# Senior Solution Identity Specialist(Identity Governance)

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Bengaluru
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Solution Identity Specialist, you will be part of the presales team that delivers sales presentations and product demonstrations to educate customers on the best ways to implement Okta identity and access management solutions.

**Strategic Customer Engagement:**

- Support strategic customer conversations aligning with technical and engineering leaders and stakeholders.

- Deliver on emerging trends, industry best practices, and identity-driven digital transformation.

- Assist in preparing executive-level messaging and participate in strategic discussions to align Okta’s solutions with customer business outcomes.

- Develop customer-centric points of view that translate Okta’s solutions to customer problems.

- Lead technical discovery sessions with security and infrastructure leaders to uncover challenges related to endpoint security, passwordless adoption, and identity threat vectors.

- Deliver compelling, customized demonstrations and architectural sessions focused on Okta Device Access (including Okta FastPass, Desktop MFA) and our Identity Threat Protection capabilities.

- Design and execute outcome-focused Proof of Concepts (POCs) that prove Okta’s value in preventing account takeovers and securing access from any device.

**Asset Delivery:**

- Create and maintain reusable and purpose-built demonstration systems to be leveraged by all of presales.

- Create and maintain diagrams and documentation to support patterns and strategies.

- Build templates for proofs of concept and other unique customer engagement demands.

- Create and maintain AI-based delivery and enablement functionality.

**Technical Leadership:**

- Provide strategic and technical guidance to Solutions Engineering teams across both the Okta and Auth0 identity platforms.

- Collaborate with the Global Office of Field CTO office team to deliver actionable insights from the field, validate customer needs, and identify recurring trends for the Okta Product & Engineering teams.

- Deliver impactful keynote presentations, webinars, and technical sessions at industry and customer events.

**Field Enablement and Collaboration:**

- Contribute to frameworks, tools, and content to support Solutions Engineering teams in executing effectively.

- Partner with sales leadership to identify and address critical business opportunities and challenges.

- Drive cross-functional collaboration to ensure seamless execution of global initiatives.

- Innovate in tools and techniques to drive excellence and momentum.

**Market Influence:**

- Represent Okta as a thought leader in the identity and security space.

- Influence industry standards and participate in relevant technical advisory boards.

**Innovation and Strategy:**

- Partner closely with OFCTO teams as an advocate for customer-driven innovation, market trends, and GTM insights to provide input to influence product teams.

- Support, derive, and champion strategic initiatives that enhance Okta’s differentiation and business impact.

**Position Requirements:**

- Identity & Directory Services Mastery: Deep Infrastructure Knowledge, Multi-IdP Ecosystems, Hybrid Identity.

- Device Identity & Access Management Mastery: Passwordless Expertise, Endpoint & Device Context, PKI & Certificate Management.

- Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR): Threat Landscape Knowledge, Behavioral Analysis, Security Ecosystem Integration.

- Strong communication and presentation skills, with experience contributing to technical events.

- Travel expectation: up to 40% for customer meetings, industry events, and internal off-sites.

## Skills

### Required
- Active Directory (AD)
- Azure AD (Entra ID)
- Group Policy Objects (GPOs)
- Kerberos
- OIDC/SAML protocols
- Okta
- Ping Identity
- Google Workspace
- FIDO2/WebAuthn
- Passkeys
- Okta FastPass
- Desktop MFA
- MDM/UEM
- EDR
- PKI & Certificate Management
- User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
- SIEM
- SOAR

### Nice to have
- Okta's Threat Protection suite
- ITDR vendors
- device access solutions
- Certified Identity Professional (CIDPRO)
- CISSP
- CCSP
- CISM
- Python
- PowerShell

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