Okta Staff DevSecOps Engineer at Okta focusing on vulnerability management and security posture automation. Build centralized security posture analytics and reporting capabilities to improve visibility and accelerate remediation.
Responsibilities
Serve as a security subject matter expert (SME) for solution engineering and architecture reviews regarding the automation of vulnerability scanning and reporting.
Collaborate with SRE to manage update pipelines and enforce compliance with baseline standards.
Develop agentic automation to scale security posture scanning, reporting, issue remediation, and patch validation.
Lead technical efforts to evaluate, design, and implement new in house developed security systems and feature enhancements.
Build, maintain, and enhance custom automation and cloud infrastructure using Terraform or similar tools to support team or AI workflows and enforce security controls.
Develop integrations with APIs, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), and security infrastructure to improve vulnerability detection, response, and remediation.
Write and maintain scripts and automations, with an emphasis on Python-based solutions, to streamline security operations. Mastery in Python, Bash, or Go, alongside Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) for automated environment provisioning and security guardrails.
Establish monitoring and alerting for security posture, misconfigurations, and threats across endpoints, SaaS, and cloud workloads.
Proactively identify and remediate security gaps; stay updated on emerging threats, solutions, and tooling across the industry.
10+ years of experience in Security Engineering, DevSecOps, Infrastructure Security, or SaaS apps within a large corporate environment.
10+ years of strong coding and scripting experience, with a focus on building automation and custom tooling for security engineering teams.
Experience developing and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines for onboarding security data into Okta’s security data lake.
