# Security Architect - U.S. Public Sector

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Washington, DC, DC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $216,000-$297,000 USD
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Okta is seeking a Security Architect for its U.S. Public Sector team based in Washington, DC.

The successful candidate will be a key member of Okta's Security Federal team, contributing to various functions such as engineering, product, sales, and marketing to support the growth of the public sector business.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as the point of contact and subject matter expert for highly regulated Public Sector initiatives across the company

- Lead and define the technical vision for highly regulated products and services

- Clearly define priorities and roadmaps for meeting highly regulated requirements

- Collaborate 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

- Partner 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 network and boundary compliance diagrams, working with TechOps to keep them updated

- Collaborate 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

- Ensure the platform supports US Public Sector use cases

- Assist the GRC team in conducting the CONMON process

- Implement agentic workflows to automate complex tasks

- Support and maintain the Okta Federal agentic infrastructure and business processes

- Represent Okta Security with IC and DoD Classified customers

- Guide teams on meeting classified requirements

- Mentor and coach junior engineers

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

- 10+ years of experience in security, compliance, or technology

- Prior experience working within or supporting the US Public Sector

- TS/SCI Clearance with Poly

- U.S. soil status and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

The annual base salary range for this position is $216,000-$297,000 USD.

Okta offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave.

## Skills

### Required
- identity and access management
- security architecture
- compliance
- vulnerability management
- security standards

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