Cloud Security Engineer, Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement enterprise identity solutions leveraging Okta Workforce Identity Cloud.
• Lead application onboarding using SAML, OIDC/OAuth, SCIM provisioning, federation, and lifecycle management.

• Define authentication, MFA, and access management patterns that improve security and user experience.

• Partner with cloud and platform engineering teams to integrate identity controls across enterprise platforms and cloud environments.
• Develop automation solutions using Okta APIs, scripting, workflows, and CI/CD pipelines to improve scalability and reduce manual effort.

• Automate operational processes, platform governance controls, application onboarding activities, and compliance reporting.

• Drive platform engineering best practices including GitHub-based CI/CD deployment models, testing strategies, release management, and configuration standardization.

• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and capabilities to improve scalability, reliability, security, and operational effectiveness.
• Own platform resiliency initiatives include disaster recovery planning, service continuity testing, monitoring, observability, and operational readiness reviews.

• Participate in production support and critical incident response while driving permanent engineering solutions that eliminate recurring operational issues.

• Lead root cause analysis activities and implement preventative controls to improve platform stability.

• Establish and maintain monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards that provide visibility into platform health and key performance indicators.
• Support audit readiness through controls, governance practices, documentation, and evidence management.

• Manage production changes, platform upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and operational support.

• Evaluate and adopt new capabilities that strengthen security, reliability, and efficiency.
• Serve as a technical leader and trusted advisor for enterprise identity and modern authentication services.

• Lead complex initiatives across cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams.

• Influence architecture decisions, engineering standards, and platform roadmaps through strong technical expertise and stakeholder engagement.

• Mentor engineers, promote knowledge sharing, and strengthen team capability through coaching and technical guidance.

• Drive measurable improvements in automation, onboarding velocity, platform resiliency, audit readiness, and operational effectiveness.
• Provides expert-level IT technical leadership that accelerates application onboarding through automation and engineering excellence.

• Improves platform reliability, resiliency, and security posture.

• Drives adoption of modern identity capabilities and best practices.

• Develop team capability through mentoring and technical leadership.

• Reduces operational risk while improving audit readiness and service quality.

• 10+ years of broad experience working on large-scale systems or services, Cloud Security Engineering, Identity Platform Engineering, Identity and Access Management or related disciplines.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Extensive hands-on experience with Okta Workforce Identity Cloud, AWS.

• Preferred At least 2 current Okta certifications (e.g., Okta Certified Professional, Administrator, Consultant, Developer)
• Expert level experience with:
  • SAML 2.0, OIDC/OAuth 2.0, SCIM
  • Okta APIs, MFA, Sign-On Policies/Patterns
  • Identity lifecycle management and federation design
  • CI/CD pipelines, GitHub-based development, delivery, and Python or similar scripting languages
  • Splunk/syslog analysis, ability to troubleshoot complex authentication issues
  • AWS services including Lambda and Secrets Manager
  • Incident management, root cause analysis, and production support
• Technical leadership and strategic thinking

• Mentoring and talent development

• Cross-functional collaboration

• Executive and stakeholder communication

• Driving outcomes through ambiguity

• Incident leadership and operational excellence

• Continuous improvement and production change leadership
• Preferred experience with Infrastructure as Code and Policy as Code e.g. Terraform

• Preferred experience with FastPass & Device Assurance

• Preferred experience with Directory services