Google Cloud Security Engineer

Fidelity Investments • Durham, NC

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Fidelity is currently seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to join their Cloud Platform and Security Team. This role operates in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, interacting with many enterprise applications and incorporating cloud technology to ensure an optimal internal associate experience. The candidate will own and advance secure-by-default cloud controls across Google Cloud, partnering with platform, product, and security teams to reduce risk without slowing delivery. The role involves influencing the team with new security trends, presenting risks versus rewards to management, and developing a point of view on emerging trends to advance solutions that result in efficiencies and faster time to market. The candidate will be responsible for designing and delivering work for their team in the most efficient manner, delivering the most value to their technical and business partners of the Cloud platform, and actively sharing insights, knowledge, industry practices, and developments across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree with 4+ years of knowledge and experience working in software and cloud infrastructure engineering with various technology platforms.
• Proven experience in Google Cloud Platform and cloud native security tooling.
• Experience managing business priorities and understanding how to make tradeoffs when considering pace with perfection.
• Proven expertise leveraging Azure/GCP cloud services to architect and deliver production‑grade, cloud‑native systems, with hands‑on experience designing and building containerized applications.
• Experience in defining Cloud IAM, RBAC and principal of least privileges.
• Proven expertise in continuous integration and deployment pipelines using Terraform, CFT etc.
• Ability to learn and stay curious for new feature validation.

Nice To Haves

• Preferred Experience leveraging AI‑assisted tools to improve engineering productivity, operational efficiency, or developer workflows.
• Preferred Experience in cloud security tools like InsightCloudSec, Wiz, and Zscaler, Defender for Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Own and advance secure-by-default cloud controls across Google Cloud.
• Partner with platform, product, and security teams to reduce risk without slowing delivery.
• Influence the team with new security trends and ability to present risks vs rewards to management.
• Develop a point of view on new and emerging trends to advance solutions that result in efficiencies and faster time to market.
• Design and deliver work for your team in the most efficient manner, delivering the most value to your technical and business partners of Cloud platform.
• Actively share insights, knowledge, industry practices and developments across the organization.
• Lead or support cloud security incident response, root cause analysis, and corrective action plans with measurable closure.
• Drive new policies and standards for Google Cloud based on industry cybersecurity standards.
• Track security posture KPIs and deliver regular updates on control coverage, remediation velocity, and residual risk to leadership.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree