Oracle Cloud Security
Role Summary
We are seeking an Oracle Cloud Security Consultant / OCI Security Architect to help organizations design, secure, and govern Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environments while protecting critical business applications, data, and cloud-native services. The role focuses on OCI security architecture, identity and access management, data protection, cloud governance, posture management, and secure cloud transformation initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
· Design and review secure OCI architectures, landing zones, and infrastructure security controls.
· Implement and govern OCI Identity and Access Management (IAM), policies, compartments, and least-privilege access models.
· Assess and improve OCI security posture using cloud security best practices.
· Design and implement data protection controls, including encryption, key management, vault services, and secrets management.
· Support Zero Trust initiatives, network segmentation, and secure connectivity using OCI networking services.
· Conduct OCI security assessments, threat modeling, architecture reviews, and compliance evaluations.
· Enable secure DevSecOps practices and protect CI/CD pipelines deployed within OCI environments.
· Secure Oracle PaaS and SaaS integrations, including database, analytics, and application workloads.
· Support cloud migration and modernization programs by embedding security controls into OCI landing zones and migrated workloads.
· Develop cloud security dashboards, security monitoring use cases, and compliance reporting capabilities.
· Collaborate with infrastructure, application, database, and business teams to operationalize security controls and remediate identified risks.
· Support incident response, security investigations, and cloud threat detection activities within OCI environments.
Required Skills
· Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services and security capabilities.
· Strong understanding of OCI security architecture, governance, and operational best practices.
· Experience implementing OCI IAM, compartments, dynamic groups, federation, and privileged access controls.
· Knowledge of OCI Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Vault, and Key Management Services (KMS).
· Experience securing OCI networking components, including VCNs, NSGs, security lists, load balancers, and hybrid connectivity.
· Understanding of encryption, key lifecycle management, and secrets management.
· Familiarity with CSPM, cloud governance, and cloud compliance frameworks.
· Knowledge of DevSecOps practices, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and secure CI/CD pipelines.
· Experience with cloud monitoring, logging.
Preferred Qualifications
· Basic understanding of AI and securing AI-enabled cloud workloads.
· OCI certifications such as:
o Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional
o Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Security Professional
· Industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CCSK, or CISM.
· Experience supporting large-scale cloud migration, modernization, or Oracle workload transformation programs.
· Knowledge of compliance frameworks such as NIST, CIS Benchmarks, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and SOC 2.