Sr Cloud Security Architect - GCP (W2 Contract only)

Role: Sr Cloud Security Architect Location: Sterling VADuration: 6 MonthsPay Rate: $106/hr on W2Job Responsibilities Act as a Cloud Security Subject Matter Expert (SME) for client’s Infosec department.Identify opportunities to reduce cloud security risk for the client, solution, and lead implementations.Create design artifacts to enable members of the Cloud Security team to implement solutions (built in-house or purchased from vendor).Partner with product teams to design secure network and serverless architectures.Provide strong IAM Policy guidance to enable product teams to implement least privilege access.Review cloud architecture and advise development teams on strong security design principles and identification of issues prior to deployment of systems or features.Interface with Public Cloud providers to improve the security feature set of their products.Interface with cloud security vendors to evaluate features and determine proof-of-value.Maintain an awareness of cloud-costs and the cost implications of the security controls implemented.Mentor junior members of the team.Create and maintain documentation as it relates to cloud security designs/configurations, processes, standards, and recommendations.Collaborate with senior management and department leaders to assess near- and long-term cloud security needs.Staying current with the latest cloud threat mitigation tools and techniquesMust Have Skills / RequirementsExperience Designing and Implementing systems that support multiple users.5+ years of experience; Design, Implementation, and Maintenance of systems used by users.The ability to evaluate technical documentation and diagrams for cloud environments and identify security issues in those designs.5+ years of experience; Security Architectural Reviews and ability to create design artifacts – including infrastructure diagrams.Ability to review technical configuration and identify mitigating controls for security related misconfigurations5+ years; Experience Managing Exception RequestsCandidates must have GCP Security experience.Nice to Have Skills / Preferred RequirementsAWS Certifications – AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Security SpecialtyGCP Certifications – Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Security EngineerSecurity Engineer Certifications – CISSP, CompTIA Security+Previous Experience with Wiz, Splunk, Brinqa, integrations with Slack and JiraSoft Skills:Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a strong attention to detail.Remains productive while rapidly switching context.Thirst for knowledge and constantly driven to stay current with evolving threat landscapes.Technology Requirements:Strong understanding of cloud-based infrastructure components with specific understanding of the security risks presented in a decentralized and hybrid environment.Broad understanding of information security and compliance risk, and how those apply to Public Cloud.Comfortable automating processes start to finish and can work closely with cloud solutions engineering and product teams to help integrate security into their existing processes.Proficient in at least one scripting language (python, Nodejs, Golang).Core understanding of IP Networking, routing, VPNs.Hands-on experience with some the following:Docker and KubernetesDeveloping & Securing Serverless applicationsSecurity administration in AWS/GCP/AzureGitHub SecurityInfrastructure as code tools (Pulumi, Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform)Command Line experience (Bash, Powershell, AWS-CLI)Cloud Network (VPC) engineeringCloud native security related tools (AWS Guard Duty, AWS WAF, GCP Security Center)Elastic StackEducation / CertificationsBachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or related field.