GCP Cloud Security Architect : Platform & Enterprise Security

GCP Cloud Security Architect Platform & Enterprise Security

Role Overview:
Lead enterprise-wide GCP security posture reviews, architect secure GCP landing zones, and secure Kubernetes/GKE workloads holistic platform security.

Primary Skill Set:
1. GCP Security Posture Review & Enterprise Architecture (SCC, VPC-SC, DLP, Cloud Armor)

2. GKE/Kubernetes Security

3. Network Security (VPC, Firewalls) Enterprise scale

Secondary Skill set
1. Terraform (secure landing zone automation)

2. IAM (supporting role-based access design)

Key Responsibilities:
-Conduct GCP security posture assessments (SCC) & remediate

- Architect secure GCP landing zones

- Harden GKE clusters (RBAC, network policies, workload identity)

- Implement Cloud Armor, VPC-SC, Cloud DLP

- Embed security into CI/CD & IaC pipelines

- Define security architecture standards/guardrails

- Present risk/roadmap to leadership

Minimum Requirements:
- 7–10+ years in cloud security architecture, 3+ years GCP-focused

- Strong knowledge of GCP-native security tooling (SCC, Cloud Armor, VPC-SC, DLP)

- Experience securing Kubernetes/GKE at scale

Preferred Requirements:
- GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer/Architect certification strongly preferred