Google Cloud Security Architect

Slalom is a modern technology consulting company focused on delivering innovative solutions for complex business challenges. The Google Cloud Security Architect will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement security strategies and solutions for Google Cloud environments, ensuring compliance and alignment with industry standards.

Responsibilities

• Stay current with security trends, technologies, and best practices around Google Cloud solutions, leveraging tools like Cloud IAM, Cloud Security Command Center, BeyondCorp, and Cloud Armor
• Define and guide transformational security strategies for Google Cloud environments, ensuring alignment with Google’s Zero Trust and BeyondCorp principles
• Translate complex regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA) and technology standards into actionable functional and technical requirements for cloud and hybrid environments, ensuring security and compliance
• Lead teams through various phases of gap analyses, including security assessments, remediation planning, roadmap development, and implementation of remediation actions using Google Cloud-native tools
• Deliver on the vision, architecture, execution, and quality assurance of security projects on Google Cloud, driving initiatives that secure enterprise workloads and data
• Guide stakeholders and senior leaders on aligning security solutions with broader business goals, ensuring the architecture follows Google Cloud’s security best practices and roadmap
• Establish security architecture patterns based on Google Cloud security frameworks and industry standards to meet the unique needs of enterprise clients
• Collaborate with other Google Cloud architects and security teams to continuously improve security knowledge assets and best practices, ensuring the most effective security solutions for clients
• Design and architect solutions to secure Generative AI models and applications against adversarial attacks, prompt injection, and their potential misuse for malicious cyber activities

Skills

• Proven experience with Google Cloud security architecture, with hands-on experience in tools like Cloud IAM, VPC Service Controls, Cloud DLP, and Cloud Armor
• Strong background in defining and implementing Zero Trust and BeyondCorp security models within Google Cloud environments
• Familiarity or direct experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM), Data Protection, Vulnerability Management, and Cloud Security solutions in Google Cloud
• Extensive experience with security design patterns specific to Google Cloud, as well as hybrid and multi-cloud security architecture
• Experience in security and risk advisory consulting, particularly related to cloud security transformations
• Ability to lead the development and implementation of cloud security roadmaps aligned with business goals and compliance needs
• Familiarity with Google Cloud's Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities (e.g., Vertex AI, Generative AI services, Model Armor) including their applications, associated security risks (e.g., prompt injection, data poisoning, privacy concerns), and proven strategies for implementing security controls, governance, and responsible AI practices
• Relevant certifications are strongly desired, including (but not limited to): GCP Professional Security Engineer, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, CISSP, Security+

Benefits

• Meaningful time off and paid holidays
• Parental leave
• 401(k) with a match
• A range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage
• Adoption and fertility assistance
• Short/long-term disability
• Yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses
• Discounted home, auto, and pet insurance

Company Overview

• Slalom Consulting is a business and technology consulting firm that designs and builds strategies and systems to help its clients It was founded in 2001, and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.slalom.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• Slalom has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 215 in 2025, 258 in 2024, 250 in 2023, 614 in 2022, 254 in 2021, 220 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.