevOps, engineering, and compliance teams to embed security into the CI/CD pipelines.

Skills:

• Extensive experience in cloud security architecture, with at least 3 years on Google Cloud Platform.
• Deep understanding of GCP services such as VPC, IAM, Cloud Armor, KMS, SCC, GKE and others.
• Strong knowledge of security protocols, authentication, authorisation, encryption and network security.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with tools like Terraform or Deployment Manager.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and integrating security into DevOps pipelines.
• Experience with security assessment tools and methodologies.
• GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification (preferred).
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure) preferred.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Computer and Network Security and IT Services and IT Consulting

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