Security Architect

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

System Design & Architecture - System Scalability:

• 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.

Collaboration & Partnership:

· 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 of business to resolve high-impact, ambiguous, or novel issues using advanced methodologies and techniques; drive strategic problem-solving initiatives, leveraging information and/or data from wide-ranging sources to ensure efficient resolution and prevent recurrence.

Continuous Learning:

· Leverage deep expertise of the industry and multiple areas to serve as a thought leader within Oracle and to mentor other leaders and experts; contribute to the advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g., conference presentations, white papers, research contributions); continuously build expertise by anticipating future trends, technologies, and industry standards to develop best practices and strategic goals that position the line of business as an industry leader; develop and implement strategies for continuous learning and knowledge sharing, fostering an environment where learning is prioritized.

Continuous Improvement:

· Lead and influence the design of innovative and high-impact processes and approaches to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness across the line of business; foster a culture of idea generation and seeking feedback on solutions across departments and functions for continued improvement.

Performance and Development:

· Provide thought leadership regarding organizational talent strategy, collaborating with executive leadership and HR to anticipate talent needs based on industry forecast; impart strategic guidance to shape the talent development pipeline

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $169,800 to $355,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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