OCI Admin Security Lead (14+ Years Experience)

Overview

Remote
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Able to Provide Sponsorship

Skills

OCI Admin
OCI Security
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
IAM
Vault
KMS
Cloud Guard
Security Lead
Terraform
Governance
Zero Trust
Cloud Security
SIEM Integration
Compliance
RBAC
Identity Federation
Network Security
WAF
DRG
Security Operations
Cloud SRE Security
Oracle Cloud Security Engineer

Job Details

OCI Admin Security Lead (14+ Years Experience)

Location: Remote
Contract
Experience Required: 14+ Years IT / 5+ Years OCI Security

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced OCI Admin Security Lead to drive security governance, access controls, compliance, and operational security posture across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environments. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on experience managing OCI identity, policies, federation, secret management, compliance frameworks, and security automation.

This role will lead OCI security administration, policy enforcement, SRE-grade operational controls, and work closely with architecture, platform, and compliance teams to ensure OCI environments meet enterprise and regulatory standards.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead OCI security administration and operational governance across multi-environment cloud estates.
  • Manage and maintain security components including:
    IAM Policies, Groups, Dynamic Groups, Federation, SSO
    Key Management Service (KMS), Vault, Certificates, Secrets, Encryption Policies
    WAF, Firewalls, Network Security Groups, Security Zones
  • Implement and maintain Zero-Trust access models across cloud workloads.
  • Automate provisioning and compliance using Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, scripting (Python/Bash), and CI/CD workflows.
  • Define tagging standards, policy guardrails, quotas, and tenancy structure for least privilege and governance alignment.
  • Support security controls for OKE, Compute, Storage, Load Balancers, and Network components (VCN, DRG, VPN, FastConnect).
  • Monitor and respond to alerts using OCI Logging, Monitoring, Audit Service, Cloud Guard, SIEM integrations.
  • Perform periodic audits, penetration testing alignment, compliance reporting, and remediation planning.
  • Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and operational documentation; lead training and awareness sessions.
  • Partner with Architecture, Risk, DevOps, Infrastructure and Operations teams on security posture improvements.

Required Skills & Experience

14+ years of IT experience with security and cloud operations background
5+ years hands-on experience administering OCI cloud security features
Hands-on expertise with:

  • Identity & Access Management (IAM)
  • Dynamic Groups, SCPs, Federation & Identity Domains
  • Encryption at rest & in transit, Secrets management, Vault/KMS
  • WAF, IPS, threat detection, SOC/SIEM integrations
    Experience with automation and IaC:
  • Terraform (Required), OCI Resource Manager, GitOps, Python/Shell scripting
    Familiarity with regulatory and compliance frameworks (PCI, HIPAA, SOX, NIST, ISO27001, FedRAMP where applicable)
    Hands-on experience with logging, monitoring, Cloud Guard, audit configuration, and threat detection automation.

Preferred Certifications

  • OCI Security Professional (Highly Preferred)
  • OCI Architect Professional
  • CISSP, CISM, CCSK, CEH or equivalent security certification

Soft Skills

  • Strong stakeholder communication and leadership capability
  • Ability to lead security governance and escalations
  • Experience in global delivery environment (onsite/offshore collaboration)

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