OCI Security and Infrastructure Consultant

Maxonic Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Maxonic Inc. is seeking an OCI Security and Infrastructure Consultant to enhance cloud security across their Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This remote role requires hands-on experience in OCI, strong cybersecurity skills, and proficiency in tools like Terraform and Ansible. The consultant will work on configuring security measures, managing IAM policies, and regularly monitoring cloud infrastructure for compliance and security effectiveness.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity or related engineering roles.
• 3+ years hands-on experience specifically with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Solid understanding of security best practices, including least privilege access.

Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain OCI infrastructure components including compute and networking.
• Implement and manage OCI Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies.
• Monitor security alerts and manage updates across OCI-hosted applications.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Infrastructure Management

Networking

IAM Policies

Security Tools

Scripting

Tools

Terraform

Ansible Automation Platform

Cloud Guard

Datadog

GitHub Actions

Job description

OCI Security and Infrastructure Consultant

OCI Security and Infrastructure Consultant

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Maxonic maintains a close and long-term relationship with our direct client. In support of their needs, we are looking for an OCI Security and Infrastructure Consultant.

Job Description:

Job Title: OCI Security and Infrastructure Consultant

Pay Term: Contract / Hourly / W2 only

Work Schedule: Remote

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.

Required Qualifications:

Experience working with security tools like teleport, crowdstrike EDR, tenable, SIEM etc

5+ years of experience in cybersecurity or related engineering roles.

3+ years hands-on experience specifically with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

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.

About Maxonic:

Since 2002 Maxonic has been at the forefront of connecting candidate strengths to client challenges. Our award winning, dedicated team of recruiting professionals are specialized by technology, are great listeners, and will seek to find a position that meets the long-term career needs of our candidates. We take pride in the over 10,000 candidates that we have placed, and the repeat business that we earn from our satisfied clients.

Interested in Applying?

Please apply with your most current resume. Feel free to contact Nina Schindler (408-400-2299/ [e-mail]) for more details.

Seniority level

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Employment type

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  Information Technology

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