Compensation Overview

Okta is looking for an Identity Security Engineer to join the IAM Team within the Security organization at Okta. The IAM team owns, configures, and manages our internal workforce and customer instances of the Okta platform, and works to make them the reference implementations of the Okta identity platform.

This Security Engineer will bring their expertise in developing and implementing identity solutions that solve complex business challenges from a Core Engineering Perspective. If you have a passion for using identity to empower and enable business while working with new technology in a high-energy environment.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:   

• Own the security posture of Okta by leveraging Identity as a foundation to Security
• Support Okta’s own implementation of Okta for its own workforce and customer identity use cases, and constantly find opportunities for improvement so our own implementation is the reference implementation of Okta technology
• Contribute to and lead projects to constantly improve the maturity, user experience and capabilities of our Okta implementation based on business needs and stakeholder requirements
• Help conceptualize, design, and implement identity governance and privileged access management solutions using Okta technologies
• Configuration and management of the Okta instance that supports our internal business needs, including policy management, app integration, and feature implementation
• Partner with our Product and Engineering organizations to beta test Early Access features and help them improve our product by providing high-quality feedback from our perspective as a customer
• Learn and develop new solutions to challenging workforce and customer identity business challenges, and support and cross-develop other team members with that knowledge
• Provide Level 3 support for longstanding IT Support requests where a resolution has not been found/implemented/determined to not be in line with Okta’s long term strategies
• Create and maintain technical documentation for both the team to reference and to share with our own internal customers
• Bring your creativity and passion to maturing the IAM team’s own processes, including configuration management, user lifecycle management, UX improvements, etc., especially opportunities for automation and self-service

NOTE:  there is an on-call rotation for tier 3 level support required

Desired qualifications:

• Strong experience implementing and/or supporting enterprise IAM solutions
• Strong experience in the security domain
• Experience with the Okta platform strongly preferred
• Knowledge of general industry IAM concepts and best-practices, particularly relating to SSO, MFA, IGA, and PAM
• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks such as NIST/FedRamp, SOX, SOC, ISO, SOC2, PCI, ZeroTrust, SaaS Security Framework, Data Security Foundations, etc.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, scripting, SQL, and other supporting technologies
• Basic knowledge of SDLC and agile methodologies
• Practical software development experience a plus

Education/Training:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Okta, CIDPro, ISC2, or other security certifications preferred

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