Google Cyber Security Architect / Google Cloud Engineer

Join a flagship government program delivering Australia’s next-generation secure cloud collaboration environment.

Location: Canberra or Melbourne
Security Clearance: NV1 required; NV2 preferred
Contract role: ASAP start

1. Google Cyber Security Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Define and influence cyber security architectures tailored for GCP.
• Design, guide and assure landing zones, security controls, patterns and guardrails.
• Lead cyber security risk assessments across the GCP environment.
• Oversee the implementation of Zero Trust Architecture.
• Review, validate and provide assurance of GCP solution designs.

Essential Experience

• Proven background as a Security Architect or Senior Security Engineer working extensively with GCP.
• Strong technical proficiency across:
  • Google Cloud IAM
  • Security Command Center
  • Cloud Monitoring & Logging
  • VPC networking (subnets, Cloud NAT, routing)
  • Secret Manager
  • Endpoint, container and workload security
  • Zero Trust design principles
• Solid understanding of security frameworks such as ISM, Essential Eight, and NIST CSF.
• Ability to provide clear, risk-based security guidance to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications (Required/Desirable)

• Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer (highly regarded)
• SABSA, TOGAF or CISSP certifications (desirable)

2. Google Cloud Engineer

About the role:

We are looking for Google Cloud Engineer to contribute to the design, build and operation of a new Google Cloud Platform hosting environment .

Key Skills & Experience

• Minimum 5 years’ experience working as a GCP Engineer or Architect, including:
• Design & Planning (GCP Well-Architected Framework)
• Designing scalable, resilient, highly available cloud architectures on GCP.
• Applying best practices for security, compliance and cost optimisation.
• Experience with security frameworks desirable (or ISM, PSPF, Essential 8).
• GCP Implementation
• Deploying solutions using IaC and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with:
  • Terraform, Config Connector, ACM, FabricFast
  • GKE and container platforms
  • Cloud Run, AppEngine and other serverless services
  • Cloud Storage, Filestore, NetApp Volumes
  • Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Firestore, Spanner, Bigtable, Managed Kafka
  • Pub/Sub and event-driven architectures
  • GCP networking (VPCs, Cloud NAT, load balancing, interconnects, egress/ingress policies)
  • NGFW experience (Palo Alto) desirable
  • Cloud APIs and tagging frameworks
• GCP Operations & Management
• Cost governance: budgets, billing reports, recommender insights.
• Security posture management via IAM, Org Policy Service and SCC.
• Backup/recovery using Backup & DR services and lifecycle policies.
• Monitoring and alerting with Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Error Reporting, Dynatrace or Splunk.

Essential Experience

• Experience working with public cloud platforms or significant on-premises enterprise solutions.

Qualifications (Required/Desirable)

• Associate Cloud Engineer – required
• Professional Cloud Architect – desirable

To be considered for the role click the 'apply' button or for more information about this and other opportunities please contact Rashmi Kapse on + 612 6151 9206 or email rkapse@paxus.com.au and quote the 272179 job reference number.

Paxus values diversity and welcomes applications from Indigenous Australians, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people living with a disability. If you require an adjustment to the recruitment process, including the application form in an alternate format, please contact me on the above contact details.