Senior Manager, Network Audit and Compliance

Job Description

The Ideal Candidate

Do you enjoy complex puzzles and challenging problems? Do you believe comprehensive risk analysis should guide design decisions? Do you value structured processes and continuous improvement? Do you believe that security and reliability are achieved through comprehensive risk assessment, problem avoidance, detailed planning, and precise execution? Do you believe variability and complexity are the anthesis of stability and reliability? If you answer yes to each, then Oracle's IES Networking Organization is looking for YOU!

Who we are

Oracle Cloud continues innovative breakthroughs providing Autonomous Database and cloud services to an ever-increasing customer base. Oracle's Infrastructure Engineering Services (IES) Cloud Services group is an industry leader focused on innovation, service delivery, and migration of traditional, on-premises workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Our customer base includes fortune 500 and industry leaders across a variety of sectors including Health, AI, Federal/Government, Communications, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Hospitality, Retail, Utilities, Construction and Engineering. Together, we are purposeful, industry leading experts in cloud service delivery providing the next generation of Cloud services hosted in the Oracle Cloud.

What we do

Within IES, the Cloud & Data Center Network Engineering group plays a critical and central role in Oracle Health & AI (OHAI), providing a secure, highly available, and reliable network infrastructure spanning multiple US and International hosting environments. The expansive world-wide network includes physical data centers, OCI and hybrid cloud environments, all of which provide hosting to Oracle Health customers and numerous Global Industry Units (GIUs). The group's responsibilities include traditional routing and switching, advanced fabric technologies, application delivery, network automation, virtual cloud networking, transit services, network security, and full lifecycle management of hardware and software components. The migration of Cerner and OHAI tenants to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a core priority of the group.

What you will do

As the Network Audit and Compliance Manager you will lead a team of highly skilled network engineers, program managers, and security champions maintaining standard operating procedures and demonstrating network controls. The audit and compliance manager ensures the group adheres to established policies & regulations ensuring readiness for multiple industry standard audits and compliance evaluations. In a structured approach, your team will continuously assess and evaluate network systems and process readiness for HIPAA, NIST, PCI DSS, GDPR, SOC 1 & 2, ISO 27001, SOX, as well as other internal & external audits.

The Networking Audit and Compliance Manager serves as the organizational leader & senior security champion ensuring preparedness for organizational audits, compliance reviews, vulnerability management, security controls and standard operating procedure (SOP) alignment. You will be responsible for the development, establishment, and communication of security policies, standards, guidelines, and the education and awarness of these requirements across our network organization. You will prepare for and perform internal audits, develop procedures, and assess potential risks to the network environments. Additionally, you will drive vulnerability remediation for network assets including triage and workflow management across the networking organization. The role advises Senior Leadership, LOB & OCI's Security teams.

Responsibilities

Duties and Core Responsibilities

• Manage the compliance program: Implement and oversee the networking compliance program that promotes awareness and enforces adherence to all prescribed compliance requirements. Stay informed about changes in national and international laws, industry standards, and government directives that could impact the organization.
• Establish and maintain networking policies: Develop, implement, review, and maintain network security policies, standards, and procedures based on Oracle Security and regulatory requirements (e.g., HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST, SOC1 /3, etc.).
• Liaison with External Bodies: Interact with external auditors and regulatory bodies to defend the company's compliance systems and ensure proper documentation and adherence to requirements.
• Create a compliance framework: Build and maintain a networking controls matrix aligned with multiple compliance frameworks to ensure continuous adherence across the organization.
• Advise leadership: Report to and advise senior leadership of existing risks, vulnerabilities, issues, and the overall compliance posture of the production network environment. Identify and recommend necessary risk mitigation actions.

Auditing and Risk Assessment

• Lead & participate in audits: Independently lead internal audits and assessments to check for adherence to regulations and identify areas for improvement. Coordinate with external and regulatory auditors to demonstrate and/or provide evidence of adherence to established controls.
• Conduct risk assessments: Perform risk assessments of the network, cloud environment, networking tools, & networking infrastructure hosts to identify vulnerabilities and prioritize risk mitigation/remediation or issues that could lead to non-compliance, system compromises, and reduced security posture.
• Remediate findings: Develop and implement remediation plans to address issues identified in internal and external audits. Drive the implementation of these corrective actions across the networking organization.
• Produce compliance reports: Develop and maintain automated reporting and visualizations providing evidence of compliance for auditors.
• Monitor controls: Ensure that all information system controls and monitoring systems are operating effectively. Ensure Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are created and maintained aligning to and supporting existing controls.
• Violation Investigation: Investigate instances of non-compliance or potential ethical violations and take appropriate action to address them.

Technical and Operational Activities

• Monitor security reports: Continuous monitoring and review of security logs and reports identifying issues and driving them to resolution across the networking group.
• Manage firewall configuration: Monitor and review firewall configurations, logging, and change records for compliance to established security controls.
• Evaluate access controls: Review system user access records to least privileged access is provided across networking systems. Ensure accounts are properly maintained including timely updates and terminations when necessary.
• Implement security solutions: Participate in network architecture & design reviews, recommending implementation of secure infrastructure standards and configurations.
• Plan for disaster recovery: Lead networking organizational disaster recovery plans and strategies.

Training and Collaboration

• Provide security training: Develop and deliver security and compliance awareness training programs to networking teams directly related to security policies and procedures.
• Collaborate with stakeholders: Work closely with various internal departments (Security, Legal, Product Development, Network Operations, Problem Management) and third-party vendors to resolve compliance issues.
• Maintain vendor management: Continuously monitor vendor vulnerability announcements, and equipment lifecycle announcements, and assist with the network Life Cycle Management (LCM) program.

People Management & Leadership

• People management: Lead and manage small, geographically distributed (remote worker) team of Network Engineers, Program Managers, and Security Champions
• Team leadership and performance: Guide employees, set clear goals and priorities, monitor progress, conduct performance evaluations
• Employee career development: Mentor, coach, guide, and direct team members providing consistent and constructive feedback. Provide opportunities for training and career development activities.
• Conflict resolution: Assess problems, gather information, mediate and coach employees to resolve internal conflicts within the team and with peer teams.
• Operational and Project management: Manage and conduct daily intake and scrum sessions. Prioritize and assign work items, tasks, and deliverables. Establish and manage strategic roadmaps, and critical projects.
• Change management: Perform planned change reviews, enforce compliance with change management procedures and processes. Drive continuous improvement of network change program.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship, Government background screening with ability to pass a federal background check (SF-85)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent hands-on experience
• 7+ years of experience in enterprise-scale network operations or network program management
• 3+ years managing high-performing technical teams
• Demonstrated success leading network audit and compliance initiatives
• Expertise with IT General Controls (ITGC), SOX, PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST, SOX, SOC 1 & 2, and other regulatory compliance frameworks, including drafting policies, implementing systems and processes, ongoing compliance assessment, and executing recurring audits.
• Experience with a variety of IT and ISS tools and systems, Advanced Thread Protection, Cloud Computing, Cyber Risks, and of course Network Security
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum project management practices
• Experience integrating and operationalizing network analytics tools (Grafana, Elastic, SNMP traps, syslogs, Apex, PowerBi)
• Knowledge of networking vendor lifecycle programs including vulnerability announcements
• Demonstrated experience with incident response and vulnerability management
• Able and willing to operate in a 24x7x365 environment including support and participation in role specific on-call escalation support

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $105,000 to $223,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - M3

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