Senior DevSecOps Engineer, Enterprise Data

Get to know Okta
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. 
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. 
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Data Engineering Team

Okta's Data Engineering team is focused on building platforms and capabilities that are utilized across the organization by sales, marketing, engineering, finance, product, and operations. The ideal candidate will have a strong engineering background with the ability to tie engineering initiatives to business impact. 

You will be part of a team doing detailed technical designs, development, and implementation of applications using cutting-edge technology stacks.

The Senior DevSecOps Engineer Opportunity

You’ll be an integral part of building and sustaining strong and effective relationships across Okta with our Engineering, Technical Operations, and Business Technology teams. As a Senior Data DevSecOps Engineer, you will act as a liaison between the Security organization and the Data & Insights team to design, build, secure and automate our infrastructure deployment processes.
This role requires travel to our San Francisco, CA or Chicago, IL office for in-person onboarding during the first week of employment. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.

What you’ll be doing 

• Build scalable and extensible platforms, services, and tools using Java, Python, Go, and other relevant technologies, with a focus on ensuring automation, reliability, and security across the AWS cloud environment.
• Work with data engineers to design and implement Secure Development Lifecycle practices into automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Strengthen Okta’s software supply chain security posture, including pipeline security, delivery tools, key and configuration management, and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation.
• Investigate vulnerability findings within the environment and coordinate remediation efforts in collaboration with other IT teams and subject matter experts.
• Ensure adherence to industry security standards (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001/27017/27018, NIST SP 800-53, and FedRAMP).
• Ensure application security tooling (DAST, SAST, SCA, credential scans) coverage in code repositories and deployment pipelines.

What you’ll bring to the role

• 5+ years of experience automating and deploying large-scale production services in AWS, ECS, and EKS.
• 5+ years of experience managing CI/CD infrastructures, with strong proficiency in tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitLab, or any CI/CD tool to streamline deployment pipelines and ensure efficient software delivery.
• 5+ years of experience with Python, Go, or similar backend languages.
• Strong experience in security practices, AWS network engineering, and familiarity with configuration management tools like Chef and Terraform.
• Proven record of designing automated systems that secure the software supply chain and SDLC systems.
• Experience in designing, building, and managing complex deployment pipelines.
• Security certifications from ISC(2), GIAC, SANS, etc., are a plus.

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.

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta 

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, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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