OCI Cloud Security Engineer

Latitude IT Solutions is hiring an OCI Cloud Security Engineer to implement and validate security for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environments supporting a federal health customer. The role builds, operates, and hardens cloud workloads and manages OCI-native security controls as part of a cloud operations and migration team.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and validate OCI security posture across IAM policies, network security groups, data encryption, and monitoring
• Design, build, test, and take live OCI-native security controls, including Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Security Advisor, and Threat Intelligence
• Build key management for encryption at rest across OCI storage, databases, and SaaS data, including key rotation, versioning, and lifecycle policies
• Integrate OCI logs and events into the enterprise SIEM and tune them for useful detection
• Automate security controls with Infrastructure as Code and help set technical standards for cloud and on-premises environments

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience, and 6+ years of experience in cloud security engineering, solution engineering, enterprise architecture, or related technical roles
• Advanced, hands-on proficiency with OCI security tools and OCI IAM
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, or Ansible
• Experience integrating OCI logs and events into a SIEM such as Splunk, Elastic, or Microsoft Sentinel
• Solid understanding of how security applies to compute, load balancing, WAF, API Gateway, and Functions
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to obtain and maintain a federal background investigation (Public Trust)
• Applicants need to be a US Citizen to be considered for the position
• Terraform (preferred)
• Current OCI certification, such as OCI Security Professional or OCI Architect Professional
• Active Public Trust
• Experience supporting federal government programs, especially federal health
• Knowledge of regulated environments: FedRAMP, HIPAA, NIST 800-53, CIS benchmarks
• Experience with Oracle Fusion Applications security
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP in addition to OCI
• Container security for Kubernetes and OKE, including image scanning, and OS-level remediation of vulnerability scan findings