Senior Cloud Security Engineer – GCP & Edge Defenses

NinjaTrader; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

NinjaTrader seeks a Staff Cloud Security Engineer to lead the security of our cloud platform and define the technical direction for secure workloads in GCP. You will shape guardrails, influence architecture decisions, and collaborate across the org to maintain strong security posture.

This hands-on IC role focuses on secure by design systems, incident response, and driving security maturity while partnering with SOC, GRC, and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in security engineering with cloud focus.
• 5+ years securing GCP in production environments.
• Deep hands-on with GCP IAM, VPC, KMS and Security Command Center.
• Experience with Cloudflare WAF, DDoS Protection, Zero Trust, Bot Management and GCP Armor.
• IaC with Terraform and securing CI/CD pipelines.
• Python or Go for automation and tooling.
• Experience in regulated industries with PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO, SOX.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and influence without authority.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud security architecture across our GCP environments including IAM, VPC controls, and KMS.
• Design edge and application-layer defenses using Cloudflare and Google Cloud Armor.
• Lead threat modeling and security reviews for new services and platform changes.
• Build security guardrails as code through policy-as-code and secure Terraform modules.
• Advance cloud detection and response with SOC and Incident Response teams.
• Serve as senior technical responder during security incidents and post-incident hardening.
• Translate regulatory requirements into scalable technical controls with GRC.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise security maturity.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security

Google Cloud Platform

Terraform

CI/CD security

Python/Go

Regulated industries

Technical leadership

Tools

Terraform

Cloudflare

Google Cloud Armor

Job description

NinjaTrader seeks a Staff Cloud Security Engineer to lead the security of our cloud platform and define the technical direction for secure workloads in GCP. You will shape guardrails, influence architecture decisions, and collaborate across the org to maintain strong security posture.

This hands-on IC role focuses on secure by design systems, incident response, and driving security maturity while partnering with SOC, GRC, and engineering teams.