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Director Security Operations

Oracle

Job Description

Posted on: 
March 3, 2025

Summary and company overview

Description

We are looking for people with experience protecting critical infrastructure to help us protect Oracle’s enterprise against malicious attacks. Our team is skilled in threat hunting, analyzing indicators of compromise (IOCs), investigating adverse security events, security incident management, and digital forensics across IaaS, PaaS and SaaS environments. You will lead a global Security Operations Center organization responsible for defending this infrastructure from adversaries and insider threats. This includes using tools to analyze and respond to threats, creating tools/scripts to aid in analysis and response, and responding in real time to adverse security events. Our team is the last line of defense if security controls are breached. The scope of responsibility for team is continuing to grow with the needs of the business and we are constantly evolving our defenses as our adversaries evolve theirs. We’re building a future based on scaling through automation, proactive hunting, and rapid response. We’re finding new and innovative ways to operate at hyper-scale using cutting edge technologies. We’re looking for a leader that will take this function into the future.

The role

OCI Security Operations is looking for an accomplished leader to head our Global Security Operations Center charged with protecting Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure, Global Industry Units, Oracle Health, Government infrastructure (including Top Secret environments, and Oracle’s corporate network. As the leader of this team, you will drive SOC strategy, standards, and execution for protecting infrastructure that support billions of dollars in annual revenue. Your team will provide detection, triage, and investigation of all adverse security events. You will be responsible for 24x7x365 security operations of a global team with personnel on five continents.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the day-to-day delivery of multiple security monitoring teams and outcomes, including triage, escalations, proactive hunting, and tactical response
  • Adapt the team’s approach to security monitoring to ensure the team can scale as Oracle’s cloud footprint grows
  • Create consistent processes that work in a hybrid enterprise environment
  • Lead, mentor, and provide career development for a team of 100+ personnel
  • Develop and deliver long term strategies and roadmaps for security monitoring of our internal networks and security monitoring as a service for our customers
  • Lead the development of processes and procedures to improve system and service uptime, maintenance, and delivery
  • Stay informed on security developments, including research industry trends, ongoing security threats, and new security tools
  • Identify, improve, and measure meaningful security monitoring metrics, including defining and delivering against objectives and key results
  • Effectively communicate security concepts, asks, and wins with audiences consisting of both security experts and non-experts
  • Establish, grow, and maintain a supportive and collaborative team culture across distributed time zones
  • Develop hiring plans and strategic plans to attract, develop, and retain talent
  • Communicate effectively with customers, partners, and senior executives
  • Collaborate effectively with other Oracle security teams operating within a federated security environment

Job Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

  • 10+ years of management experience in cybersecurity operations at a cloud service provider
  • 5+ years of experience as a manager of mangers
  • Experience being accountable for an operational security function
  • Excellent written, verbal communications, and presentation skills
  • Proven ability to communicate with all levels of the organization, and with external parties
  • Experience managing various facets of Red/Blue exercises
  • Knowledge of current adversary TTP's and experience responding to APT attacks
  • Understanding of security incident response processes and technologies
  • Knowledge of security monitoring processes and technologies
  • Proven ability to work and collaborate in a geographically dispersed, highly matrixed organization
  • Extensive knowledge of forensic tools and capabilities
  • Experience coordinating threat hunt activities
  • Experience leading a distributed security organization with 75+ staff
  • Experience working on a security team of 100+ staff
  • Security Operations experience in an environment with highly regulated controls (Government, Military, Finance, etc)
  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Cyber Security, or equivalent experience

Additional commentary

Responsibilities

As a director of the software engineering division, you will apply your extensive knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications. Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and envision future improvements to the architecture.

Summary and company overview

Description

We are looking for people with experience protecting critical infrastructure to help us protect Oracle’s enterprise against malicious attacks. Our team is skilled in threat hunting, analyzing indicators of compromise (IOCs), investigating adverse security events, security incident management, and digital forensics across IaaS, PaaS and SaaS environments. You will lead a global Security Operations Center organization responsible for defending this infrastructure from adversaries and insider threats. This includes using tools to analyze and respond to threats, creating tools/scripts to aid in analysis and response, and responding in real time to adverse security events. Our team is the last line of defense if security controls are breached. The scope of responsibility for team is continuing to grow with the needs of the business and we are constantly evolving our defenses as our adversaries evolve theirs. We’re building a future based on scaling through automation, proactive hunting, and rapid response. We’re finding new and innovative ways to operate at hyper-scale using cutting edge technologies. We’re looking for a leader that will take this function into the future.

The role

OCI Security Operations is looking for an accomplished leader to head our Global Security Operations Center charged with protecting Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure, Global Industry Units, Oracle Health, Government infrastructure (including Top Secret environments, and Oracle’s corporate network. As the leader of this team, you will drive SOC strategy, standards, and execution for protecting infrastructure that support billions of dollars in annual revenue. Your team will provide detection, triage, and investigation of all adverse security events. You will be responsible for 24x7x365 security operations of a global team with personnel on five continents.

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