GCP Cloud Security Engineer

Insight Global; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global seeks experienced Cloud Security Engineers to drive secure multi-cloud initiatives across AWS and GCP. You will design, deploy, and automate security controls, focusing on IAM, workload identity federation, and perimeters while reducing attack surfaces.

You will implement guardrails, secure configurations, and compliant reporting, collaborating with platform and application teams. Strong coding, automation, and cross-cloud collaboration are essential in this engineering-focused

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing cloud security controls across AWS and GCP environments.
• Strong IAM, OIDC, workload identity federation, and RBAC know-how.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform or Deployment Manager) required.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and automate cloud security controls across AWS and GCP environments.
• Implement modern authentication and authorization solutions (IAM, OIDC, workload identity federation).
• Develop and enforce cloud guardrails, perimeters, and deny-by-default policies.
• Build IaC and automation to support security deployment, credential management, and compliance reporting.
• Enable cloud audit logging, SIEM pipelines, detections, and incident response across platforms.

Skills

Cloud security engineering

IAM and access management

Infra as code

Kubernetes security

Logging and detection engineering

Cloud network security

Scripting (Python/Go)

Multi-cloud security

Security automation

Education

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification

Security certifications or training

Tools

Terraform

Deployment Manager

Cloud Security Command Center

VPC Service Controls

Chronicle / Splunk

GitHub OIDC integration

Job description

Job Description

We are seeking experienced Cloud Security Engineers to support the implementation of critical cloud security initiatives across AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments. This role is highly hands-on and focused on building, deploying, automating, and operationalizing security controls across a large-scale multi-cloud ecosystem.

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in cloud-native security, identity and access management, infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes security, logging and detection engineering, and cloud network security. This is an engineering-focused role requiring practitioners who can implement solutions, write code, automate controls, and partner closely with platform and application teams.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and automate cloud security controls across AWS and GCP environments, with a focus on identity security, cloud infrastructure protection, and attack surface reduction.

Implement modern authentication and authorization solutions, including IAM, OIDC, workload identity federation, service accounts, and role-based access controls, while leading efforts to eliminate long-lived credentials and adopt short-lived identities.

Develop and enforce cloud security guardrails, data perimeter protections, default-deny access models, and security policies that reduce unauthorized access, lateral movement, and data exposure risks across multi-cloud environments.

Build infrastructure-as-code and automation solutions to support security deployment, credential management, compliance reporting, monitoring, and policy enforcement at scale.

Enable, integrate, and maintain cloud audit logging, monitoring, SIEM pipelines, security detections, and incident response capabilities across AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, GitHub, and related platforms.

Develop detections and automated response mechanisms for credential abuse, anomalous activity, unauthorized access attempts, and potential data exfiltration events.

Secure Kubernetes and containerized environments by implementing hardened configurations, secure deployment patterns, access controls, and cloud-native security best practices.

Design and implement security protections for internet-facing applications and infrastructure, including Cloudflare WAF, DDoS protection, secure ingress patterns, and private-by-default cloud architectures.

Identify, assess, and remediate security vulnerabilities, exposed cloud resources, insecure network paths, and application security risks through proactive testing, monitoring, and validation activities.

Partner closely with cloud, platform, infrastructure, and application engineering teams to implement security solutions, support cloud migrations, establish operational playbooks, and improve the overall security posture of large-scale cloud environments.

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Skills and Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) security engineering
• Deep expertise with GCP IAM (service accounts, Workload Identity Federation, organization policies)
• Experience implementing and managing VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC) including perimeters, access levels, and egress policies
• Proficiency with Cloud Audit Logs, Security Command Center, and Cloud Logging
• Hands-on experience with credential management and migration from service account keys to Workload Identity Federation
• Strong infrastructure-as-code skills (Terraform or Deployment Manager)
• Experience with GCP networking security (VPCs, firewall rules, Private Google Access, Private Service Connect)
• Familiarity with organization policy constraints and preventive guardrails
• Ability to write automation scripts (Python, Go, or similar)
• Experience working in multi-project GCP environments with organizational hierarchy
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to produce operational playbooks and runbooks
• Familiarity with Kubernetes (GKE) security and AKS audit logging - Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification
• Experience enforcing VPC Service Controls in production with documented egress allowlists
• Hands-on experience migrating workloads from static service account keys to Workload Identity Federation / OIDC
• Familiarity with SIEM integration and detection engineering on GCP (Chronicle, Splunk, or similar)
• Experience with GCP data-plane controls (BigQuery, GCS, Secret Manager access restrictions)
• Prior work in a staff augmentation or consulting engagement model
• Experience in regulated or high-security environments (SOC 2, FedRAMP, or similar)
• Familiarity with GitHub OIDC integration for GCP Workload Identity
• Experience building reusable security patterns, IaC modules, and migration playbooks for enterprise-wide adoption