Security Architect

About the role

You will design security and compliance reference architectures, standards, and controls for Oracle Cloud services and platforms, with a focus on continuous compliance and audit-ready engineering. This role is a hybrid of compliance engineering (building automation, evidence pipelines, compliance-as-code) and security GRC architecture (control design, framework mapping, risk decisions, and governance at scale).

You will lead high-impact design reviews, control and evidence strategy, and requirements-to-implementation translation across cloud primitives (compute, network, storage), identity and access, container/Kubernetes platforms, AI/ML systems, and developer platforms. You will collaborate with senior leaders and product teams, mentor engineers, and influence roadmaps through clear writing, principled prioritization, and metrics—while directly authoring and owning OSCAL artifacts and scaling through others.
Ideal candidates bring deep experience “building clouds” or securing large-scale distributed systems; strong fluency in global compliance regimes (including but not limited to NIST-800 series, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, PCI, FedRAMP, GDPR, and other international/regional frameworks); and a track record of delivering automation-first compliance outcomes (e.g., continuous control validation, evidence automation, and measurable reduction in audit preparation effort).
You are hands-on, inclusive, and customer-obsessed, balancing rigor with velocity.

About the business

Oracle’s Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) organization enables secure, compliant cloud delivery by partnering deeply with engineering and operations. We standardize control outcomes, strengthen evidence quality, and operationalize compliance through scalable patterns, automation, and measurable risk reduction—helping Oracle meet customer, regulatory, and industry expectations.

What you'll do

• Set strategy: Define multi-year GRC and compliance engineering strategy and roadmaps for continuous compliance, control automation, evidence pipelines, and audit readiness across Oracle products and services—focused on reducing manual audit toil through automation and standardization.
• Authoritative design: Publish security/compliance reference architectures, control baselines, evidence standards, and implementation patterns; lead cross-org reviews that raise the bar on auditability and continuous assurance.
• Build compliance into the cloud: Partner with core service teams (compute, networking, storage, virtualization, container/orchestration, service mesh) to drive secure-by-default and compliant-by-default designs, with controls that are measurable and operationally sustainable.
Frameworks
• controls: Translate regulatory and customer requirements into engineering-ready controls, acceptance criteria, and implementation guidance across regimes including (but not limited to) NIST-800, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, PCI, FedRAMP, GDPR, and regional frameworks—ensuring mappings are rationalized and scalable across multiple regimes.
  OSCAL ownership: Directly write, curate, and own OSCAL artifacts (e.g., catalogs/profiles/component definitions and related content as applicable), and establish scalable operating models (templates, review workflows, QA checks) so teams can contribute and maintain artifacts over time.
• Compliance-as-code: Drive adoption of policy-as-code and compliance-as-code approaches (automated control validation, CI/CD gates, drift detection, and standardized attestations) to reduce manual audit effort and improve consistency.
• Evidence engineering: Design and standardize evidence collection pipelines with lineage, traceability, retention, and quality controls; ensure evidence is high-signal, reproducible, and mapped to controls and system boundaries—prioritizing automation, normalization, and audit-ready reporting.
• Continuous monitoring & remediation: Design scalable mechanisms to continuously detect control drift and drive remediation (automated and/or workflow-driven), with clear metrics and accountability for sustained compliance outcomes.
• Risk, compliance, and safety: Partner with privacy, legal, and security stakeholders to incorporate privacy-by-design and AI governance needs (e.g., ISO 42001) into engineering controls and evidence strategies—especially for AI-enabled applications and services.
• Incident leadership (compliance perspective): Ensure compliance controls remain resilient through incidents and major changes; drive post-incident reviews and systemic improvements to guardrails and evidence quality.
• Influence at scale: Produce clear design docs and executive narratives; mentor engineers and program leaders; build communities of practice and reusable assets for continuous compliance.

What you'll bring

• 12+ years in security architecture/engineering, compliance engineering, or GRC technical leadership for large-scale distributed systems; significant experience “building clouds” (IaaS/PaaS) or platform engineering
• Deep expertise in security/compliance frameworks and audit expectations, including several of: NIST-800 series (e.g., NIST 800-53), SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, PCI, FedRAMP, GDPR, and international/regional frameworks (ability to map and rationalize across regimes)
• Demonstrated ability to translate requirements into engineering-ready controls, define control intent and testability, and drive implementation across multiple teams with measurable outcomes
• Demonstrated experience building continuous compliance automation programs/platforms (e.g., control-to-requirement mappings, automated evidence collection, continuous monitoring) that materially reduce audit prep effort and builder toil
• Hands-on OSCAL proficiency: capable of authoring and owning OSCAL artifacts directly, and creating scalable contribution models (templates, review workflows, QA checks, governance).
• Strong experience with compliance-as-code / policy-as-code, automated control validation, CI/CD integration, configuration baselines, and continuous monitoring
• Hands-on depth with one or more: OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP; Kubernetes; Terraform/Policy-as-Code; CI/CD; Linux hardening; observability stacks (enough to design/validate controls and evidence feasibility)
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-org initiatives, influence without authority, and deliver compliant-by-default solutions at scale—including leading through engineering managers/TPMs and partnering effectively with audit/assessors when needed
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to produce clear design docs, control narratives, evidence strategies, and executive-level updates
Commitment to inclusive collaboration and mentoring

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing and operating evidence pipelines and assurance platforms (control testing automation, evidence normalization, lineage, retention, dashboards, and audit-ready reporting)
• Experience building or operating large-scale detection and remediation pipelines that continuously reduce misconfigurations/control drift across large environments
• Experience partnering with assessors/auditors and driving remediation programs across large engineering organizations
• Familiarity with secure SDLC controls and software supply chain assurance (SBOMs, signing, provenance, deployment gates), especially where they support compliance outcomes
  Experience defining security/compliance specifications for AI-enabled applications and embedding them into SDLC workflows (aligned to AI governance expectations such as ISO 42001)
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)

Leadership competencies

• Performance, drive, and execution
• You’ll deliver value and shape a performance-driven culture while ensuring accountability and communicating expectations
  Collaboration
• You understand and promote the value of collaboration and inclusivity and can align strategic aims with organizational goals
  Communicating for impact
• You inspire confidence by championing a clear understanding and support of organizational strategy and objectives
  Inspirational leadership
• You build a reputation for strategy by inspiring and empowering others while showing leadership internally and externally
  Competitive edge
• You anticipate changes in customer needs and seize opportunities to build value, encourage innovation, and meet objectives