Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Google is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Principal Strategic Application Security Consultant for their Mandiant team within Google Cloud. The role involves driving application security engagements, influencing stakeholders, and leading complex customer-facing projects to enhance cybersecurity programs for enterprise clients.

Responsibilities

• Utilize broad application security expertise to separately own, scope, and lead complex customer-facing engagements as a Principal Application Security Consultant, trusted project owner, and industry specialist
• Direct cross-functional teams to architect and drive scalable, measurable security risk reduction across application and cloud environments, leveraging investigative systems thinking and advanced security telemetry data for enterprise-level decision-making
• Influence and secure alignment with director and C-suite level stakeholders regarding macro risk priorities, security infrastructure transformations, and systemic technical debt reduction, driving change management initiatives and secure-by-design orchestration
• Oversee secure code reviews, mentor junior team members on mitigating complex or ambiguous vulnerabilities, and review project deliverables, leveraging advanced knowledge of modern development languages (e.g., Python, Java) while designing long-term product strategy to optimize organizational AppSec and DevSecOps maturity

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8 years of experience with application information security, infrastructure, software, or platforms within cloud services
• 8 years of experience with cybersecurity risk management, threat identification, or security solution development
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time
• Certifications related to specific cloud platforms
• 4 years of experience Application development, leading application/software projects and customer relationships while working cross-functionally in a large organization
• Experience implementing industry-leading practices around cyber risks and cloud security for clients' cloud security frameworks using industry standards
• Experience with cloud governance, with the ability to convey governance principles to cloud computing in terms of policies
• Excellent time and project management skills

Benefits

• 20% bonus target
• Equity
• Benefits

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