Senior Principal Security Researcher

Do you have a passion for high scale services and working with some of Oracle's most critical customers?  We are seeking experienced, passionate, and talented security researchers who have genuine excitement for and interest in computer security. You must relish the challenge of assessing large, complex software products. Creativity is highly valued; being able to find novel bugs and stitch them together to create something greater than the sum of their parts is essential in this role.

Who We Are

We are a world-class team of high calibre application security researchers and analysts who thrive on new challenges.  We are an inclusive and diverse team with a full spectrum of experience distributed globally.  We have the resources of a large enterprise and the energy of a start-up, working on a critical Greenfield software assurance project collaboratively with our cloud and mobile engineering teams.  The Software Assurance organisation has the mission is to make application security and software assurance, at scale, a reality.  We are a dedicated team, leveraging each other’s insights and abilities to produce cutting edge solutions to difficult problems through automation and CI/CD.  Join us to grow your career and create the future of software assurance at scale together.

Work You’ll Do

As a member of our team, you will be responsible for planning and delivering in depth security assessments across a variety of products and services. Your next project could be anything from analysis of existing architecture for security concerns, to designing software and infrastructure systems with secure patterns. Other responsibilities include:

• Designing and evaluating complex systems for computer security
• Addressing a broad range of strategic security concerns in infrastructure and software engineering designs
• Keeping up with new technologies for technical expertise and business analysis
• Addressing challenges in design, business goals, and stakeholder constraints for secure architecture
• Create, review and maintain threat models for key components
• Scope, prioritise and review security assessments and vulnerability research
• Performing risk assessments of complex systems
• Mentor members of the team in computer security as a role model

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field (e.g. Electrical Engineering)
• 12+ years of relevant experience in one or more of the following areas: software/product security architecture, red (offensive) or blue (defensive) security.
• Demonstrable experience in designing and evaluating complex systems for computer security
• Demonstrable experience in creating, maintaining, and reviewing threat models for software development or operations teams
• Aptitude for self-study, setting and achieving long term goals (for example, learning an unfamiliar programming language or technology)
• Ability to effectively assess and communicate risks and appropriate levels of urgency to management and engineering staff
• Excellent organisational, presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
• Must be legally authorized to work in Australia without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• This role offers domestically located flexibility of workplace
• This role does not require access to a cleared work environment. Security clearances are not required, and active clearances cannot be sponsored.

Nice to Have

• Experience working in a large cloud or Internet software company
• Proficiency with multiple programming languages, preferably Go, Java, Python or C/C++
• Ability to perform manual source code reviews in one of the aforementioned languages, or assisted review with code analysis tools such as CodeQL
• Experience navigating and working with extremely large codebases is also highly desirable

Experience using common security assessment tools and techniques

• Knowledge of common vulnerabilities in different types of software and programming languages, including:

How to test for/exploit them

Real world mitigations that can be applied

• Familiarity with vulnerability classification frameworks (e.g. OWASP Top 10, CVSS, MITRE CVE)

What We’ll Give You

• A team of very skilled and diverse personnel across the globe
• Ability to work in a flexible work from home arrangement
• Exposure to mind blowing large-scale cutting-edge systems
• The resources of a large, global operation while still having the small, start-up feel of a smaller team day to day
• Develop new skills and competencies working with our vast cloud product offerings
• Ongoing extensive training and skills development to further your career aspirations
• Incredible benefits and company perks
• An organisation filled with smart, enthusiastic, and motivated colleagues
• The opportunity to impact and improve our systems and delight our customers

Please note: This role does not require access to a cleared work environment. Security clearances are not required, and active clearances cannot be sponsored.

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 expert 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. Evaluates existing and proposed technical architectures for security risk, provides expert 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. Provides expert technical advice and direction to support the design and development of secure architectures. Maintain expert proficiency in emerging trends in information security. Determine the best practices for the large-scale Big Data infrastructure used by some Oracle LOBs, including tooling, data architecture, and content. May lead incident management teams and provide expert level incident management expertise. Coordinates incidents with other business units and may act as incident commander of multiple serious incidents. Leads development of new methods, playbooks and provide thought-leadership related to incident management throughout Oracle. May provide leadership in an incident management team, bringing expert-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 on multiple serious incidents. Leads development of new methods, and playbooks, as well as highly sophisticated scripts, applications, and tools. Trains and mentors other staff, and may supervise incident management teams. Brings expert-level skills to research, evaluate, track, and manage information security threats and vulnerabilities in situations where in-depth analysis of ambiguous information is required, but no computer programming/scripting knowledge is required. Leads development of highly sophisticated scripts, applications, and tools, and trains others in their use. Focus on operational and strategic level tasks, and provide counsel and guidance to the junior level security operations engineers in the department.

Minimum of 12 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). Expert level knowledge of: Cloud architecture and security principles. Risk Management Frameworks. *nix and Windows system administration. Experience with logging and log analysis. Preferred but not required qualifications include: Bachelor-level university degree in a relevant field from an accredited university, or equivalent. Expert level knowledge of web technologies, middleware, database, OS, firewalls, network communication protocols and methods. Knowledge of database security principles. Strong knowledge of encryption technologies and architectures. Experience with identity management principles and technology. Experience developing security architecture strategies that align to enterprise architecture strategy and the company's business strategy. Current CISSP, CISM, or the equivalent.