Senior Principal Offensive Security Engineer

Oracle
Austin, United States of America
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Belfast, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Java
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Software System Penetration Testing
Authentication Protocols
Azure
C++
Cloud Computing
Communications Protocols
Computer Security
Continuous Integration
Linux
Distributed Systems
DOS
Dynamic Program Analysis
Fuzz Testing
Hardware Security Module
Python
Oracle Applications
Ruby
Reverse Engineering
Software Security
Information Technology
Operational Systems
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Go
Programming Languages
Microservices

Job description

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Offensive Security team provides OCI with the capabilities to ensure our systems and services meet the security objectives we communicate to customers. The Offensive Security group performs security assessments, vulnerability research, static and dynamic analysis research, penetration testing, red-teaming, and security tool development. We ensure the security of the software and hardware that runs our cloud infrastructure and strive for continuous improvement. The OCI Offensive Security group works as a team. We don't fit people into predefined roles. We bring together the right people who enhance team capability and build roles around each team member's skills and interests., * You enjoy diving into complex source code audits to reveal subtle security vulnerabilities

  • Writing new tools such as fuzzers in languages such as C/C++, Python, Ruby, Go or Java,
  • Tearing apart an undocumented file format or network protocol
  • Coming up with novel techniques to solve unique and interesting security problems
  • Review new services, including their integration points with existing services
  • Guide security projects beyond the scope of performing assessment work
  • Identify and disclose vulnerabilities to 3rd party vendors
  • Design complex systems and services that improve quantity or quality of offensive security output
  • You'll reviews new features of moderate complexity in existing systems, identifying areas of new risk created; work with service teams to explore and recommend mitigations; and collaborate across service teams and security stakeholders.
  • Review new services, including their integration points with existing services
  • Guide security projects beyond the scope of performing assessment work: identifying and disclosing vulnerabilities to 3rd party vendor or design of complex systems and services that improve quantity or quality of offensive security output
  • You'll drive organization wide improvement in the form of engineering practices, security architecture, operation practices or development practices.
  • You'll reviews new services and their integration points with other services; guides security assessments of our most complex or important products, and is independently capable of balancing business and security risk; and apply your expertise in business-critical security area to advance the business relative to the industry.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in vulnerability discovery / security engineering / application security
  • Threat modeling experience of microservice architectures
  • Experience working in a large cloud or software company
  • Extensive research or experience with multiple classes of security bugs
  • Evidence of contribution to the security community in the form of conducting training / thought leadership / conference talks / publications
  • Improve security throughout the organization, identifying areas of risk or opportunities for improvement and piloting them
  • Be a subject matter expert in at least one business-critical area (e.g. cryptography, hardware security, operating systems, authentication protocols, fuzzing, DoS mitigation, networks, distributed systems)
  • Collaborative track record working between internal teams and external organizations
  • Excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills
  • Intermediate knowledge of Linux OS Internals
  • Advanced knowledge of one programming language and ability to read two high level programming language such as Java, * Undergraduate or Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or another related field or equivalent work experience.
  • Hands-on experience developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle)
  • Building continuous integration/deployment pipelines with robust testing and deployment schedules
  • Experience working with internal customers and translating requests into prioritized work or features
  • Expertise in applying risk identification techniques to develop security solutions
  • Experience and understanding of Cryptographic algorithms, standards, implementation and application
  • Experience and understanding of threat modeling, penetration testing, reverse engineering and attacks on software
  • Experience working with large enterprise customers

About the company

 Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.

Our mission is to help people see data in new ways, discover insights, unlock endless possibilities.

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