OCI Cloud Security Engineer

Who we are...

Latitude is a growing Service-Disabled Veteran Owned (SDVOSB) Company within the Federal Sector. We have experience in working with various federal clients across multiple different agencies. We believe in adopting and growing a remote work-from-home culture wherever possible to ensure a healthy work-to-life balance. We believe in automating the mundane and investing in our employees helping them grow their careers over time. We strive for innovation and want to develop solutions that we can take pride in and help break through some of the barriers that exist in technology and the government sectors today.

Description...

We are hiring an OCI Cloud Security Engineer to implement and validate the security posture of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environments for a federal health customer. You will work with system administrators, application teams, and project teams to build, operate, and harden cloud workloads, and you will own the OCI-native security controls that protect them. The role sits on a cloud operations and migration team. This position is fully remote in the United States.

• 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.

• 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 (preferred), 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).

• 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.

Clearance...

• Applicants selected will be subject to a Security Investigation and May need to Meet Requirements for Access to Protected and/or Classified Information

Citizenship...

• Applicants need to be a US Citizen to be considered for the position and have physically resided in the United States for a minimum of 3 years due to background investigation requirements.
  
  

Employee Benefits...

• Medical, Vision, Dental
• Paid Vacation & Sick Time
• Paid Federal Holidays
• 401k Retirement Plan with 100% Company Matching
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Continued Education Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Commuter Benefits Program
• Health Savings Account (HSA)