Job Title: GCP Architect

Location: Sheffield, UK (Hybrid- 3 days a week )
Employment Type: Contract

Job Description:

Principal Responsibilities

The principal accountabilities of the Lead Platform Cloud Security Architect GCP are to:

• Identify, deliver, and document the required artifacts to enable movement of applications and data to the cloud securely. This includes understanding security requirements, cloud services and products awareness, solution architecture design and review and working with the cybersecurity organization to streamline governance.
• Hands-on, direct interaction with the engineering and application development teams and providing leadership to drive alignment on security requirements, influence decision makers, build relationships, and communicate strategy and architecture to the broader internal community. Be able to influence and work collaboratively to guide the developers, engineers and architects to deliver applications into the cloud securely and using reusable patterns.
• Provide a detailed understanding of cloud security and cloud infrastructure services, threat landscape and attack scenarios and risks.
• Possess significant breadth across other disciplines (e.g., enterprise security architecture, compute services, storage, large-scale networking, virtualization, data centre, integration architecture (API), orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, open stack), systems resiliency, service support, Secure application development lifecycle management (DevSecOps), and service delivery.
• Assist in preparation of high-level as well as detailed solution design documents.
• Assess the security posture of proposed solutions.
• Undertake cloud service (e.g. BigQuery) security risk assessments, identifying potential vulnerabilities and threat scenarios and defining and documenting relevant technical controls to mitigate those threats (in HSBC the “Cloud Security Baselines”).
• Work on aligning strategic tooling with the necessary security controls.