Charles Schwab · 18 hours ago
Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer - GCP Specialist
Austin, TX, US
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$150K/yr - $160K/yr
1+ years expCharles Schwab is seeking a Sr Cloud Security Engineer with deep expertise in GCP Cybersecurity to join their dynamic team. The role involves innovating, designing, and implementing cybersecurity capabilities to safeguard cloud and cloud-based workloads in GCP.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Engineering, implementing, and monitoring security measures for the protection of GCP Cloud Infrastructure and integrations
Builds and maintains the security footprint to bring continuous advancement and maturity
Assists IT operations and security owners to implement scalable security capabilities and processes
Recommend, implement and deliver new security technology capabilities and their applicability within the greater organization
Champion and contribute to the organization’s security policies and standards for use in the GCP cloud environments and helps across other known CSP platforms
Interpreting security and technical requirements into business requirements and communicating security risks to relevant partners ranging from business leaders to engineers
Advising and influencing multi-disciplinary teams in implementing and operating Cyber Security controls
Help implement policy-as-code and security-as-automation, adopting IAC and the CICD/SDLC lifecycle towards all cloud activities
Collaborating with application developers and database administrators to deliver creative solutions to difficult technology challenges and business requirements
Applying adept understanding and experience with systems automation platforms and technologies
Providing domain expertise on information security architecture and systems engineering to other IT and business teams
Implementing security architectures for cloud/hybrid systems
Automating security controls, data, and processes to provide improved metrics and operational support
Employing cloud-based APIs when suitable to write network/system level tools for safeguarding our GCP cloud environments
Ensuring accurate metrics of security performance, and maturity over time
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
1-5 years' experience managing security controls with GCP
1-5 years' experience managing security controls in any other cloud environments is a plus
1-3 years database administration experience is also a plus
Knowledge to spot and implement new security technologies and standard methodologies into the company's cloud offerings
Experience in a highly regulated industry, ideally in the financial services industry
Experience in working with Cloud native security tools such as: Wiz, Prisma, Orca Security, Zscaler
Experience working with Bicep, Crossplane, Ansible, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation or Pulumi
Experience working in DevSecOps environments with complete CI/CD solutions and developer tools such as: Gitlab, Github, Bamboo, Bitbucket, etc
Preferred
Relevant cybersecurity certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CCSK and/or GCP cybersecurity certifications
An interest and desire to stay on top of emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and controls
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate complex concepts to technical and people leaders in the organization
Benefits
Bonus or incentive opportunities
Company
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