NHS Band 8B GCP Security Architect
Posted 2 weeks ago by 1748685520
£370 Per day
Inside
Remote
Greater London
Summary: The role involves hiring an experienced Google Cloud Security Architect for a large Cloud Migration programme on a rolling one-year remote contract. The architect will be responsible for designing secure cloud architectures, evaluating security tools, ensuring compliance with standards, and leading security assessments for GCP infrastructure. This position requires extensive experience in cloud security architecture, particularly with Google Cloud Platform. The role emphasizes strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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 modelling, 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).
Key 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.
Salary (Rate): £370.00 per day
City: Greater London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
As part of a large Cloud Migration programme my client is looking to hire and experienced Google Cloud Security Architect on a 1 year rolling remote working contract
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 modelling, 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).
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.