Okta Eng Ops Lead

Job#: 3032963

Job Description:

The Okta engineering operations lead is responsible for the day-to-day operational health and sustainment of the organization's Okta identity platform following production deployment by the engineering team. This role serves as the operational bridge between engineering delivery and the business, ensuring that Okta services remain stable, performant, and aligned with the end user and stakeholder needs on an ongoing basis. This includes ownership of the break/fix triage, service request fulfillment, access administration, incident response coordination, and operational monitoring across Okta managed services.

As AI capabilities are introduced into the identity platform, this role will be responsible for monitoring the behavior of automated and adaptive controls in production, escalating anomalies to the engineering team, and ensuring operational runbooks keep pace with the platform evolution.

Key Responsibilities

* Serve as the operational subject-matter expert across IAM services for both cloud and on-premises environments, including how the platforms integrate and impact end-to-end service delivery.

* Lead day-to-day operations for authentication and authorization services, ensuring availability, performance, stability, and a consistent user experience.

* Drive adoption of IAM reference architectures and operating standards by translating them into repeatable runbooks, procedures, and support models for existing and emerging IAM technologies.

* Champion practical, scalable operational solutions to complex, global IAM issues (e.g., onboarding/offboarding, access exceptions, federation failures, SSO outages, certificate expirations).

* Participate in IAM governance processes and ensure operational adherence to IAM standards, controls, and policy requirements.

* Build and maintain operational capabilities that support both near-term delivery and long-term sustainability (e.g., monitoring, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, patching/upgrade strategy).

* Create, maintain, and operationalize security policies, standards, and controls aligned with industry best practices and business needs-especially as cloud services and technologies are adopted.

* Represent Information Security on cross-functional project teams to ensure operational readiness (support model, SLAs/OLAs, documentation, monitoring, access controls) and compliance with existing security standards.

* Own the successful operational delivery of IAM services and security-related capabilities by partnering with business stakeholders, executives, engineering teams, and project teams; provide leadership through execution (this is not a project manager role).

* Manage and track IAM operational roadmaps (e.g., lifecycle management, decommissioning legacy platforms, resiliency improvements, automation backlog) and ensure they align to business priorities.

* Provide hands-on expertise for secure configuration, operational support, and troubleshooting of cross-organization identity integration and information-sharing implementations.

* Identify and remediate issues driven by process gaps, emerging threats, platform changes, or operational inefficiencies; drive continual service improvement and automation where feasible.

Analytical / Decision-Making Responsibilities

This role requires the ability to interpret IAM strategy and translate it into resilient, measurable, and supportable operations. The Ops Lead will make decisions that balance security, uptime, user experience, and delivery speed, and will influence the firm's IAM direction through operational insights, risk identification, and recommendations for service improvements.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience Requirements

* Strong background in information security fundamentals, with deep experience operating IAM services in enterprise environments.

* Experience supporting IAM implementations in Microsoft Azure and AWS (additional cloud providers a plus), including hybrid connectivity and integration to enterprise infrastructure.

* Working knowledge of IAM protocols and standards such as SAML, SCIM, OpenID Connect, OAuth (and familiarity with related standards such…