# Principal, Global Security Operations Center

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Washington, DC
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $138,000-$189,200 USD
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal, Global Security Operations Center to lead the operational deployment, optimization, and day-to-day leveraging of complex physical security technologies.

**Strategic GSOC Leadership** Assume full operational responsibility for the Global Security Operations Center, driving the transition from legacy systems and procedures to advanced, AI-integrated security frameworks.

**AI Integration & Optimization** Architect and deploy artificial intelligence and automation solutions to enhance threat intelligence, triage workflows, and operational efficiency across the GSOC program.

**Executive Incident Management** Serve as a key operational liaison, delivering high-level communication briefs and strategic incident summaries to executive leadership during critical security events.

**Vendor and Global Program Management** Provide oversight for multi-regional security operations, managing diverse global vendor teams and driving a unified, performance-driven culture across international markets.

**Operational Excellence & Compliance** Establish and monitor performance metrics (KPIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Ensure all physical security protocols and data logging maintain strict adherence to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance standards.

**Technological Oversight** Advise and optimize the deployment of critical physical security infrastructure, including advanced access control systems and video analytics, to ensure a hardened global security posture.

**Policy, SOPs, & Training Exercises** Review high-level global physical security and safety policy documents, translate them into actionable, team-wide standard operating procedures (SOPs), and conduct robust internal and external training exercises to ensure operational readiness.

**Cross-Functional Partnership** Act as an operational liaison between Workplace Security Operations and key partners during an emergency, including Business Technology, Real Estate, Travel, Legal, and external vendors.

**System Compliance & Investigations** Serve as the operational lead for complex security investigations. Oversee and ensure compliance for administrative system processes, including onboarding/termination access audits and automated reporting.

**Requirements**

- 8+ years of progressive experience in physical security operations, global systems integration, and GSOC leadership

- Demonstrated experience leading and managing large, diverse security teams from multiple third-party vendors across different global regions

- Strong background in vendor strategy, contract optimization, and managing large-scale service providers

- Excellent project management skills with a track record of successfully implementing and scaling physical security operations programs

- Demonstrated experience identifying, adapting, and developing AI use cases and automated tools

- Proven experience evaluating, deploying, and utilizing AI-driven physical security tools and advanced video analytics

- Advanced cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex operational requirements to executive leadership and non-technical stakeholders

## Skills

### Required
- Artificial Intelligence
- Automation
- Physical Security
- GSOC Leadership
- Vendor Management
- Project Management
- AI Integration
- Threat Intelligence
- Incident Management
- Compliance

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