Google Cloud Security Consultant (Architect)

Google Cloud Security Architect
Location: London
Salary: Competitive salary and package dependent on experience
Career Level: Consultant

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As a team:

We are one of the world's leading providers of cybersecurity solutions. You'll work on innovative projects with colleagues to drive collaboration from strategy through to implementation. You will be using the latest technologies with clients to help them get to the next level. Do you want to work in an environment where you'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that will set you up for success, enable you to develop to your full potential, and drive your career in new and exciting ways.

If you’re looking for a challenging career, working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.  

In our team you will learn:

• How to provide cloud security solutions to real world problems across a variety of industries, whilst referencing past deliveries of end to end machine learning pipelines;
• How to work with our wider Accenture business on large business driven, technology transformation programmes  

As a Cloud Security Consultant, you will:

• Support the delivery of Accenture's cloud security offering (focused on the Google Cloud Platform, including security governance, strategy, risk assessments and management, data protection, cloud-based identity and access management, technology/provider-specific architecture and monitoring/analytics both for and in the cloud
• Design and build GCP cloud security architectures, ensuring security is a core part of the design and development of the clients’ cloud solutions
• Review our clients’ existing cloud security measures and processes, advising on best practices and recommendations based on leading industry insights
• Ensure the appropriate tooling, automation and operational processes and models are in place to support our clients’ journey to cloud.
• Map security controls to compliance requirements for cloud environments 
• Responsible for the thorough documentations of implementations, via technical documentation and run-books on the Google Cloud Platform
• Demonstrate ability to contribute content to business development / proposal efforts
• Conduct cloud security strategy, readiness and discovery assessments; be familiar with cloud security frameworks, compliance requirements and security operations
• Ability to quickly ramp up on new cloud security technologies
• Lead the definition and articulation of security principles and standards to be adopted 

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Shaping and designing top to bottom GCP cloud solutions with a focus on all aspects of security (Network, Infrastructure, Access, Cloud Services, Controls, and SecOps),
• Experience working with senior management (CISO, CIO, CTO, Architecture leads, Application teams, Cloud engineers, Ops and SecOps),
• Partake in efforts that shape the organization’s security policies and standards for use in the GCP cloud environment
• Spot and execute new security technologies and best practices into the company’s Cloud offerings.
• Advising in comparing facets of cloud, creating low level designs, pricing and cost comparisons.
• Familiarity with security themes such as SSL, SSO, SAML, AD and IAM,
• Familiarity with security at all levels such as physical, data at rest, data in transit, networks, firewalls, public key infrastructure and DDOS,
• Knowledge and experience of security standards, procedures, processes, operating models, reviews and automation,
• Knowledge and experience of cloud specific security challenges, designs, solutions and tooling
• Knowledge of the regulatory landscape for public cloud and the implementation patterns required to be compliant,
• Knowledge and experience of third-party landscape and public cloud services that can assist in providing robust security solutions,
• Understanding the value proposition of Cloud with the desire and commitment to become a visionary leader,
• Comfortable working with both waterfall and agile methodologies and exposure across the full delivery lifecycle,
• GCP (and other cloud platform) Security certifications and understanding of current industry best practices.

Set yourself apart:

• Ability to build, manage and foster a team that are specialised in a specific cloud platform 
• Demonstrate ability to lead and manage business development / proposal efforts
• Support business development activities such as sales origination, proposal writing, effort estimation, and client relationship development
• Ability to interpret relevance of security controls to relevant compliance with legal, best-practice, and regulatory requirements for cloud environments
• Ability to translate technical cloud security requirements into business terms for C-level Executive stakeholders
• Engage with Senior account stakeholders to identify requirements, drivers and context, to derive a gap and maturity assessment 
• Conduct cloud security strategy, readiness and discovery assessments; be familiar with cloud security frameworks, compliance requirements and security operations
• Design and develop security architectures for cloud and multi-cloud/hybrid based systems.
• Possess a firm understanding of the native offerings within Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud platforms.