Security Architect

Oracle Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation is seeking a senior architect to lead the design and evolution of hyper-scale, elastic distributed systems. You will set technical standards, drive performance optimizations, and oversee resilience, telemetry, and security practices across multi-tenant environments.

Responsibilities include leading architecture across interdependent platforms, establishing SLIs/SLOs, and guiding CI/CD and IaC-driven automation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience leading architecture across interdependent platforms.
• Proven ability to design fault-tolerant, scalable systems with CI/CD and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Provide visionary leadership in the architecture of highly scalable distributed systems.
• Resolve performance and scalability bottlenecks to drive optimizations.
• Define industry standards for scalability requirements.
• Design systems to scale with elasticity and handle up/down scaling.
• Advocate for data plane platform improvements and innovation.
• Establish KPIs and telemetry, dashboards, and alerting for system health.
• Lead fault-tolerant design with replication and auto failover.
• Direct incident management, RCA, and long-term remediation strategies.
• Lead security measures for multi-tenant environments and patch management.
• Oversee automation of IaC and change management across environments.

Skills

Distributed systems architecture

Performance optimization

System reliability design

Chaos testing

CI/CD automation

Security baselines

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Incident management

Technical leadership

Tools

Telemetry dashboards

DevOps pipelines

Job description

• Does this position require a security clearance? No
• Years 10+ years
• Additional Info Visa / work permit sponsorship is not available for this position
• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English

Job Description

Operating at LOB-wide scope; sets the vision and technical standards for hyper-scale, elastic distributed systems. Leads architecture and optimization across interdependent platforms, eliminating performance and scalability bottlenecks and advancing innovation in data plane technologies. Engineers fault-tolerant, in-service‑upgradable designs that withstand partitions and network unreliability, establishing SLO‑aligned durability and availability bars for other services. Defines organizational KPIs and telemetry practices; implements advanced dashboards, chaos strategies, and CI/CD-integrated resilience testing; and promotes formal verification and novel replication/synchronization approaches. Provides thought leadership during complex incidents, sets operational readiness and SOP standards, and drives long‑term corrective strategies. Establishes organizational security baselines and remediation programs for multi‑tenant environments, ensures compliance and documentation quality, and leads creation of state‑of‑the‑art automation (IaC) and change strategies enabling safe, automated patching, updates, and rollbacks.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Provide visionary leadership in the architecture of highly scalable distributed systems across various businesses, ensuring horizontal and vertical scalability and overall performance, including leveraging distributed state management tools.

Resolve performance and scalability bottlenecks to drive significant optimizations and improvements for hyper-scale code and/or systems, leading to industry-leading performance.

Define a new set of industry standards for scalability requirements.

Design systems across the organization to scale with elasticity (e.g., effectively scaling both up and down).

Advocate for innovation and improvements to data plane platforms.

Evaluate whether systems are meeting nonfunctional scalability requirements, and proactively anticipate growing business needs across the organization.

System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Design:

Lead the design and implementation of highly sophisticated fault-tolerant systems across the organization capable of withstanding in-service updates by implementing innovative redundancy, replication, and automatic failover capabilities.

Leverage expertise to oversee the design of interdependent systems that effectively handle service disruptions (e.g., network partitions) by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance.

Lead the optimization and identification of novel and innovative techniques to manage network unreliability.

Leverage industry insights to design interdependent systems that are durable and adhere to service level objectives (SLOs), setting new standards for availability and durability of other computing services across the organization.

System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Performance:

Set organizational standards for defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and telemetry to identify risks, gaps, or cyclical dependencies in running systems.

Innovate and implement new approaches across the organization for creating and customizing dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to proactively ensure system health and reliability.

Proactively evaluate and design system functionality for future products or businesses still in conception.

Design and implement chaos testing strategies to evaluate system resilience and durability, and help drive cross-team integration of chaos testing to support the CI/CD pipeline.

System Design & Architecture - Correctness / Availability:

Evaluate innovative industry standards and techniques for verifying correctness.

Publish and present across the organization on advanced formal verification techniques for system design correctness.

Create novel strategies across the organization for data replication and synchronization to ensure data integrity and availability.

Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:

• Provide thought leadership in diagnosing, debugging, and resolving complex issues in active, interdependent systems across the organization to support ongoing operation.
• Oversee strategic initiatives to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
• Maintain deep expertise in dependencies, dependents, and owned systems across the organization to drive effective troubleshooting and performance.
• Set standards for operational readiness and standard operating procedures across the organization, and hold third-party partners accountable for meeting those standards.
• Identify innovative and novel approaches for managing incident response and root cause investigations that lead to long-term solutions.

Compliance & Security:

• Lead the design and implementation of advanced security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, setting organizational standards.
• Lead execution of strategic remediation plans to address identified security gaps and ensure continuous improvement.

Automation & Change Management:

• Oversee efforts to ensure cloud infrastructure is in compliance with industry standards and regulations, and guide documentation efforts across the organization.
• Lead the development of state-of-the-art automation tools and strategies (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)).
• Design strategies for effective change management of patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and design interdependent systems across the organization to allow for automation of these processes.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

• Oversee timelines, deliverables, and budgets where applicable for projects or initiatives in the line of business that achieve critical business objectives, ensuring milestones are completed efficiently and in alignment with requirements; set priorities at an organizational level and adjust as needed to accommodate resource or timeline changes, aligned with business needs.
• Drive collaboration across multiple lines of business and external stakeholders to influence alignment on expectations, strategic objectives, and proposed solutions; cultivate strategic partnerships with senior business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, pursuing opportunities for expanding partnerships and ensuring long-term organizational success; promote a culture of transparency and inclusivity where all voices are valued and respected.

Problem Solving:

• Serve as a technical expert and resource across the line