Gcp Security Engineer

## About the Role We are hiring a hands-on GCP Security Engineer for a longterm contract engagement in Jersey City, NJ. This role is focused on building security and compliance guardrails into a Google Cloud Platform rollout so teams can onboard securely, consistently, and audit-ready. This is not a pure GRC role, not a general cloud admin role, and not an AWS-only security role. We are looking for someone with real hands-on GCP, Terraform, Python, and cloud security implementation experience. ## Responsibilities - Implement security and compliance guardrails across GCP environments - Translate control requirements into technical cloud security standards - Work with Terraform to automate secure cloud infrastructure patterns - Support IAM hardening, policy constraints, logging, monitoring, and audit readiness - Define encryption, decryption, key management, and secrets handling expectations - Work with data protection requirements including data sensitivity, data categorization, and data classification - Support remediation tracking, exception handling, and risk acceptance workflows - Partner with cloud/platform/security teams to reduce onboarding rework and control gaps ## Requirements - 5+ years of cloud/security engineering experience - Hands-on Google Cloud Platform experience - Terraform / Infrastructure as Code - Python scripting or automation - Cloud security implementation experience - IAM hardening and access control experience - Logging, monitoring, and audit evidence experience - Strong communication skills and ability to explain real project work ## Nice to Have - GCP Security Command Center - Cloud KMS / encryption / decryption - Secret Manager - GCP Org Policies / policy constraints - Data protection, data sensitivity, data categorization, or data classification - DevSecOps experience - Financial services experience - Security compliance frameworks such as NIST, SOC 2, PCI, or ISO 27001 ## About the Company Location: Jersey City, NJ Work Type: Contract, W2 Interview: In-person interview required in Jersey City Work Authorization: U.S. Citizen or Green Card only