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Professional Cloud Security Engineer

Google Cloud

Certification

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A Cloud Security Engineer allows organizations to design and implement secure workloads and infrastructure on Google Cloud. Through an understanding of security best practices and industry requirements, this individual designs, develops, and manages a secure solution by using Google security technologies.

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Format

Hybrid

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A Cloud Security Engineer allows organizations to design and implement secure workloads and infrastructure on Google Cloud. Through an understanding of security best practices and industry requirements, this individual designs, develops, and manages a secure solution by using Google security technologies. A Cloud Security Engineer is proficient in identity and access management, defining the resource hierarchy and policies, using Google Cloud technologies to provide data protection, configuring network security defenses, monitoring environments for threats, configuring security automation, securing AI workloads, securing the software supply chain, and enforcing regulatory controls. About this certification exam Length: 2 hours Registration fee: $200 (plus tax where applicable) Languages: English, Japanese Exam format: 50-60 multiple choice and multiple select questions Exam delivery method: a) Take the online-proctored exam from a remote location, review the online testing requirements b) Take the onsite-proctored exam at a testing center, locate a test center near you - search for Google Cloud. Prerequisites: None Recommended experience: 3+ years of industry experience including more than 1 year designing and managing solutions using Google Cloud Certification renewal: Candidates may renew their certification within the renewal eligibility period. For more information about the renewal process, eligibility period, and certification validity timeline, please refer to the Renewal FAQs below.

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Skills & Competencies

Skills developed through this program

  • Design and implement secure workloads and infrastructure on Google Cloud
  • Design, develop, and manage secure solutions using Google security technologies
  • Manage identity and access management, resource hierarchy, and policies in Google Cloud
  • Provide data protection using Google Cloud technologies
  • Configure network security defenses in Google Cloud environments
  • Monitor cloud environments for threats and security risks
Career Pathways

Occupations this program prepares you for

  • Information Security Analysts15-1212.00
What You'll Learn

Key competencies developed through this program

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Mastery: developing (Level 2)(based on Certification)

  • Multi-source alert investigations — correlate across SIEM, EDR, identity, and network with reduced oversight.
  • Routine incident response — execute tier-2 containment and eradication on familiar threat types.
  • Vulnerability prioritization — assess CVSS, exploitability, and asset context to drive patching decisions.
  • Threat-intel ingestion and operationalization — turn IOCs and TTPs into detection rules.
  • Cloud-security configuration (AWS, Azure, GCP IAM and network controls) — review and remediate in routine cases.
  • Detection engineering (basic SIEM queries, custom rules) — write and tune for the SOC's standard threats.
  • Junior analysts on alert triage — coach during their first 90 days.
  • On-call shifts in the SOC rotation — handle independently with senior backstop.
  • Compliance audit evidence collection — produce for SOC 2 / ISO 27001 cycles without manager involvement.
  • Tabletop exercises — participate substantively in SOC and broader-IR drills.

Some details on this page are auto-populated from public workforce data sources: O*NET (opens in new tab), BLS (opens in new tab), College Scorecard (opens in new tab), DOL Training Provider Results (opens in new tab), NSX (opens in new tab). Provided in partnership with LER.me Career Intelligence.

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