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.