Principal Applied Cryptographer
Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Development

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.

Values are OCI’s foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.

You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for an Applied Cryptographer who understands cryptographic primitives and is passionate about improving and solving for complex cryptography problems. You should understand symmetric encryption, public key encryption, digital signatures, and message authentication codes. You should understand protocols like TLS and IPSec.  You should have a basic understanding of cryptanalytic techniques such as by side-channel attacks.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintaining easy to use, secure, open source encryption tools and libraries used by internal and external customers
• Own software development lifecycle; define, prioritize, design, test, and implement features for Encryption in Transit, Encryption at Rest, and cloud-specific cryptographic problems at scale
• Collaborate with development engineers on open-source, client-side cryptographic tool libraries
• Help our customers protect their data and accelerate use of cryptography in all OCI services.
• Develop and collaborate on user guides, developer guides, API references, tutorials, code examples, blog posts, and presentations
• Describe the architecture and operation of cloud-based service that generates and protects encryption keys for customers

 Qualifications

• 5+ Years of experience with applied cryptography and the fundamentals of cryptographic primitives
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Programming language such as Java, Python, Ruby, Rust, C, C++, or C#
• Knowledge of AGILE project methodology and demonstrated success architecting and implementing software systems
• Experience with REST architecture and RESTFUL APIs
• Strong collaboration and communication skills

 Preferred

• Experience with Hardware Security Modules, Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs), or other cryptographic hardware
• Experience with OpenSSL and FIPS
• Experience with distributed systems and micro-service architecture

Responsible for the planning, design and build of security architectures; oversees the implementation of network and computer security and ensures compliance with corporate security policies and procedures.

Responsible for advanced planning, design and build of security systems, applications, environments and architectures; oversees the implementation of security systems, applications, environments and architectures and ensures compliance with information security standards and corporate security policies and procedures.
Provides technical advice and direction to support the design and development of secure architectures.
May participate in an incident management team, bringing advanced-level skills to respond to security events in line with Oracle incident response playbooks. Investigates purported intrusions and breaches, and oversees root cause analysis.  Coordinates incidents with other business units and may act as Incident Commander of serious incidents. Develops new methods, and playbooks, as well as sophisticated scripts, applications, and tools, and trains others in their use.
May participate in an incident management team, responding to security events in line with Oracle incident response playbooks. Investigates purported intrusions and breaches, and oversees root cause analysis.  Coordinates incidents with other business units and may act as incident commander of serious incidents. Participates in developing new methods, playbooks throughout Oracle.
Evaluates existing and proposed technical architectures for security risk, provides technical advice to support the design and development of secure architectures and recommends security controls to mitigate those risks. Evaluations of internal security architecture may include design assessment, risk assessment, and threat modeling.
Brings advanced-level skills to research, evaluate, track, and manage information security threats and vulnerabilities in situations where in-depth analysis of ambiguous information is required, and where computer programming/scripting knowledge is required.
Work with Senior management to develop and implement a multi-year security roadmap
Focus on operational and strategic level tasks, and provide counsel and guidance to the junior level security operations engineers in the department.

Minimum of 8 years related experience in an information security role supporting security programs and security engineering/architecture in complex enterprise environments. Hands on experience with enterprise security architecture, engineering and implementation required.
Knowledge of compliance program security controls, like ISO 27001, SOC 2, HITRUST, and FedRAMP, as applied to cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaS operations.
Familiarity with SDLC principles and scripting & programming languages (such as Terraform, Python, and Ruby).
Strong knowledge of:  Cloud architecture and security principles.  Risk Management Frameworks.  *nix and Windows system administration.
Experience with: Logging and log analysis.  Identity management principles and technology.
Preferred but not required qualifications include:
Bachelor-level university degree in a relevant field from an accredited university, or equivalent. 
Strong knowledge of web technologies, middleware, database, OS, firewalls, network communication protocols and methods.
Knowledge of database security principles.
Knowledge of encryption technologies and architectures.
Expert level experience in evaluating and assessing security threats across a variety of environments and industries.
Expert level understanding of secure networking principles, routers, switches and load balancers.