Senior Security Engineer

Oracle's Senior Security Engineer role in Reston, VA onsite focuses on security monitoring, incident response, compliance, business continuity, data security, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Designs and conducts comprehensive security evaluations across multiple products and services to uncover vulnerabilities.
• Develops testing utilities to enable engineering teams to detect security weaknesses.
• Reviews security architecture and offers actionable recommendations to enhance protections.
• Contributes to analyzing and reviewing security alerts.
• Identifies advanced security violations and escalates to senior staff.
• Adheres to incident response protocols to contain and mitigate events.
• Participates in post-event debriefs to identify improvement opportunities.
• Supports compliance assessments to detect gaps and verify adherence to internal and external obligations.
• Reviews compliance deliverables to confirm alignment with policies and applicable standards.
• Implements controls and processes to meet internal and external obligations, collaborating with stakeholders.
• Maintains security-focused inventory records and related systems.
• Contributes to shaping business continuity and disaster recovery plans, processes, and procedures.
• Ensures execution of business continuity plans to support critical systems and data during disruptions.
• Participates in readiness assessments for certifications or audits to pinpoint improvement areas.
• Offers security best practices for data protection using encryption, hashing, masking, and access management to protect confidentiality and integrity.
• Reviews documentation and procedures to uncover opportunities to strengthen data security practices.
• Demonstrates advanced industry security knowledge and pursues ongoing learning through self-study and training.
• Keeps abreast of emerging trends to anticipate evolving threats and vulnerabilities.
• Explores innovative techniques to address unique security challenges.
• Manages projects independently, tracking timelines and deliverables, prioritizing work, and adjusting resource or schedule needs to keep initiatives on track.
• Collaborates across teams to align goals, cultivate stakeholder partnerships, and gather diverse perspectives to ensure shared understanding.
• Independently troubleshoots standard and non-standard issues per established practices, escalating complex problems as needed, while analyzing data from multiple sources and sharing knowledge.
• Pursues ongoing learning and skill development, leveraging feedback and training to improve, and contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing.
• Develops ideas to improve team processes and workflows, and seeks input from colleagues on alternative approaches.