Lead Cybersecurity Engineer – Google SecOps

About the role

PwC's Cyber Security practice, within Risk Assurance, Compliance and Analytics services, is looking for a Lead Cybersecurity Engineer for its Google SecOps offering. You will own the technical vision, engineering standards and delivery methodology for Google SecOps services and act as technical lead for complex SIEM, EDR and Threat Detection and Response transformation programs.

Key responsibilities

• Define reference architectures, onboarding frameworks, engineering accelerators and reusable deployment patterns.
• Lead complex Google SecOps implementation, migration and managed services onboarding projects.
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD and automation across security engineering teams.
• Review and approve technical designs, implementation approaches and engineering deliverables.
• Mentor, coach and develop security engineers, and serve as the primary technical escalation point for Google SecOps challenges and strategic client engagements.
• Support recruitment, capability development and growth of the Google SecOps engineering team.
• Collaborate with technology vendors, internal stakeholders and clients to shape future service offerings.

Required profile

• 6+ years of experience delivering cybersecurity engineering, implementation or consulting projects.
• Educational background in Information Technology, Cybersecurity or a related technical field.
• Proven experience leading complex SIEM or similar implementation, migration or transformation programs.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale security monitoring architectures and operating models.
• Experience leading engineering teams, technical workstreams or communities of practice.
• C1-level English and strong communication, stakeholder management and presentation skills.

Required skills

• Hands-on Google SecOps and practical knowledge of Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar or Elastic.
• Infrastructure-as-Code and DevOps tooling such as Terraform, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or similar.
• Building reusable engineering frameworks, CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.

Nice to have

• Experience building or scaling a Google SecOps practice or security engineering capability.
• Certifications such as Google Cloud, Google SecOps or other recognized cybersecurity certifications.
• Experience with presales, solution shaping, large-scale proposals, engineering governance and mentoring engineers across concurrent engagements.

What we offer

• Hybrid working model, workation and sabbatical leave.
• Onboarding support, mentoring, training, workshops and certification co-financing by PwC.
• Medical care package, mindfulness, psychological support and financial and legal counselling.
• Individual benefits package, cafeteria vouchers and discounts, 3 paid volunteering hours per month and an extra paid day off on your birthday.

The recruitment process includes CV verification, a screening phone call, two interviews and a final interview. The position is listed as hybrid (#LI-Hybrid).