Security & Identity Architect

Organization Overview

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building the next generation of hyperscale cloud services. This organization sits within the Oracle CTO Office and is focused on solving some of the industry's most complex long-term challenges in cloud infrastructure.

Operating as a forward-looking research and architecture organization, the team is responsible for defining the next generation of core cloud platforms that will power OCI's future growth. Rather than making incremental improvements, this organization rethinks foundational architectural assumptions and drives high-impact initiatives that shape the evolution of OCI's infrastructure at hyperscale.

Architects within this organization function as highly autonomous, single-threaded technical leaders responsible for defining entirely new architectural domains, influencing engineering organizations without formal authority, and assembling cross-functional tiger teams to solve highly ambiguous platform-level challenges. This is an environment designed for engineers who embrace change, thrive in ambiguity, enjoy greenfield development, and are energized by solving some of the most challenging distributed systems problems in the cloud industry.

The Opportunity

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Security & Identity Architect to define the future architecture of OCI's Identity and Security Services platform. This role will lead the modernization of foundational services including Identity, Key Management Service (KMS), Secrets Management, and Certificate/PKI while establishing the architectural direction for identity in an AI-native cloud. Working within the Chief Technical Architect Office, you will partner directly with senior engineering leadership to redesign core security services for the next generation of hyperscale cloud infrastructure.

What You'll Do

• Define the long-term architectural vision for OCI's Identity and Security Services platform.
• Lead the redesign and modernization of Key Management Service (KMS), Identity, Secrets Management, and Certificate/PKI services.
• Architect highly available distributed security services that deliver scalability, resiliency, reliability, and operational efficiency at hyperscale.
• Establish architectural patterns for identity, authentication, authorization, key management, secrets management, and certificate lifecycle services.
• Drive the evolution of identity architectures to support AI-native workloads, autonomous agents, and emerging security models.
• Partner across Security, Compute, Storage, Product, and partner engineering organizations to define long-term technical strategy.
• Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams.
• Influence technical direction through architectural leadership rather than organizational authority.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders while raising architectural rigor across OCI.

• Partner with executive engineering leadership to shape OCI's long-term security platform strategy.

   

What We're Looking For

Successful candidates are technical leaders who thrive in highly ambiguous environments and enjoy defining the future of cloud security platforms.

• Have extensive experience architecting and operating large-scale identity, security, or cloud infrastructure platforms.
• Possess deep expertise in identity and access management (IAM), authentication, authorization, cryptographic services, or cloud security architectures.
• Demonstrate exceptional systems design skills and sound architectural judgment.
• Have experience designing distributed identity services, key management systems, secrets management platforms, certificate management, or security control planes.
• Have driven architectural improvements that increase scalability, resiliency, security, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Enjoy solving complex security and distributed systems problems that require long-term architectural thinking.
• Influence engineering organizations through technical credibility rather than positional authority.
• Have successfully led large, cross-functional technical initiatives spanning multiple organizations.
• Thrive in greenfield environments where requirements evolve and ambiguity is expected.
• Balance innovation with operational excellence, security, and long-term maintainability.
• Communicate effectively with senior engineers, architects, and executive leadership.