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Senior Security Engineer, AutoVM, Cloud Usage Taskforce

The role involves identifying security issues and designing controls to manage vulnerability across Google's cloud infrastructure. You will partner with engineering teams to execute security debt reduction and ensure a secure cloud posture.

San Jose, California, United StatesonsiteFULL_TIME

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About the role

What will you do at Google?

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

* 5 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or

threat modeling.

* 5 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network

security and security protocols.

* 5 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.

* 1 year of experience leading teams in a technical capacity or leading

technical risk analysis in an enterprise environment.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Experience working with cloud tools like Terraform.

* Experience with GCP.

ABOUT THE JOB:

Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment

for Google's users and developers. Security Engineers work with network

equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. In this

role, you will also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix

security flaws and vulnerabilities.

The AutoVM Cloud Usage taskforce is responsible for the vulnerability management

of Alphabet's GCP usage. We work on the problem by keeping Google safe from

external attackers, ensuring that exploitable vulnerabilities are detected and

closed quickly.

We operate across the organization, working with partner teams to ensure their

cloud posture is secure while identifying vulnerabilities in all parts of the

cloud stack: from virtual machine kernel bugs all the way to toxic combination

of misconfigurations.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills,

experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Identify security issues and implement and design security controls, tools,

and services to improve security systems and processes.

* Define the infrastructure to analyze, deploy, and manage vulnerability

management across Google.

* Build a data driven approach to identify existing vulnerabilities to improve

the security posture of Alphabet's use of GCP.

* Partner with other security engineers and teams to prioritize and execute on

security debt reduction efforts to deliver the team's objectives and key

results.

Which skills does this role require?

Security assessmentsThreat modelingSecurity engineeringNetwork securitySecurity protocolsCodingTechnical leadershipRisk analysisCloud securityInfrastructure managementData driven analysisSecurity debt reductionSecurity EngineerThreat ModelingNetwork SecuritySecurity ProtocolsInfrastructureSecurity DebtRisk Analysis

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