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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
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Identity Security Engineer
We are looking for a highly experienced Identity Engineer to join the IAM Team within the Security organization at Okta. The IAM team owns, configures, and manages our internal workforce, customer, and federal instances of the Okta platform with the aim of showcasing them as the reference implementation for how identity challenges can and should be solved using Okta technology. In this role you will report to an IAM Security Manager and be on the forefront of developing capabilities for and supporting our GovCloud service. If you have a passion for using identity to empower and enable internal and external customers while working with new technology in a high-energy & supportive team, then this is the opportunity for you.
Responsibilities
Support Okta’s own implementation of Okta for our Federal/Public Sector workforce, commercial 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 projects to improve the maturity, user experience and capabilities of our Okta implementation based on business needs and stakeholder requirements
- Develop new solutions to workforce and customer identity business challenges and cross-train other team members
- Configuration and management of the Okta instance that supports our internal business needs, including policy management, app integration, and feature implementation to ensure compliance and security controls are met
- Partner with our Security Compliance organizations to improve Okta's Security posture
- Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure our internal operations teams can provide rapid support for environment and service availability issues
- Provide Level 3 support for Okta
- Create and maintain technical documentation for the team to reference and share with our internal customers
- Influence business stakeholders to adopt newly released identity management capabilities
- Support efforts to mature the IAM team’s processes, including configuration management, user lifecycle management, UX improvements, and opportunities for automation and self-service
Qualifications
- Solid experience implementing and/or supporting enterprise IAM solutions, experience with Okta technologies strongly preferred
- Working knowledge of general industry IAM concepts and best practices, particularly relating to SSO, MFA, IGA, CIAM and PAM
- Experience with RESTful APIs, scripting, SQL, Okta workflows, and other supporting technologies a plus
- Experience managing JAMF environments
- Basic knowledge of SDLC and agile methodologies
- 2+ years’ experience implementing and/or supporting enterprise IAM solutions preferred
- Experience working in FedRAMP environments preferred
- IT Security experience preferred
- Okta Professional preferred
Additional requirements:
- This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.
#LI-REMOTE
Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington is between:
$114,000—$172,000 USD
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:
$128,000—$192,000 USD
What you can look forward to as an Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
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Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.
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What We Do
Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
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