[Remote] Principal Google Cloud Security Consultant

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coalfire is on a mission to make the world a safer place by solving clients’ hardest cybersecurity challenges. They are seeking a Principal Google Cloud Security Consultant to serve as a senior advisor and technical architect for enterprise Google Cloud security engagements, helping clients design and operationalize secure Google Cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead secure Google Cloud architecture design and reviews across IAM, networking, workload protection, data protection, logging, monitoring, and compliance
• Advise enterprise customers on Google Cloud security strategy aligned to business risk, regulatory requirements, and operating priorities
• Lead Google Cloud security posture assessments to identify high-impact risks, misconfigurations, control gaps, and operational weaknesses
• Develop executive-ready findings, prioritized remediation roadmaps, and maturity-based security improvement plans
• Lead Security Command Center and Security Command Center Enterprise implementation, configuration, tuning, and operationalization
• Integrate Security Command Center findings into vulnerability management, compliance, security operations, and executive risk reporting workflows
• Advise customers on Google SecOps, Chronicle, SIEM strategy, cloud telemetry strategy, detection engineering, and SOC workflow design
• Support SIEM modernization and migration planning, including log source rationalization, detection migration, alert tuning, and operational transition
• Help customers move from fragmented monitoring approaches into scalable, cloud-native security operations models
• Own complex technical workstreams from discovery through delivery, including technical direction, scope, risks, and stakeholder coordination
• Translate technical security findings into clear business risks, investment priorities, and actionable recommendations for senior leaders
• Guide customer teams through secure Google Cloud design, configuration, deployment, and operational maturity decisions
• Advise customers on Wiz use cases such as CNAPP, CSPM, vulnerability prioritization, attack path analysis, entitlement risk, and remediation workflows
• Advise on Vertex AI and AI workload security, including identity, access control, data protection, governance, logging, and monitoring
• Create architecture diagrams, assessment deliverables, roadmaps, implementation documentation, and operational runbooks
• Develop repeatable methodologies, assessment frameworks, implementation patterns, reference architectures, and reusable technical assets
• Mentor consultants and help raise the overall capability of the Google Cloud Security practice
• Provide technical leadership during client reviews, executive briefings, architecture discussions, and operational meetings
• Contribute to process improvement and automation initiatives that improve consistency, scalability, and delivery quality

Skills

• 8 years of security consulting experience spanning various domains with at least 4 years experience directly working as a Google Cloud consultant
• Proven track record delivering Google Cloud security architecture, posture modernization, and operationalization outcomes from discovery through handover
• Hands-on leadership in cloud security projects across security, cloud, DevOps, architecture, compliance, and operations teams
• Documented success integrating cloud-native security platforms, SIEM, CNAPP/CSPM, logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, and SOC workflows
• History working under regulatory or industry frameworks such as FedRAMP, FISMA, HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI, CMMC, or similar standards
• Demonstrable client-facing consulting experience, maintaining professionalism and clear communication in ambiguous, high-stakes, or fast-paced engagements
• 6 years of security consulting experience spanning various domains with at least 2 years experience directly working as a Google Cloud consultant
• Deep experience designing, securing, deploying, and operationalizing Google Cloud environments
• Strong expertise in Google Cloud security architecture, IAM, networking, logging, monitoring, data protection, workload security, and compliance-oriented design
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud security services, including Security Command Center or equivalent cloud-native security platforms
• Experience leading cloud security posture assessments, architecture reviews, or enterprise cloud security modernization efforts
• Proven ability to lead complex technical engagements with multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and enterprise-scale environments
• Highly adaptable consulting mindset with the ability to move between strategy, architecture, implementation, delivery leadership, and executive advisory work
• Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to brief executives and guide technical teams
• Strong documentation skills for creating diagrams, assessment reports, roadmaps, implementation plans, written recommendations, and supporting materials
• Critical thinking skills to balance security requirements against business objectives, operational realities, and customer maturity
• Proven track record adapting quickly and efficiently in fast-paced, dynamic customer environments
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect
• Google Cloud Professional Security Operations Engineer or equivalent Google Cloud security experience
• Google Cloud certifications: Professional Cloud Security Engineer, Professional Security Operations Engineer, or Professional Cloud Architect
• Security Command Center Enterprise: Experience implementing, configuring, tuning, or operationalizing SCC Enterprise
• Wiz experience: Experience with CNAPP, CSPM, vulnerability prioritization, attack path analysis, entitlement risk, and remediation workflows
• Google SecOps and SIEM modernization: Experience with Chronicle, SIEM architecture, telemetry strategy, detection engineering, or SIEM migration
• Vertex AI security: Experience advising on AI governance, workload isolation, access controls, logging, monitoring, and secure deployment patterns
• Practice development: Ability to create reusable methodologies, delivery accelerators, reference architectures, and practice-level intellectual property
• Wiz, Google SecOps/Chronicle, SIEM migration, Vertex AI security, Terraform, or related cloud security skills

Benefits

• Flexible work model that empowers you to choose when and where you’ll work most effectively – whether you’re at home or an office
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible time off
• Certification and training reimbursement
• Digital mental health and wellbeing support membership
• Comprehensive insurance options
• Opportunities to join employee resource groups
• Participate in in-person and virtual events

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