Senior Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer - GCP Specialist

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us challenge the status quo and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

As a Senior Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer specializing in GCP, you’ll innovate, design, and implement groundbreaking cybersecurity capabilities to safeguard our cloud workloads. You’ll be part of a culture that values integrity, teamwork, and personal growth—where your expertise drives real change and your career journey is supported every step of the way.

What You’ll Do

• Engineer, implement, and monitor security measures for GCP cloud infrastructure and integrations.
• Build and maintain the security footprint to drive continuous advancement and maturity.
• Assist IT operations and security owners in implementing scalable security capabilities and processes.
• Recommend, implement, and deliver new security technology capabilities across the organization.
• Champion and contribute to security policies and standards for GCP and other cloud platforms.
• Interpret security and technical requirements into business requirements; communicate risks to stakeholders.
• Advise and influence multi-disciplinary teams in implementing and operating cyber security controls.
• Implement policy-as-code and security-as-automation, adopting IAC and CI/CD/SDLC lifecycle for all cloud activities.
• Collaborate with application developers and database administrators to deliver creative solutions.
• Provide domain expertise on information security architecture and systems engineering.
• Automate security controls, data, and processes to improve metrics and operational support.
• Employ cloud-based APIs to write network/system-level tools for safeguarding GCP environments.
• Ensure accurate metrics of security performance and maturity over time.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 3-5 years’ experience managing security controls with GCP.
• 3-5 years’ experience managing security controls in other cloud environments (a plus).
• 1–3 years’ database administration experience (a plus).
• Experience in highly regulated industries, ideally financial services.
• Knowledge of cloud native security tools (Wiz, Prisma, Orca Security, Zscaler).
• Experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code tools (Bicep, Crossplane, Ansible, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• Experience in DevSecOps environments with CI/CD solutions and developer tools (Gitlab, Github, Bamboo, Bitbucket).
• Ability to spot and implement new security technologies and best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant cybersecurity certifications (CISSP, CCSP, CCSK, GCP cybersecurity certifications).
• Interest in emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and controls.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to articulate complex concepts to technical and business leaders.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.