12-Month Contract: Senior GCP Cloud Security Engineer

Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing; Dhahran Compound; On-site; SAR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian is hiring a Cloud Security Engineer with a strong legacy security background who later specialized in Google Cloud to secure cloud workloads and drive security modernization.

You will deploy and tune Security Command Center, safeguard Kubernetes/GKE workloads, manage IAM, VPC and encryption via Terraform, and migrate legacy controls to Google Cloud, all under a 12-month, extendable contract.

Qualifications

• 5+ years dedicated cloud security experience with deep GCP expertise.
• Strong foundations in cloud concepts and core security principles (CIA triad, zero trust, least privilege, defense in depth).
• Experience securing legacy, non-cloud-native systems (firewalls, IDS/IPS, legacy OS, security appliances).
• Hands-on with Security Command Center, Google SecOps, and GCP data protection tools.
• Strong Kubernetes/GKE security knowledge.
• Terraform experience for security controls (firewall rules, IAM, encryption keys).

Responsibilities

• Deploy and tune Security Command Center, Google SecOps, and GCP data protection tools.
• Secure Kubernetes/GKE workloads and container runtimes.
• Manage IAM, network controls (VPC, Cloud Armor), and encryption (KMS) via Terraform.
• Apply defense-in-depth across network, workload, and data layers.
• Support migration of legacy security controls into GCP.

Skills

Cloud security

GCP security

Kubernetes security

Terraform

Security Command Center

Tools

Security Command Center

GCP data protection tools

Job description

Halian is hiring a Cloud Security Engineer with a strong legacy security background who later specialized in Google Cloud to secure cloud workloads and drive security modernization.

You will deploy and tune Security Command Center, safeguard Kubernetes/GKE workloads, manage IAM, VPC and encryption via Terraform, and migrate legacy controls to Google Cloud, all under a 12-month, extendable contract.