Senior Security Engineer, GCP Security Response Operations

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of vulnerability management and incident response coordination.
• 5 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
  
• 5 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
  
• 5 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.
  
• 1 year of experience leading teams in a technical capacity or leading technical risk analysis in an enterprise environment.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Ability to manage stakeholders at executive levels with excellent communication.

About the job

Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. Security Engineers work with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. In this role, you will also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities.

Google Cloud Security Engineering within the Cloud CISO organization is responsible for helping ensure every product Cloud ships is as secure as it can be and increasing the assurance levels of security in the infrastructure underlying all our products. This team will also focus on increasing the capabilities of each product team to develop more secure products by design and by default, from patterns, tools and frameworks to increasing the skill level of embedded security leads. As an information security engineer you will help to ensure that our software and systems are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will perform technical security assessments, code reviews and vulnerability testing to highlight risk, helping Google teams and partners to improve security, and work on a variety of software designs and technology stacks.

Responsibilities

• Conduct security investigations for cloud security and vulnerability incidents by analyzing various data sources to assess risk and impact, and then communicating the findings to key stakeholders.
  
• Manage multiple cross-functional projects and escalations simultaneously, solving complex technical problems that involve interconnected components.
  
• Act as a subject matter expert for broad security domains, understanding how threats can affect different systems and services.
  
• Build and maintain relationships with internal teams, including legal, engineering, and communications, and investigate the impact of security incidents on Google Cloud customers.
  
• Drive positive change by balancing security and business needs, improving overall security capabilities, and demonstrating excellent judgment in handling security incidents.