Oracle Key Vault team is a diverse group of highly talented people who are passionate about improving data security in general and securing key & secrets in particular. The proliferation of key & secrets in corporate IT and Cloud is making key & secrets management an arduous task for enterprises. Oracle Key Vault simplifies this task while ensuring security of keys and secrets.

Oracle Key Vault (OKV) provides continuously available, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable centralized key and secrets management for Oracle Database, MySQL, GoldenGate, ZFS storage appliance and engineered systems like Exadata, ZDLRA, etc. OKV is the preferred key management solution for Cloud databases like Exadata Cloud@Customer and Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer. Customers can deploy Key Vault in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and on-premises on dedicated hardware or virtual machines. 

Oracle Key Vault (OKV) is a full-stack, security hardened software appliance that manages TDE Master Keys, secrets like database passwords, certificates, public and private keys, Oracle wallets, Java keystores and credential files. An understanding of basic security principles of data encryption, network encryption, access control, etc. is necessary to secure the appliance. OKV developers design, build, maintain and extend a secure, scalable, distributed and continuously available appliance. Requirements include,

   Understanding of enterprise software development and full stack appliance    Understanding of software concepts for scalability and availability, distributed computing, memory management, multiprocessing, and multi-threading     Understanding of security concepts including cryptography, key management, authentication, and authorization and protocols like PKCS#11, KMIP, TLS    Understanding of the security vulnerabilities and familiarity with static analysis tools like Qualys and Fortify    Good understanding of the database, networking and OS concepts    Understanding of system software like openssl, ssh, Apache, Tomcat, Linux, Oracle Database    Proficiency in C and one or more of the following: Java, Python, javascript, shell scripting    Good working knowledge of debugging and profiling tools like gdb, valgrind    General interest in security     Good communicator, approachable and a team player
 

Career Level - IC4