Oracle Cloud Security Engineer

The Opportunity: We are seeking a Cloud Security Engineer - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to design, implement, and maintain secure cloud environments across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platforms. This role will work closely with cloud engineering, security, operations, and product teams to establish secure-by-default cloud architectures, implement policy-as-code frameworks, and drive infrastructure automation initiatives.

The ideal candidate has strong expertise in OCI foundational services, cloud security controls, infrastructure-as-code, and policy governance, along with a passion for building scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions.

• Role: Oracle Cloud Security Engineer - OCI
• Experience: 6+ Years
• Work Location: Phoenix, AZ
• Project Duration: 12+ Months Contract

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain secure cloud infrastructure solutions within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Develop and manage Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and related automation tools
• Define, implement, and maintain Policy-as-Code (PaC) frameworks using Sentinel and cloud-native policy enforcement mechanisms
• Enhance cloud security guardrails and governance controls by collaborating with CNAPP and security teams to enforce secure-by-default cloud configurations
• Configure and support OCI foundational services including IAM, VPC, Compute, Storage, Cloud Logging, and Security Controls
• Troubleshoot, reproduce, and resolve customer-reported issues across Oracle Cloud services and underlying cloud architectures
• Support and secure Oracle PaaS services including Oracle Analytics Cloud, Oracle Integration Cloud, Storage, Streaming, and related offerings
• Design cloud architectures that ensure high availability, resilience, visibility, and security
• Implement and maintain cloud logging, monitoring, metrics collection, and security visibility solutions
• Develop tools and automation solutions to improve operational efficiency and accelerate issue diagnosis
• Collaborate with engineering, sales, customer success, and operations teams to resolve technical deployment challenges
• Act as a subject matter expert for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure security, governance, and cloud-native architecture
• Participate in Agile development processes and contribute to engineering standards, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience

• 5+ years of experience working with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) foundational services including:

• Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• Virtual Cloud Networks (VCN/VPC)

• Compute Services

• Storage Services

• Cloud Logging and Monitoring

• Security Controls and Governance

• Hands-on experience with:

• Terraform

• Sentinel

• Infrastructure Automation

• Policy-as-Code (PaC) frameworks

• Strong understanding of cloud-native security controls and governance models

• Experience implementing security controls across cloud-native infrastructure environments

• Knowledge of Oracle PaaS security including:

• Data Security

• Network Security

• Workload Isolation

• Policy Enforcement

• Experience with cloud logging and monitoring solutions, metrics analysis, and observability platforms

• Software development experience in one or more object-oriented programming languages:

• Java

• Python

• Go

• Understanding of cloud architecture principles including high availability, resiliency, scalability, and security

• Experience troubleshooting complex cloud infrastructure and platform issues

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
• FinOps or Cloud Cost Optimization knowledge
• Experience with cloud security posture management and compliance frameworks
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and automation
• Experience working with enterprise-scale cloud deployments
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks
• Exposure to container technologies and orchestration platforms
• Experience supporting customer-facing cloud environments

What We're Looking For

• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities
• Passion for cloud security, automation, and scalable infrastructure design
• Ability to quickly learn and adopt emerging technologies
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to translate technical and business requirements into practical cloud solutions
• Strong collaboration skills with engineering, operations, sales, and customer teams
• Commitment to security best practices and continuous improvement
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, Agile development environment

Technologent is an Equal Opportunity Employer -- EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled -- for reasonable accommodations, please contact us at hr@technologent.com

Technologent is a Global Provider of Edge-to-Edge Information Technology Solutions and Services for Fortune 1000 and SMB companies. We offer a unique blend of business practices that are aligned to solve for top CIO concerns. Our core competencies focus on data center infrastructure, business continuity, data protection, service automation and orchestration, continuous intelligence, monitoring, connectivity, collaboration and cybersecurity. These practices are supported by our professional services, digital transformation services and financial services offerings. By providing custom solutions and services designed to fit your business needs, we enable your organization to be more agile, responsive and competitive. Technologent empowers your company to ascend to the next level in IT.

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