Cloud Security Architect, Cloud and Infrastructure

Google

Kuwait City, Kuwait

Ref: SP068-1468

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Responsibilities

- Identify solution issue trends, collaborate internally to proactively mitigate future risks.
- Develop improved solution delivery methods and contribute to solution innovation initiatives.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define solutions and address escalations effectively.
- Advise on tech best practices, optimize stakeholder processes, and build strategic relationships.

Requirements:

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience delivering cyber outcomes, identifying mission risks, and devising solutions to combat public sector focused threats.
- 4 years of experience assessing and developing cybersecurity solutions across multiple security domains.
- Ability to communicate in Arabic and English fluently as this is a customer-facing role that requires interactions in Arabic and English with local stakeholders.
- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience with enterprise networking and network segmentation strategies, Agile program and project management, SCRUM methodology, DevSecOps, GRC practices, NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
- Experience with enterprise security controls in on-premises and cloud infrastructures, Zero Trust Architecture, Secure Enterprise Platforms Architecture, Identity providers such as Google Cloud Platform, Active Directory, Salesforce, Business-to-Business/Business-to-Consumer identities and collaboration platforms.
- Experience with Privileged Access Management best practices.
- Experience with Unix endpoint hardening and security control enforcement.

About the job
As a Security Consultant, you will be responsible for helping clients effectively prepare for, proactively mitigate, and detect and respond to cyber security threats. Security Consultants have an understanding of computer science, operating system functionality and networking, cloud services, corporate network environments and how to apply this knowledge to cyber security threats.

As a Security Consultant, you could work on engagements including assisting clients in navigating technically complex and high-profile incidents, performing forensic analysis, threat hunting, and malware triage. You may also test client networks, applications and devices by emulating the latest techniques to help them defend against threats, and will be the technical advocate for information security requirements and provide an in-depth understanding of the information security domain. You will also articulate and present complex concepts to business stakeholders, executive leadership, and technical contributors and successfully lead complex engagements alongside cross functional teams.

Mandiant Security Transformation Services helps organizations build an effective security operations program that minimizes organizational risk and reduces the impact of security breaches. With targeted focus in on-prem and cloud architecture, our consultants work from initial assessment, on-site workshops to explore clients on-prem and cloud environment, configuration review of security controls, to detailed practical technical recommendations to harden the on-prem and cloud environment, enhance visibility and detection, and improve processes to reduce the risk of compromise.

Part of Google Cloud, Mandiant is a recognized leader in dynamic cyber defense, threat intelligence and incident response services. By scaling decades of frontline experience, Mandiant helps organizations to be confident in their readiness to defend against and respond to cyber threats.

About the Company

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

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