Senior Cyber Security Engineer

We are seeking a Principal Security Engineer to lead and drive security engineering efforts across our cloud and application environments. This strategic, hands-on role requires expertise in cloud security, secure development practices, and the implementation of advanced security controls. You will serve as a leader within the Consumer Security Engineering team, driving security initiatives across cloud platforms, microservice architectures, digital products, application security, and enterprise security.

You will define and build comprehensive security strategies in collaboration with developers, DevSecOps, and enterprise security operations, ensuring that security is seamlessly integrated into our CI/CD pipelines and all layers of infrastructure. Additionally, you will oversee security tool management and ensure cyber resiliency for consumer applications. A deep understanding of Google Cloud Security, Application Security, API security, and customer security systems is essential.

Key Responsibilities:

·       Design and Implement Security Strategy: Develop and implement the security strategy for cloud platforms, microservice-based applications, and CI/CD environments, with a focus on both application and enterprise security.

·       Ownership of Consumer Security Capabilities: Own the consumer security capabilities and tools (WAFs, GCP Security Controls, Customer Identity Protection, IAM, Encryption etc.) by establishing a clear operating model that ensures all teams are engaged and actively adopting industry-standard security designs

·       Enforce Security Best Practices: Build and enforce security best practices across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments, ensuring robust identity and access management (IAM), network security, and encryption, in compliance with industry standards.

·       Integrate Application Security: Drive the integration of application security practices, including secure coding and vulnerability management, throughout the software development lifecycle for all the projects.

·       Drive Security Tool Implementation: Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of enterprise security tools and technologies that align with organizational business and security requirements, while owning and operating these tools effectively.

·       Maintain Cyber Resiliency and Recovery: Develop and implement strategies to maintain cyber resiliency and recovery for consumer organisation, ensuring the organisation can withstand and recover from security incidents.

·       Build Reusable Security Controls: Create and promote reusable security controls that can be applied across multiple projects and platforms to enhance security efficiency.

·       Security Metrics Delivery and Improvements: Develop, deliver, and continuously enhance security metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of security initiatives, drive accountability, and inform data-driven decision-making across the organization.

·       Develop Security Chapter: Lead the security chapter to promote best practices, knowledge sharing, and collaboration among security and engineering teams.

·       Lead and Mentor Security Engineers: Mentor and lead a growing team of security engineers, focusing on skill development, performance management, and team growth.

·       Partner for Comprehensive Risk Management: Collaborate with other security functions to ensure comprehensive risk management strategies are in place.

·       Ensure Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant security standards (e.g., GDPR, PCI DSS) and regulatory requirements, adapting security practices as necessary.