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# Principal Security Engineer

- **Company:** Oracle
- **Location:** Topeka, KS, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Firmware, Hardware Platform Interface, Hardware Security Module, Oracle (Applications), Cloud Services, Information Technology, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- **Published:** July 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.kansasworks.com/jobs/13604055

## About the Role

+ Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience

 + 8-10+ years of experience in hardware security architecture / engineering / validation / planning or related area

 + Demonstrated competency in hardware/firmware with a focus on security

## Description

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world's biggest challenges.

As a Principal Hardware Security Engineer you will be involved in ensuring that the compute hardware that is used in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure meets the security bar to ensure compliance with our security posture. You will be get an opportunity to define security requirements for hardware ensuring hardware does not preclude inclusion of security controls essential to meet or exceed our posture. You will work closely across Oracle, with third party vendors, and with standards organization to influence the next generation of hardware platform security. You will also works closely with OCI's operations and engineering teams, constantly striving to improve Oracle Cloud's overall operational security posture by defining the supply chain and operational requirements to establish best practices for managing security for devices in our cloud infrastructure.

Our principal hardware security engineers have a blend of hardware, firmware and security skills.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

 + Definition of security requirements for hardware enabling OCI security posture aligning business needs and technology trends

 + Provide independent design consulting in area of expertise to implement:

 + requirements specified by the hardware security team

 + features required to achieve security bar

 + operations (provisioning, re-use, decommissioning) inline with security posture

 + Hands on

 + security assessments of compute devices to ensure device meets requirements.

 + adversarial assessments of compute devices to ensure they can't be compromised.

 + Assess risk from findings and threat models and identify proper risk mitigation controls

 + Work across to teams to ensure requirements, findings and recommendations are implemented

 + Mentor junior engineers


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