GCP Security Architect - Hybrid

RiverSafe
London
2 weeks ago
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Role:

  • Design and implement secure cloud architectures and strategies on GCP.
  • Evaluate and recommend security tools, services and configurations to strengthen cloud security posture.
  • Ensure compliance with security standards and frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, CIS, GDPR and others.
  • Lead threat modeling, risk assessments, and security reviews for GCP infrastructure and applications.
  • Define and enforce Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, including roles, permissions and service accounts.
  • Implement and maintain security monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, SCC).
  • Collaborate with DevOps, engineering, and compliance teams to embed security into the CI/CD pipelines.


Skills:

  • Extensive experience in cloud security architecture, with at least 3 years on Google Cloud Platform.
  • Deep understanding of GCP services such as VPC, IAM, Cloud Armor, KMS, SCC, GKE and others.
  • Strong knowledge of security protocols, authentication, authorisation, encryption and network security.
  • Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with tools like Terraform or Deployment Manager.
  • Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and integrating security into DevOps pipelines.
  • Experience with security assessment tools and methodologies.
  • GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification (preferred).
  • Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
  • Experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure) preferred.

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