Cloud Security Engineer

Job Summary

The Cloud Security Engineer performs security reviews of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, Oracle SaaS platforms, and third-party SaaS solutions to ensure alignment with enterprise security standards, regulatory requirements, and risk management practices. This role evaluates cloud and SaaS solutions across infrastructure, platform, application, and data layers, providing actionable security guidance to support secure-by-design adoption, governance, certification, and onboarding processes.

Responsibilities

• Conduct security reviews of OCI services, SaaS applications, architectures, integrations, and configurations.
• Identify security risks, control gaps, and remediation opportunities.
• Evaluate solutions against enterprise security standards, policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Provide security guidance for secure deployment and adoption of cloud and SaaS services.
• Map OCI and SaaS implementations to enterprise controls and industry frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, CSA CCM, CIS).
• Validate compliance with secure configuration baselines and reference architectures.
• Support development and maintenance of OCI and SaaS security standards, guardrails, and onboarding requirements.
• Assess new cloud and SaaS capabilities and provide security recommendations.
• Support implementation of OCI-native security controls and governance capabilities.
• Affiliate with security automation through Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and policy-as-code frameworks.
• Support deployment and integration of security monitoring, posture management, and compliance capabilities.
• Partner with platform engineering teams to embed security into deployment and operational processes.
• Perform SaaS onboarding assessments and certification reviews.
• Evaluate SaaS architectures, integrations, data flows, and security controls.
• Conduct SaaS posture reviews and assess configuration drift, identity governance, and data protection controls.
• Support SaaS inventory management, Shadow IT discovery, and vendor security assessments.
• Document findings, recommendations, and evidence to support governance and certification decisions.
• Provide security expertise during design reviews, onboarding activities, exception management, and remediation efforts.

Qualifications

• Proven experience performing cloud security assessments within OCI or comparable cloud platforms.
• Experience conducting SaaS security reviews and certifications.
• Strong understanding of Identity & Access Management, Network Security, Data Protection, Cloud Logging & Monitoring, Container & Platform Security, Tooling & Frameworks, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud Shared Responsibility Models, and Secure-by-Design Principles.
• Strong comprehension of foundational knowledge including cloud shared responsibility models and secure-by-design principles.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.