Security Architect

About the Role

As a Security Architect at Oracle, you will be instrumental in designing and governing security reference architectures, standards, and controls for critical cloud primitives such as compute, network, storage, identity and access, data protection, container/Kubernetes platforms, AI/ML systems, and developer platforms. This role involves leading high-impact design reviews, conducting threat modeling, and defining cryptographic strategy. You will guide zero-trust adoption and drive detection, response, and resilience patterns at scale, collaborating with senior leaders and product teams, mentoring engineers, and influencing roadmaps through clear communication and principled prioritization.

Ideal candidates possess deep experience in 'building clouds,' large-scale distributed systems, and security-by-design, with a proven record of delivering secure platforms. This position demands a practical, inclusive, and customer-obsessed approach, balancing rigor with velocity. If you thrive at the intersection of architecture, hands-on engineering, and incident leadership, and aspire to make a significant impact across Oracle's cloud infrastructure, this opportunity is for you.

About The Business

Oracle’s Secure Technology, Architecture and Safety (STAS) group dictates the strategic technical direction for security across Oracle, shaping the future of secure cloud computing while maintaining deep partnerships with engineering and operations. We are actively seeking a Security Architect (Architect/Distinguished Engineer caliber) to define comprehensive security architecture for hyperscale cloud platforms and services, elevate the security standards throughout the software lifecycle, and lead responses to complex security incidents.

What You’ll Do

• Set strategy: Define multi-year security architecture strategy and roadmaps for cloud foundations, identity, data protection, platform security, AI/ML safety, and secure supply chain.
• Authoritative design: Publish security reference architectures, control baselines, patterns, and design blueprints; lead cross-organizational design reviews and architecture councils.
• Build the cloud securely: Advise and co-design core cloud services (compute, networking, storage, virtualization, container/orchestration, service mesh) with secure-by-default configurations.
• Identity and zero trust: Advance strong identity, least privilege, policy-as-code, workload identity, and continuous verification aligned to zero-trust principles.
• Cryptography and data protection: Drive KMS/HSM strategy, key lifecycle, envelope encryption, tokenization, privacy-enhancing technologies, and data governance at scale.
• Secure SDLC: Embed threat modeling, secure coding, SAST/DAST/IAST, fuzzing, software provenance/SBOMs, signing, and deployment gates into developer platforms and CI/CD.
• Detection and response: Partner with SOC and service teams on high-signal detection, telemetry standards, adversary emulation, incident response playbooks, and chaos/resilience testing.
• Risk, compliance, and safety: Translate regulatory and customer requirements into engineering-ready controls and evidence; integrate safety-by-design for emerging technologies.
• Incident leadership: Lead or advise on significant incidents; perform post-incident reviews, drive systemic fixes, and establish preventative guardrails and metrics.
• Influence at scale: Produce clear design documents and RFCs; mentor senior engineers; run architecture reviews; build communities of practice; create learning pathways and reusable assets.

What You’ll Bring

• 12+ years in security architecture/engineering for large-scale distributed systems; significant experience 'building clouds' (IaaS/PaaS) or platform engineering.
• Expertise in at least three: identity and access management; network and micro-segmentation; container/Kubernetes security; virtualization/compute; data protection/crypto; detection/response; supply chain security.
• Hands-on depth with one or more: OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP; Kubernetes; service mesh; Terraform/Policy-as-Code; CI/CD; Linux hardening; observability stacks.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-organizational initiatives, influence without authority, and deliver secure-by-default solutions at scale.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to produce clear design documents, threat models, and executive narratives.
• Commitment to inclusive collaboration and mentoring.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing KMS/HSM services, workload identity, confidential computing/TEE, or privacy-enhancing technologies.
• Proven leadership in major incident response and post-incident systemic improvements.
• Track record of published standards, OSS contributions, or patents in cloud security.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Leadership Competencies

• Performance, drive, and execution: Deliver value and shape a performance-driven culture, ensuring accountability and communicating expectations.
• Collaboration: Understand and promote the value of collaboration and inclusivity, aligning strategic aims with organizational goals.
• Communicating for impact: Inspire confidence by championing a clear understanding and support of organizational strategy and objectives.
• Inspirational leadership: Build a reputation for strategy by inspiring and empowering others while showing leadership internally and externally.
• Competitive edge: Anticipate changes in customer needs and seize opportunities to build value, encourage innovation, and meet objectives.

Key skills/competency

• Cloud Security
• Security Architecture
• Identity & Access Management
• Data Protection
• Kubernetes Security
• Zero Trust Principles
• Threat Modeling
• Incident Response
• Cryptography
• Secure SDLC