OCI Security and Infrastructure Consultant

FocusKPI is looking for anOCI Security and Infrastructure Consultantto join one of our clients a high-tech SaaS company.

Work Location:Remote - anywhere in the US
Duration:12-monthcontract
Pay Range:$58/hr to $68/hr

**No C2C resumes are considered**

Responsibilities:

• Configure and maintain OCI infrastructure components including compute networking (VCNs subnets gateways) storage and load balancers.
• Design deploy and maintain multicloud networking (Egress and Workload VCNs firewall/NAT gateways AWS transit) enforcing trafficcontrol policies.
• Implement and manage OCI Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies compartments dynamic groups and federation.
• Harden OCI infrastructure according to CIS Benchmarks and cloud security best practices.
• Apply security patches and manage updates across OCI-hosted applications and services.
• Design and operate an endtoend monitoring alerting and reliability stack (Datadog OCIMetrics PagerDuty) with SLO/SLA tracking and cost optimization.
• Monitor and respond to security alerts and events from OCI tools like Cloud Guard Logging and Security Zones.
• Build and maintain an InfrastructureasCode pipeline: TerraformCloud for resource provisioning GitHub for source control GitHubActions for CI/CD.
• Orchestrate configuration and patch management at scale with AnsibleAutomationPlatform.
• Configure and maintain backup disaster recovery and high availability setups within the OCI environment.
• Perform regular reviews of access entitlements and audit logs to ensure least privilege and policy compliance.
• Assist with security incident investigations and remediation within the OCI environment.
• Work closely with security and infrastructure teams to enforce secure controls and infrastructure best practices (IaC etc)
• Collaborate with developers integration engineers finance and security stakeholders to improve reliability and expand OCI capabilities.
• Actively monitor assess and recommend tactical and strategic initiatives based on new and emerging threats posing risk to cloud computing environments.
• Manage remediation efforts after security assessment findings outline weaknesses requiring attention.
• Provide documentation and knowledge transfer to internal teams.

• 5 years of experience in cybersecurity or related engineering roles.
• 3 years hands-on experience specifically with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Experience working with security tools like Teleport CrowdStrike EDR Tenable SIEM etc
• Strong understanding of OCI networking IAM compartments security lists and resource management.
• Experience with OCI-native security services (e.g. Cloud Guard Security Zones Logging Vault).
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform preferred).
• Experience in Ansible Automation Platform or other configuration management tooling.
• Solid understanding of security best practices including least privilege access encryption system hardening vulnerability management and key management.
• Familiarity with compliance requirements (e.g. ISO 27001 SOC 2 HIPAA) as they apply to OCI.
• Experience supporting production-grade workloads in a cloud environment.
• Scripting knowledge (e.g. Bash Python) for automation and monitoring.

• OCI Certified Architect or OCI Certified Security Professional.
• Prior experience integrating OCI with SIEM tools (e.g. Splunk QRadar).
• Experience working in hybrid environments (on-prem OCI).
• Experience with Monitoring and Alert tools (Pref: Datadog)
• Experience with logging pipelines and log manipulation (Pref: Cribl Stream)
• Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions CI/CD and DevSecOps processes and tooling.
• Experience with AWS Networking and multi-cloud connectivity is a bonus.

**No C2C resumes are considered**

Thank you!

FocusKPI Hiring Team

Founded in 2010 FocusKPI Inc. (FocusKPI) is a data science and technology firm specializing in predictive analytics practice and methodologies. FocusKPI is a US company headquartered in Silicon Valley California with an East Coast office in Boston Massachusetts.

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