Senior Security Engineer
Job Description
Own security outcomes across products and services as a Senior Security Engineer at Oracle in Reston, VA. This onsite role (5 days a week) focuses on building security testing capabilities, strengthening security designs, supporting incident response activities, and helping drive compliance readiness. If you hold an active security clearance and want to apply deep security judgment using practical controls like encryption, hashing, masking, and access management, this position gives you clear ownership from assessment to improvement.
What you’ll do
- Plan and perform in-depth security assessments across a variety of products and services to identify potential vulnerabilities.
- Create testing tools that help engineering teams uncover security-related weaknesses.
- Conduct security design and provide recommendations and guidance to improve security posture.
- Participate in reviews of security alerts and support resolution by escalating complex violations to senior team members.
- Follow established protocols to take actions needed to contain and mitigate security events.
- Contribute to post-event reviews to identify improvement opportunities.
- Support compliance assessments by identifying gaps and ensuring adherence to internal and external obligations.
- Review security compliance deliverables and ensure alignment with policies and industry standards.
- Implement measures to maintain compliance, collaborating with relevant stakeholders.
- Maintain security-focused inventory systems.
- Contribute to business continuity and disaster recovery planning, including development of plans, processes, and procedures, and help ensure execution to protect critical systems and data during disruptions.
- Participate in readiness assessments for certification and/or audit, identifying areas for improvement.
- Apply data security best judgment and recommend secure practices to support confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information using tools and techniques such as encryption, hashing, masking, and access management.
- Review documentation and procedures to identify opportunities to strengthen data security practices.
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of industry security practices, expanding capability through self-study and training.
- Stay current on emerging threats and vulnerabilities and explore novel techniques to address unique security problems.
How you’ll work
- Planning & execution: Independently manage work by monitoring timelines and deliverables to keep initiatives on track and adjust priorities when resources or timelines shift.
- Collaboration & partnership: Coordinate with cross-functional teams to align on expectations, understand stakeholder and customer needs, and build effective partnerships.
- Problem solving: Identify and address standard and non-standard issues using established practices, escalating more complex items as appropriate.
- Continuous learning: Seek new skills and tools, leverage feedback and training, and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing.
- Continuous improvement: Propose updates to improve efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows, including gathering input on alternative approaches.
Requirements
- Security Clearance required
- Onsite 5 days per week in Reston, VA
Security technologies
- Encryption
- Hashing
- Masking
- Access management
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