Lead GCP Security Controls Engineer - VP

Morgan Stanley; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Lead GCP Platform Cloud Security Controls Engineer, VP, in Alpharetta, GA, to drive hands-on cloud security work across enterprise GCP. You’ll convert security requirements into preventive, detective, and corrective controls, and own the end-to-end implementation lifecycle.

The role requires deep policy-writing skill, strong knowledge of GCP security architecture, and collaboration with platform engineering, security, and risk teams to ensure secure deployments and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Security, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years hands-on cloud security, platform security, security engineering, or cloud control engineering experience.
• Production experience implementing security controls in GCP, including policy authoring, testing, deployment, and operational support.
• Hands-on experience with GCP organization policies and IAM, VPC Service Controls, Security Command Center, Cloud Logging, and related native security capabilities.
• Experience authoring cloud-native preventive policies, with GCP experience preferred; comparable AWS/Azure guardrails is relevant.
• Ability to translate security requirements into clear technical control logic, test cases, and implementation evidence.
• Strong understanding of GCP security architecture: IAM, networking, perimeters, encryption, and data protection.
• Experience with policy/automation code, version control, unit/integration testing, and release management.
• Ability to communicate decisions, risks, dependencies, and status to engineers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, coding, testing, deployment, and operation of GCP-native security controls across enterprise organizations and workloads.
• Translate requirements into automated, testable, enforceable cloud security policies.
• Author and maintain GCP organization policies, IAM guardrails, network and data-perimeter controls.
• Implement detective and runtime controls using GCP services, CSPM, logging, and telemetry.
• Design remediation workflows and ownership assignments for control violations.
• Own end-to-end control implementation lifecycle from design to retirement.
• Determine effective enforcement points and compensating controls when needed.
• Build reusable policy libraries and implementation standards for consistency and speed.
• Collaborate with GCP platform engineering, security architecture, risk, and incident response teams.
• Troubleshoot control failures, false positives, pipeline issues, and production security events.

Skills

GCP Security

Cloud Security Engineering

Policy as Code

CI/CD Security

IAM & Guardrails

Runtime CSPM

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GCP IAM

VPC Service Controls

Security Command Center

Job description

In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities.

This is a Lead Cyber Security Engineering position at VP which is part of the job family responsible for providing specialist cyber expertise and creating solutions that protect the organization's systems and networks against actual and potential security threats and vulnerabilities.

Morgan Stanley Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, continuously evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

Cyber, Data, Risk & Resilience:

Cyber, Data, Risk & Resilience delivers first-line defenses to manage technology, information, and cyber risk through risk identification, control management, and assurance. The organization helps the business operate and grow securely, comply with applicable obligations, and respond to an evolving threat landscape.

Role Profile:

The Cloud Security Engineering team enables secure adoption of cloud-native technologies at enterprise scale. We design, implement, test, and operate security controls that protect cloud platforms and make secure deployment easier for application and infrastructure teams.

We are seeking a Lead GCP Platform Cloud Security Controls Engineer, VP, to lead the hands-on implementation of cloud-native security checks for the GCP platform. The successful candidate will convert security requirements into preventive, detective, and corrective controls across organization-level guardrails, infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD workflows, and runtime/CSPM monitoring. This role requires deep technical control implementation experience, strong policy-writing skills, and the ability to connect deploy-time prevention with runtime assurance and remediation.

What You Will Do In The Role:

• Lead the design, coding, testing, deployment, and operation of GCP-native security controls across enterprise GCP organizations, folders, projects, and workloads.
• Translate configuration baseline, architecture, risk, and regulatory requirements into automated, testable, and enforceable cloud security policies.
• Author and maintain GCP organization policies, IAM-related guardrails, network and data-perimeter controls, and other native GCP policy mechanisms.
• Implement detective and runtime controls using GCP-native security services, CSPM capabilities, logging, telemetry, event-driven automation, and drift detection.
• Design corrective workflows and remediation automation for control violations, including clear ownership, prioritization, exception handling, and evidence capture.
• Own the end-to-end control implementation lifecycle: requirement interpretation, technical design, policy authoring, peer review, unit and integration testing, controlled rollout, monitoring, tuning, documentation, and retirement.
• Determine the most effective enforcement point for each requirement and identify compensating controls when preventive enforcement is not technically feasible.
• Build reusable policy libraries, common test patterns, modules, and implementation standards that improve consistency and delivery speed.
• Partner with GCP platform engineering, application teams, security architecture, risk, incident response, and control-assurance stakeholders.
• Troubleshoot complex control failures, false positives, pipeline issues, policy conflicts, and production security events; drive root-cause resolution.
• Define implementation metrics and technical evidence that demonstrate control coverage, effectiveness, exceptions, and remediation status.
• Provide technical direction, code and design review, and hands-on mentorship to engineers while maintaining direct involvement in critical implementations.

What You Bring To The Role

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on cloud security, platform security, security engineering, or cloud control engineering experience.
• Demonstrated production experience implementing security controls in GCP, including direct policy authoring, testing, deployment, and operational support.
• Hands-on experience with GCP organization policies and one or more relevant native security capabilities such as IAM, VPC Service Controls, Security Command Center, Cloud Logging, event-driven services, or organization-level governance.
• Experience authoring cloud-native preventive policies, with GCP experience preferred; comparable experience with AWS Service Control Policies, Azure Policy, or similar guardrail frameworks is relevant.
• Ability to translate written security requirements into clear technical control logic, test cases, acceptance criteria, and implementation evidence.
• Strong understanding of GCP security architecture, including identity and access management, networking, service perimeters, encryption and key management, logging, workload security, and data protection.
• Experience with software engineering practices for policy and automation code, including version control, peer review, unit testing, integration testing, release management, and troubleshooting.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions, risks, dependencies, and implementation status to engineering teams and senior stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with policy-as-code technologies such as OPA/Rego, Conftest, Terraform policy frameworks, or comparable validation engines.
• Experience implementing runtime or CSPM controls, including posture evaluation, cloud configuration monitoring, drift detection, alert tuning, and remediation workflows.
• Practical experience integrating security checks and enforcement gates into CI/CD pipelines using Git-based engineering workflows.
• Experience designing event-driven corrective controls using GCP serverless services and cloud telemetry.
• Experience integrating CSPM platforms with native GCP controls and deploy-time policy enforcement.
• Experience building shared policy libraries or control frameworks for multiple teams, environments, or cloud services.
• Experience working in a regulated enterprise and producing traceable control implementation evidence.
• Relevant GCP security or professional cloud certification.
• Experience in at least one scripting or programming language such as Python, Go, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers while remaining hands-on with architecture, code, testing, and incident troubleshooting.

Leadership and Collaboration

• Set technical direction and implementation standards for GCP platform security controls.
• Mentor engineers in cloud-native policy design, Terraform, secure delivery pipelines, runtime assurance, testing, and operability.
• Create a high-accountability engineering culture with clear ownership, practical documentation, strong reviews, and measurable outcomes.
• Influence platform and application designs through credible, hands-on engineering expertise and constructive cross-functional partnership.

What You Can Expect:

You will work with skilled engineers and security professionals in an environment that values technical depth, intellectual rigor, collaboration, and responsible innovation. The role offers the opportunity to shape cloud security controls at enterprise scale and improve how security requirements are implemented, measured, and sustained across the GCP platform.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

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