3 days ago
Dallas, TX, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, maintain, and improve enterprise-scale Okta Workforce Identity solutions.
- Lead application onboarding and integrations using SAML, OIDC/OAuth, SCIM, federation, lifecycle management, and authentication technologies.
- Develop automation for operational processes, governance controls, application onboarding, and compliance reporting using APIs, scripting, workflows, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment pipelines.
- Own resiliency initiatives including disaster recovery planning, service continuity testing, monitoring, observability, and operational readiness reviews.
- Participate in production support and critical incident response, lead root cause analysis, and implement preventative engineering controls.
- Implement authentication, authorization, access management, governance, audit, vulnerability remediation, policy modernization, and threat detection capabilities.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, influence architecture and engineering standards, and collaborate with stakeholders, vendors, and cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience with large-scale systems or services, cloud security engineering, identity platform engineering, identity and access management, or related disciplines.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Extensive hands-on experience with Okta Workforce Identity Cloud.
- At least two current Okta certifications, such as Okta Certified Professional, Administrator, Consultant, or Developer.
- Expertise with SAML 2.0, OIDC/OAuth 2.0, SCIM provisioning, Okta APIs, MFA, Adaptive Authentication, FastPass, Device Assurance, sign-on policies, FIDO2, Okta Verify, identity lifecycle management, federation design, application onboarding, troubleshooting, and directory services.
- Strong experience with GitHub-based development, Terraform or OpenTofu, Python or PowerShell scripting, AWS services, Okta Workflows, Splunk, log analysis, change management, and production support.
- Experience managing major incidents, root cause analysis, operational readiness, complex authentication and provisioning issues, technical documentation, standards, procedures, and operational runbooks.
- Experience or knowledge in identity threat protection, behavior detection, risk signals, Okta AI, agentic AI, event-driven architectures, identity governance, disaster recovery, backup and recovery, audit and compliance frameworks, cloud security controls, secrets management, PKI, certificate management, and security monitoring.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model designed to provide flexibility alongside in-person learning, collaboration, and connection.
About Vanguard
Vanguard is an investment management company offering low-cost index and active mutual funds, ETFs, brokerage, retirement plans, and financial advice for individual, institutional, and advisor clients. Founded in 1975 by John C. Bogle and headquartered in Valley Forge, PA, it operates a client-owned structure in which its funds own the firm. Its business model centers on asset-based management and advisory fees.