Security Engineer

The Lead Security Engineer is the primary technical lead responsible for the end-to-end engineering and automation of the FedRAMP Key Security Indicator (KSI) initiative. This role bridges the gap between regulatory compliance and hands-on cloud engineering. The Lead Engineer will design automated cloud controls, manage GCP security vulnerability pipelines, and guide a technical team in deploying solutions that ensure continuous monitoring and secure architectures across Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Technical Leadership & Translation:
  Lead discovery workshops to deconstruct FedRAMP KSIs and NIST SP 800-53 controls, translating high-level compliance mandates into binary, automatable technical specifications.
• Vulnerability Management & Pipelines:
  Oversee and implement VM vulnerability scanning (AutoVM, Tenable, Qualys, Nessus), container image scanning (Artifact Registry / Drydock), and static/dynamic analysis tools.
• Automation & Scripting:
  Analyze Google Cloud Asset Inventory (CAI) schemas and oversee the authoring and testing of Common Expression Language (CEL) evaluation rules to define precise Pass/Fail criteria for cloud controls.
• Pipeline & Telemetry Architecture:
  Design, deploy, and troubleshoot log agents (Fluentbit/Vector) and Cloud Logging sinks to ensure 100% telemetry coverage across container nodes, VMs, and control-plane APIs.
• Identity & Access Management (IAM):
  Architect and enforce least-privilege IAM bindings, service accounts, and VPC Service Controls across the GCP environment.
• Validation & Deployment:
  Test logic against synthetic resources in sandbox environments to minimize false positives, manage codebase version control (Git/Piper), and support progressive deployment rollouts.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  
  Act as the technical bridge for the project, supporting gap analyses and providing engineering evidence to Governance teams and 3
  
  PAO assessors.

• Experience:
  
  7+ years in Cloud Security Engineering, Dev Sec Ops , or Infrastructure Security, with proven experience as a Lead/Senior Engineer managing FedRAMP (Moderate/High) security vulnerability implementations.
• Cloud Platform Expertise:
  Strong, hands-on background in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), specifically with Cloud Asset Inventory (CAI), Security Command Center (SCC), IAM, Cloud Audit Logs, and Cloud Storage.
• Scripting &
  
  Languages:
  
  Advanced proficiency in Common Expression Language (CEL). Working knowledge of Python, Go, or Rego/OPA.
• Vulnerability Tooling:
  Practical experience configuring and automating vulnerability and container scanning tools in a large-scale cloud environment.
• Systems & Infrastructure:
  Experience with Google Cloud infrastructure and container orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE/Borg).
• Compliance Knowledge:
  Strong familiarity with automated control evaluation for NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, CIS Benchmarks, and FedRAMP Continuous Monitoring (Con Mon).
• Education:
  
  Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.