OCI Security and Infrastructure Consultant

Overview

The Fountain Group is currently seeking an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Security and Infrastructure Consultant for a prominent client. This is a 100% remote role.

Pay Rate Range – $65 – $77/hr on W2

6 months assignment with HIGH possibility of extension

• Configure and maintain Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) infrastructure components including compute, networking (VCNs, subnets, gateways), storage, and load balancers.
• Design, deploy, and maintain multi-cloud networking (Egress and Workload VCNs, firewall/NAT gateways, AWS transit), enforcing traffic control policies.
• Implement and manage OCI Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, compartments, dynamic groups, and federation.
• Harden OCI infrastructure according to CIS Benchmarks and cloud security best practices.
• Apply security patches and manage updates across OCI-hosted applications and services.
• Design and operate an end-to-end monitoring, alerting, and reliability stack (Datadog, OCI Metrics, Pager Duty) with SLO/SLA tracking and cost optimization.
• Monitor and respond to security alerts and events from OCI tools like Cloud Guard, Logging, and Security Zones.
• Build and maintain an Infrastructure as Code pipeline:
  Terraform Cloud for resource provisioning, Git Hub for source control, Git Hub Actions for CI/CD.
• Orchestrate configuration and patch management at scale with Ansible Automation Platform.
• Configure and maintain backup, disaster recovery, and high availability setups within the OCI environment.
• Collaborate with developers, integration engineers, finance, and security stakeholders to improve reliability and expand OCI capabilities.

• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity or related engineering roles.
• 3+ years hands-on experience specifically with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Recent OCI experience preferred.
• Experience working with security tools like Teleport, Crowd Strike EDR, Tenable, SIEM, etc.
• Strong understanding of OCI networking, IAM, compartments, security lists, and resource management.
• Experience with OCI-native security services (e.g., Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Logging, Vault).
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform preferred).
• Experience in Ansible Automation Platform or other configuration management tooling.
• Solid understanding of security best practices, including least privilege access, encryption, system hardening, vulnerability management and key management.
• Familiarity with compliance requirements (ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA) as they apply to OCI.
• Experience supporting production-grade workloads in a cloud environment.
• Scripting knowledge (e.g., Bash, Python) for automation and monitoring.

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