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We are looking for a Senior Identity Security Engineer to join the Security IAM team at Okta to contribute to the excellence of our Identity Governance and Administration function. The Security IAM team owns, configures, and manages our internal workforce and customer instances of the Okta platform to make them the reference implementations of the Okta identity platform. In this role you will be at the forefront of delivering Identity as a Service (IDaaS) solutions which not only secure our environment but also showcase the power of our platform. As a Senior Identity Security Engineer you will bring your expertise in developing and implementing identity solutions that solve complex business challenges to deliver impactful value. The immediate focus of this role will be on identity governance and administration capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- Solving secure identity problems in our own environment. We strive to be our own best customer, implementing best-in-class secure identity solutions.
- Conceptualizing, designing, implementing and documenting identity governance solutions.
- Configuration and management of our Okta instance to support our existing and developing business needs including: policy management; app integration; and feature implementation.
- Supporting the development of more junior members of the team: pair-working, reviewing work, sharing feedback and modeling best practices.
- Troubleshooting and solutioning when things go wrong with our existing access management infrastructure.
- Participating and contributing to our team meetings and engaging with our efforts to improve our ways of working in the IAM engineering team.
- Providing Level 3 support for internal issues and requests.
Qualifications:
- 3+ years experience implementing and/or supporting enterprise IAM solutions.
- Passion for identity and access management and proven familiarity with related disciplines and concepts such as: ILM, IGA, RBAC, ABAC, SSO, MFA.
- Proven ability to develop solutions that make sense; are modular and reusable; reduce effort and complexity; and follow agreed standards and patterns.
- Enjoy working within a team structure where you are supported to do your best work and encouraged to express your hard-earned industry knowledge.
- Personality to interface with our internal customers and take them along on our journey of identity security and enablement.
- Experience with RESTful APIs, scripting, SQL and other supporting technologies.
- Demonstrated knowledge of working within SDLC and agile methodologies.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Have working knowledge or security and compliance frameworks such as NIST, SOX, ISO 27001 etc.
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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, 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/can.
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:
$114,000—$172,000 CAD
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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.
