GCP Cloud Security Engineer

Function Health

9h

About The Position

Function Health is building a modern cloud security program to protect our members and platform as we scale. As a Cloud Security Engineer, you’ll focus on securing our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments, designing and enforcing guardrails that make our infrastructure secure by default. This role is hands-on and impact-driven: you’ll own detection, hardening, and automation that directly reduce risk across production systems.

We’re looking for someone who thrives on solving hard technical problems in cloud environments, knows how to balance speed and control, and can turn complex GCP security challenges into practical, automated solutions.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in cloud engineering or security, with at least 3 years focused on GCP.
• Deep knowledge of GCP services (IAM, VPC, GKE, Cloud Run, GCS, KMS, SCC) and their security implications.
• Experience implementing guardrails with Terraform.
• Strong grasp of IAM design, service account lifecycle, and secrets management in GCP.
• Familiarity with cloud logging/monitoring (Cloud Logging, VPC Flow Logs, SCC findings) and integration into SIEM/SOAR.
• Strong scripting or development skills (Python preferred) for automation.
• Ability to influence engineering teams toward secure patterns without slowing them down.
• Bias Toward Action: Demonstrated ability to take initiative, make decisions under uncertainty, and move projects forward even in the face of ambiguity. We value individuals who are self-starters and ready to act on opportunities and challenges alike.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: Strong adaptability to changing business needs with a knack for building and optimizing processes. Your entrepreneurial mindset will be crucial in navigating the dynamic landscape of our industry, ensuring our platform remains competitive and responsive to user needs.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Effective communication is vital for cross-functional collaboration and ensuring alignment across our organization.
• Remote Work Adaptability: Comfort with remote work environments, demonstrating the ability to stay productive and connected with the team irrespective of physical location.
• Continuous Improvement: A willingness to question assumptions and a commitment to continuous improvement. Your openness to feedback and dedication to personal and professional growth will contribute significantly to our collective success.

Nice To Haves

• experience with HIPAA/HITRUST environments, SOC 2 Type II audits, or healthcare data protection

Responsibilities

• Serve as the embedded security partner for engineering teams building in GCP, with a focus on pragmatic, high-impact risk reduction.
• Orchestrate and implement organization constraints to enforce guardrails and prevent misconfigurations.
• Harden GCP environments against misconfiguration and exposure: enforce secure defaults, network segmentation, logging, and monitoring.
• Drive adoption of identity- and service-account best practices, including least privilege, key rotation, and elimination of long-lived credentials.
• Automate enforcement of cloud security controls using IaC, policy-as-code, and CI/CD guardrails.
• Lead cloud vulnerability management, including scanning for misconfigurations, secrets, and exposed services, and partner with teams on remediation.
• Integrate CSPM tooling (e.g. Wiz, Upwind, GCP Security Command Center) and cloud-native telemetry into centralized detection and response workflows.
• Support incident response by providing expertise on GCP logging, forensics, and containment.
• Define and track cloud security KPIs (e.g., % of resources covered by VPC Flow Logs, service accounts without keys, restricted buckets with audit logging).
• Partner with product security and infrastructure engineering to shape long-term cloud security strategy.

Benefits

• We value our team at Function and offer a competitive salary and benefits package, flexible working hours, and a dynamic work environment where creativity and innovation are encouraged.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed