GCP Principal Security Architect - Contractor

Join the visionary team at Tamnoon and help us build the future of cloud security!

Tamnoon, is a leader in Managed Cloud Remediation Services. We combine human expertise with technology to help teams quickly and safely remediate cloud risks, addressing a critical need in the industry.

Come join Tamnoon’s team of CloudPros and help us remediate our customers’ cloud security risks! We’re looking for a security-minded cloud engineer with experience building, securing, and operating cloud infrastructure and applications in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). 

This is a Principal-level role that will serve as our GCP expert to determine the best course of action to remediate GCP security misconfigurations, ,identify playbooks and runbooks to accelerate investigation and remediation in GCP, and mentor others on GCP best practices

In this role, you’ll join a team of experienced cloud security architects to directly engage Tamnoon’s customers. You’ll help triage, prioritize, and remediate their cloud vulnerabilities. A typical day could involve: 1) Gathering data and context around security alerts through a combination of automation and manual investigation to help drive prioritization decisions and remediation strategies; 2) Working directly with customer teams to remediate cloud security risks; 3) Improving internal knowledge by creating or updating playbooks and runbooks; 4) Sharing technical knowledge with the community in the form of blog posts, whitepapers, or other types of thought leadership; or 5) Collaborating with Tamnoon’s engineering team to make our overall service better, faster, easier, and cheaper.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
• Practical experience deploying, configuring, and securing resources in GCP.
• Practical experience applying security in GCP.
• The ability to communicate complex technical concepts verbally and in writing using English. 

Preferred Qualifications (if you have at least one of these, we’d love to hear from you!):

• Working knowledge of GCP, including common misconfigurations, customer challenges, and techniques for mitigating security risks.
• Broad knowledge across two or more major cloud providers.
• Working knowledge of container-based applications and infrastructure (e.g. Kubernetes), preferably in GCP.
• Experience deploying and troubleshooting cloud deployments using one or more common methods, like console, infrastructure as code, CLI, or SDK.
• Experience building governance and security over an estate of cloud subscriptions.
• Experience using Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) or Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) tools, like Wiz, Prisma, CloudGuard, Orca, CrowdStrike, Lacework, etc..
• Demonstrable skill at creating, editing, and executing scripts and command line tools using a modern high-level language (e.g Python).
• Soft skills to run meetings with customers, influence customer decisions, and advocate on behalf of security.

Benefits

At Tamnoon, we acknowledge that career paths are not linear and value the unique experiences that you bring. Tamnoon is committed to supporting these alternative career paths. If you are a transitioning veteran or spouse, a parent returning to work, or working on a career transition, we want to hear from you!

WFH position offering competitive compensation and equity, along with a comprehensive benefits package that includes flexible PTO and opportunities for growth within our forward-thinking company.

Tamnoon is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and affirmative-action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.