Staff Identity Governance and Access Engineer

Okta Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Bellevue, WAChicago, ILWashington, DC
Salary
$161,000–$221,000 / yr
Posted
52 days ago
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About Okta Inc

Okta, Inc. is an American identity and access management company based in San Francisco. It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, websites, web services, and devices.[

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TL;DR · Staff Identity Governance and Access Engineer

The Staff Identity Governance and Access Engineer joins the Identity Governance and Access Security team to manage IGA, PAM, and ISPM for the company as Customer Zero. In this senior individual-contributor role, you will take deep technical ownership of OIG, OPA, and ISPM implementations, setting technical direction and mentoring engineers. You will design and deploy automated birthright access rules, RBAC frameworks, and joiner/mover/leaver processes while driving Workday integration architecture. Key responsibilities include building Okta Workflows automation, managing privileged session access, and establishing telemetry for standing-privilege reduction. You must possess expertise in SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SCIM. The role solves complex identity lifecycle problems, ensuring secure access across enterprise systems while maintaining compliance in SOX and other audit-critical environments.

What you'll do

  • Own the end-to-end OIG architecture, including access request workflows and certification campaigns.
  • Lead the enterprise strategy for birthright provisioning, RBAC frameworks, and joiner/mover/leaver processes.
  • Drive Workday integration architecture to balance scheduled reconciliation with real-time attribute synchronization.
  • Design and harden automated mover/leaver processes to decommission stale access and re-evaluate group memberships.
  • Lead OPA, ISPM, and Zero Standing Privilege initiatives, including JIT elevation and break-glass access.
  • Establish and track telemetry and KPIs for privileged access, JIT adoption, and stale access cleanup.
  • Build and maintain Okta Workflows to automate access requests, approvals, and remediation processes.
  • Mentor engineers, review technical designs, and present risk assessments and roadmaps to executive stakeholders.

What we're looking for

  • Must have at least 4 years of direct experience managing and administering enterprise IGA, PAM, and ISPM tools.
  • Must have hands-on experience designing and deploying Birthright Provisioning models and RBAC architectures in production.
  • Must have production experience with OPA or equivalent PAM tooling, including Zero Standing Privilege and Just-In-Time access.
  • Must have production experience with ISPM tools that integrate with EDR solutions like Crowdstrike Falcon.
  • Must have a solid grounding in identity standards including SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SCIM.
  • Must have experience operating in SOX and compliance-critical environments with an understanding of audit evidence and segregation of duties.
  • Must be a U.S. person (citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual) and physically located on U.S. soil.
  • U.S. citizen as defined in 42 U.S. Code § 9102.

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