At Okta our motto is "Always On", and nowhere do we embrace that more than in Technical Operations. We strive to build the most reliable and performant systems on the planet through the skillful use of automation. If you like to be challenged and have a passion for solving security problems at scale with systemic automation, then we would love to hear from you. The ideal candidate is someone who exemplifies the ethics of, "If you have to do something more than once, automate it," and who can rapidly self-educate on new concepts and tools.

This is an exciting opportunity to build and lead our new Cloud Security SRE team, a critical part of our rapidly growing Infrastructure Security Engineering organization. As manager you'll be directly responsible for recruiting amazing talent and supporting them in delivering state-of-the-art automation for securing Okta's cloud infrastructure at scale. You'll partner with your fellow teams in the infrastructure security organization, as well as with central security, development engineering teams, technical operations, TPM, and QA.

The ideal candidate:

Has a track record of leading and managing high-performing technical teams while still being hands-on
Has deep production experience with securing and operating AWS cloud-based infrastructure and at least some exposure to other clouds (GCP or Azure)
Is passionate about solving for security and compliance through software and systems, enabling developer velocity, and minimizing manual toil as much as possible

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Build and mentor a talented, diverse, and distributed engineering team
Manage and own delivery of infrastructure security capabilities including:
Cloud security posture management
Access management lifecycle and governance
Automated monitoring and enforcement of Okta's security policies and regulatory compliance requirements
Partnership with Okta's security and GRC teams
Engage in technical design and discussions and also help drive technical architecture
Promote and apply best practices for building scalable and reliable services across engineering
Partner with recruiting to hire and retain world-class talent
Define team metrics and meet productivity goals of the organization
Continuously refine monitoring processes, thresholds, and configuration
Respond to issues and escalations and participate in a management on-call rotation

Minimum REQUIRED Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

5+ years of management experience
Experience leading teams of 15+ highly-skilled engineers
7+ years as a software, DevOps, or site reliability engineer working on enterprise or SaaS commercial software
Experience with Amazon Web Services and knowledge of AWS infrastructure and networking technologies - eg., EC2, ECS, EKS, ELB/ALB, VPC, etc.
Experience managing and operating large-scale, high-availability Linux host and containerized systems in production
Experience securing production services in AWS - eg., IAM roles, Security Groups, S3 Policies, KMS, Config, GuardDuty, SecurityHub, etc.
Deep understanding and familiarity with configuration management tools like Chef, Terraform and Ansible
Expertise in operational tooling languages such as Ruby, Python, Go and shell, and use of source control
Experience with industry-standard security tools like Nessus and OSQuery
Understand MySQL including replication and clustering strategies and are familiar with data stores such as DynamoDB, Redis, Cassandra and Elasticsearch
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Ability to work effectively with distributed teams and people of various backgrounds
BS/MS in computer science (or equivalent experience)

Preferred Skills

Experience with Identity and Access Management, Security, Data Protection, and Vulnerability Management
Experience influencing and deploying security standards and operating procedures for a large enterprise
Experience with Federal and DoD compliance requirements - FedRAMP, IL
Experience managing managers and teams of 20+
Experience working in an agile environment with matrixed teams
Shipping a large-scale projects with multiple cross team dependencies

((Colorado, New York and Washington only*) Minimum OTE of $178,000 /year + equity + benefits))

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Okta's Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our company's actions. They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency. It's our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies:

Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
Demonstrates Self-Awareness (EQ): Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals.
Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.

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