OCI Security and Infrastructure Consultant

FOCUSKPI INC; Athens (GA); Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company seeks an OCI Security and Infrastructure Consultant for a 12-month remote contract. The role involves configuring OCI security, maintaining cloud networks, and ensuring compliance with best practices. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in cybersecurity and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, knowledge of automation tools, and a proactive approach to security management.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cybersecurity or engineering.
• 3+ years with OCI experience.
• Scripting knowledge for automation.

Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain OCI infrastructure components.
• Implement and manage OCI IAM and security policies.
• Monitor and respond to security alerts from OCI tools.

Skills

OCI networking

IAM

security best practices

Terraform

Ansible Automation Platform

scripting knowledge

Education

Experience in cybersecurity

5+ years in related engineering roles

3+ years hands-on with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Tools

Security tools

Ansible

Terraform

CI/CD tools with GitHub

Monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog)

Log manipulation tools (e.g., Cribl Stream)

Job description

Job Description

Job Description

FocusKPI is looking for an OCI Security and Infrastructure Consultant to join one of our clients, a high-tech SaaS company.

Work Location: Remote - anywhere in the US
Duration: 12-month contract
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 multi‐cloud networking (Egress and Workload VCNs, firewall/NAT gateways, AWS transit), enforcing traffic‐control 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 end‐to‐end monitoring, alerting, and reliability stack (Datadog, OCI Metrics, 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 Infrastructure‐as‐Code pipeline: Terraform Cloud for resource provisioning, GitHub for source control, GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
• Orchestrate configuration and patch management at scale with Ansible Automation Platform.
• 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.

Qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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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