Only W2- Junior Cybersecurity Specialist

ReqRoute,Inc; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

ReqRoute,Inc is seeking a Junior Cybersecurity Specialist in Phoenix, AZ, a hybrid role, to join our security engineering team. You will work with Google Cloud Platform, implement policy-as-code, and help deploy secure-by-default cloud configurations.

Candidates should have 1–5 years of cloud security experience, a degree in a technical field, and hands-on experience with Terraform and Sentinel. You will collaborate with engineering, sales, and customers to resolve deployment obstacles and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in a technical field or equivalent work experience.
• 1-5+ years of experience with Google Cloud IAM, VPC, Cloud Logging, and security controls.
• Experience with Policy as Code (PaC) and Terraform, focusing on secure configurations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enforce policy-as-code frameworks for IaC deployments.
• Improve PaC and guardrails across cloud platforms to enforce secure defaults.
• Analyze cloud native offerings and document controls, standards, processes and procedures.
• Define and develop policy-as-code frameworks for IaC deployment pipelines (Terraform).
• Collaborate with CNAPP to enforce secure-by-default configurations and cloud security governance.
• Act as consultant for internal stakeholders to resolve deployment obstacles and optimize Google Cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Google Cloud

Cloud IAM

VPC

Cloud Logging

Security controls

Terraform

Sentinel

Go

Java

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline

Tools

Terraform

Sentinel

Job description

Junior Cybersecurity Specialist

Location: Phoenix, AZ - Hybrid

Only W2 (No C2C)

Responsibilities

• Bachelors or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
• 1-5 + years of experience with Google Cloud Infrastructure foundational capabilities IAM, VPC, Cloud Logging, Security controls, Storage and Compute
• 1-5 + years of experience with Policy as a Code (Sentinel), Infrastructure automation tools (Terraform) and with a focus on implementing security controls for all type of cloud native infrastructure
• Evaluating the cloud native offerings and documenting controls, standards, processes, and procedures
• Perform feasibility of study to define the convert the controls into scope for policy as a code enablement
• Define and developing policy-as-code frameworks (e.g., Sentinel and cloud native) for Infrastructure-as-Code deployment pipeline (e.g., Terraform)
• Improve PaC (policy-as-code) and guardrails (Sentinel, native cloud policies) by closely working with CNAPP to enforce secure-by-default configurations across cloud platforms
• In-depth understanding of Public Cloud native offerings related to Compute, Storage, Data, Telephony, Agentic AI and underlying architectures for troubleshooting, reproducing, and determining the root cause for customer-reported issues and enabling policies
• Understanding of cloud architecture to ensure high availability while ensuring the highest level of security and visibility
• Experience with Network Isolation, Data Security, Identity, Logging and Monitoring tools such as Cloud logging, metrics, XQL and other mechanism
• FinOps (cloud) domain knowledge preferred
• Software development experience in one of the OO programming language: Java, Go and or Python
• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions
• Willingness to learn new technologies quickly and exploit them to their optimal potential
• Act as consultant and subject matter expert for internal stakeholders in engineering, sales, customer organizations to resolve technical deployment obstacles and improve Google Cloud Infrastructure

Every member of the Software Engineering team should be able to demonstrate the following technical, functional, leadership, and business skills:

• Agile Practices
• Porting/Software Configuration
• Programming Languages and Framework Development
• Business Analysis
• Analytical Thinking
• Business Product Knowledge
• Google Cloud Security & Infrastructure - Strong experience with GCP services including IAM, VPC, Cloud Logging, Security Controls, Compute, and Storage, with a solid understanding of cloud-native architecture and security.
• Policy as Code (PaC) & Terraform - Hands-on expertise in implementing Policy-as-Code using Sentinel and Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, including cloud security guardrails and automated policy enforcement.
• Cloud Security Engineering & CNAPP - Experience defining security controls, standards, and governance frameworks, along with expertise in Network Security, Identity, Data Security, Logging/Monitoring, and CNAPP-driven secure-by-default cloud deployments.