Security Architect - U.S. Public Sector

The Okta Security team’s mission is to strengthen Okta’s position as the leading Identity-as-a-Service solution through identifying and resolving risks to the employees, product, and most importantly, our customers. With the ever-increasing pace of cloud application adoption, companies are struggling to find ways to accurately assess risk and act at the speed of their business. 

The U.S. Public Sector Security Architect is a key member of the Okta Security Federal team and works across multiple functions to contribute perspectives in engineering, product, sales and marketing in support of the growth of our public sector business.

This position requires a strategic leader with strong collaboration skills, detailed working knowledge of identity and security requirements within the public sector, familiarity of working within a product company and a strong desire to exceed our customer’s security and compliance needs. 

This position will be located within the Washington DC metropolitan area

Responsibilities: 

• Be the point of contact and subject matter expert for all highly regulated Public Sector initiatives across the company
• Lead and define the technical vision for the highly regulated products and services
• Clearly define priorities and roadmaps for meeting highly regulated requirements
• Work with management, sales, CSM, and the rest of the GTM team to set expectations and validate communications
• Work across security, compliance and engineering to communicate requirements
• Work with security and compliance teams for vulnerability management, security standards, and compliance validation
• Review, validate, and update SSPs in coordination with GRC  and engineering teams
• Review all network and boundary compliance diagrams. Work with TechOps to keep diagrams updated
• Collaborate and partner with TPM on project planning, execution, problem resolution, obstacle removal, and status reports
• Define and collaborate with product engineering architects on new features for Okta's US Public Sector Compliance production infrastructure
• Review significant changes to the service and coordinate significant change requests with DISA/DoD and FedRAMP
• Work with Product and Engineering to ensure the platform can support US Public Sector use cases
• Assist the GRC team in to effectively conduct the CONMON process
• Build and implement agentic workflows to automate complex tasks
• Assist in supporting and maintaining the Okta Federal agentic infrastructure and business processes
• Represent Okta Security with IC and DoD Classified customers
• Bring clarity to design and solution discovery processes and guide teams on how to meet classified requirements
• Mentor and coach junior engineers to leverage their full potential

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent 
• 10+ years experience across either security, compliance or technology 
• Prior experience working within or supporting the US Public Sector 
• TS/SCI Clearance with Poly

Additional requirements:

• U.S. soil status - the employee must be on U.S. soil, which means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or outlying areas of the United States, as defined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101
• U.S. Security Clearance status - the employee must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance (Secret or Top Secret) to the extent required by U.S. Government contracts.

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