Security Consultant

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in technical troubleshooting, and managing internal/external partners or customers.
• Experience in security architecture or security engineering.
• Experience managing internal or external customer-facing projects to completion while working with cross-functional teams.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in cloud security delivered within the context of customer-facing roles.
• Experience securing Google Cloud or other cloud environments.
• Experience understanding attacks and mitigation methods, in two or more of the following: network protocols and secure network design; web application security, security assessments and pen testing, authentication and access control, applied cryptography and security protocols, security monitoring and intrusion detection, incident response and forensics, development of security tools, automation or frameworks.
• Excellent communication, written, presentation and problem-solving skills.

About the job

The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team guides customers through the moments that matter most in their cloud journey to help businesses thrive. We help customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google's global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As part of an innovative team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.

As a Security Consultant, you will provide excellent technical guidance to customers adopting Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services. You will provide best practices on secure foundational cloud implementations, automated provisioning of infrastructure and applications, cloud-ready application architectures, and more. You will provide prescriptive guidance in ensuring customers receive the best of what GCP can offer and you will ensure that customers have the best experience in migrating, building, modernizing, and maintaining applications on GCP.

Additionally, you will work closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to drive excellence in Google Cloud products and features. Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Work with customer development leads, client executives, and partners to manage and deliver successful cloud security architectures, serving as a cloud security and compliance subject matter expert and a trusted advisor to decision makers throughout the engagement.
• Work with internal specialists, Product, and Engineering teams to package approaches, best practices, and lessons learned into thought leadership, methodologies, and published assets.
• Interact with Sales, Partners, and customer technical stakeholders to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks and issues, and timelines for successful client outcomes.
• Travel approximately 30% of the time for client engagements as needed.