Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Security Lead

 We Are
Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients’ needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle. 

You Are
Passionate about security, love what you do and have a genuine desire to outsmart the bad guys. You have the experience to analyze a clients’ security posture, anticipate security requirements and help find right-sized solutions based on industry leading practices. You have a proven track record working successfully in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. You’re a creative, analytical problem solver with above average documentation skills who can speak to both technical and non-technical audiences. Can apply deep security skills to design, build and protect enterprise systems, applications, data, assets and people for Accenture and our clients. You are eager to put your skills to use by helping us help our clients inject security at every level of their organization.

We are seeking an experienced Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Security Lead to design, implement, and govern security across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environments. This role will lead OCI security architecture, identity and access management, network security, monitoring, compliance, and DevSecOps controls for enterprise cloud programs.

Key Responsibilities
•    Design and implement secure OCI tenancy, compartment, and landing zone architecture.
•    Define OCI security standards, guardrails, policies, and reusable security patterns.
•    Manage OCI IAM, federation, least privilege access, privileged access, and break-glass controls.
•    Secure OCI networking, including VCNs, subnets, NSGs, security lists, gateways, DRGs, private endpoints, and WAF.
•    Configure and monitor OCI Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Vulnerability Scanning, Logging, Audit, Events, and Notifications.
•    Integrate OCI logs and alerts with SIEM/SOAR platforms such as Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar, or ServiceNow.
•    Implement encryption, key management, secrets management, certificates, and data protection controls.
•    Support compliance with frameworks such as CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, SOX, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR.
•    Embed security into DevSecOps, CI/CD, Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, and automation processes.
•    Lead security reviews, risk assessments, remediation planning, audit support, and executive reporting.

Required Skills
•    4+ years of hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
•    8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, cloud security, infrastructure security, or IAM.
•    Strong knowledge of OCI IAM, networking, compute, storage, database security, logging, and monitoring.
•    Experience with OCI security services including Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Vault, Vulnerability Scanning, WAF, Bastion, Audit, and Logging.
•    Experience integrating OCI with enterprise IAM, PAM, SIEM, SOAR, and ticketing platforms.
•    Strong understanding of cloud security, Zero Trust, encryption, key management, and compliance frameworks.
•    Experience with Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, Ansible, or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
•    Ability to work with technical teams, auditors, risk leaders, and executive stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
•    OCI Security Professional certification.
•    OCI Architect Associate or Professional certification.
•    CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCSP, or equivalent certification.
•    Experience with Oracle Fusion SaaS, Oracle Database, Exadata Cloud Service, Autonomous Database, or multi-cloud environments.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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