Security Engineer - Google Cloud Platform

Acunor InfotechNJ🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 24, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This remote opportunity offers significant growth by allowing you to deepen your expertise in Google Cloud Platform security, a highly in-demand skill set. You'll thrive here if you possess strong hands-on experience with GCP security services and a proactive approach to safeguarding cloud environments. Apply now to shape the future of cloud security.

Quick Overview

Seniority

Mid Senior

Work mode

Remote

Location

NJ, United States

Posted

20 hours ago

EncryptionMFASAMLSOC 2SSOBashGoogle CloudKubernetesPowerShellPythonTerraformZero Trust

Job Description

Security Engineer Google Cloud Platform Cloud

Location: Remote East Coast, USA
Travel: Must be able to travel to Florham Park, NJ, as needed
Employment Type: Contract
Experience: 8+ Years

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Security Engineer with strong hands-on Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) security experience to secure, monitor, and support enterprise cloud environments.

This is a hands-on engineering position focused on implementing cloud security controls, managing identity and access, investigating security incidents, remediating vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, and strengthening the overall security posture of Google Cloud Platform environments.

The ideal candidate will have deep experience with Google Cloud Platform security services, IAM, cloud network security, Incident Response, security monitoring, and vulnerability remediation. Experience with Okta and CyberArk is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities

Implement, configure, and manage security controls across enterprise Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) environments.
Secure Google Cloud Platform services including IAM, service accounts, workload identity, networking, logging, monitoring, encryption, and security policies.
Implement and maintain least-privilege access, RBAC, service-account governance, workload identity, and privileged-access controls.
Monitor Google Cloud Platform environments for security threats, suspicious activities, vulnerabilities, and configuration issues.
Perform end-to-end Incident Response, including investigation, triage, containment, remediation, root-cause analysis, and post-incident activities.
Analyze cloud security logs, alerts, and telemetry to identify and investigate potential security incidents.
Identify and remediate cloud vulnerabilities, security misconfigurations, excessive permissions, and security-control gaps.
Work with Google Security Command Center, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and Organization Policies.
Implement security controls for VPCs, firewall policies, private connectivity, network segmentation, and workload protection.
Conduct cloud security assessments, configuration reviews, threat analysis, and remediation activities.
Collaborate with Cloud, DevOps, Infrastructure, Application, and Security Operations teams.
Support security automation and integration of cloud security controls into engineering and operational processes.
Participate in security investigations and provide technical recommendations to prevent recurrence.
Support enterprise identity and privileged-access integrations using technologies such as Okta and CyberArk.

Required Qualifications

8+ years of overall IT/Security experience, with strong recent experience in Cloud Security Engineering.
Strong hands-on experience securing Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) environments.
Deep understanding of Google Cloud Platform IAM, service accounts, workload identity, Organization Policies, Security Command Center, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Monitoring.
Hands-on cloud network security experience including VPCs, firewall rules/policies, private connectivity, and network segmentation.
Strong hands-on Incident Response experience within cloud or enterprise environments.
Experience investigating security alerts, analyzing logs, determining root causes, and implementing remediation.
Strong understanding of IAM, least privilege, RBAC, federation, privileged access, encryption, and secrets management.
Experience identifying and remediating cloud security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
Understanding of Zero Trust and cloud security architecture principles.
Ability to collaborate with technical teams during security incidents and drive issues through resolution.

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on Okta experience including SSO, MFA, federation, SAML/OIDC, identity integrations, and user lifecycle management.
Experience with CyberArk for Privileged Access Management (PAM), credential vaulting, privileged-account management, and access controls.
Experience with SIEM/SOAR platforms and security monitoring.
Experience with Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and cloud security automation.
Scripting experience using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar technologies.
Experience securing Kubernetes/GKE environments.
Knowledge of security standards and frameworks such as NIST, CIS Benchmarks, SOC 2, and ISO 27001.
Relevant certifications in Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Security, CISSP, CyberArk, or Okta.