10+ years of professional experience in IT/Identity and Access Management or a related field.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
Strong communication skills to clearly convey business and technical information to diverse audiences.
Requirements:
Provide SME guidance to IT partners on configuring, debugging, and deploying Okta IAM integrations; identify opportunities to optimize the IAM environment and apply DevSecOps principles to automate tasks across the access infrastructure.
Lead planning and scoping of IT and security initiatives; develop policies, procedures, runbooks, and documentation; supervise data collection and analyses to define needs and recommend solutions.
Perform hands-on Okta administration and operations, including MFA/SSO integrations, AD/Azure AD/Radius integration with Okta, Okta Agents installation/maintenance, user provisioning, periodic reporting, release risk assessment and mitigation, vulnerability remediation, and security monitoring through system logs and Splunk integration.
Job description
Job Title: SME Consultant Sr. (Okta)
Location: Washington, DC/Remote
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Description:
Our client is seeking a Consultant SME Senior to provide guidance to IT partners on configuration, debugging, and deployment of tools requiring Identity and Access Management (IAM) integration. Identify opportunities to optimize the IAM environment and provide recommendations for improvements. Apply DevSecOps principles to automate tasks across access infrastructure. Assist with developing policies and procedures for supporting applications. Assist with planning and scoping of IT and Security initiatives.
This individual also provides detailed analysis, evaluation and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission critical challenges/issues; and consults with client to define needs or challenges; while also supervising studies: leading surveys and performing data collection for analyses used to advise and recommend/suggest solutions.
Requirements:
• Perform Multi Factor Authentication/Single Sign-On integrations for applications and management tasks using Okta.
• Integrate Active Directory, Azure AD, Radius Server, and other similar IDP/Authenticator integrations with Okta.
• Install, maintain, and upgrade the various types of Okta Agents, their host servers and service accounts.
• Perform customer T2/T3 support activities including assessment of user experience scenarios and identifying resolutions to unique user access issues for Okta integrated applications.
• Provide Periodic and custom ad hoc reporting using Okta.
• Perform assessment of the Features/Enhancements from the monthly Okta Production Release for impact to current systems and implement mitigation actions as required.
• Perform assessment of Continuous Monitoring Scan reports and implement remediations of the vulnerabilities identified.
• Perform manual user, application, and role provisioning tasks within Okta through administrator access.
• Perform EAMS system validations post infrastructure and OS maintenance activities and or network outages.
• Generate and maintain the Runbooks and other documentation for Projects and operations.
• Perform periodic review of the User and Administrator activities from Okta System log reports as part of security monitoring.
• Perform review and enhancements to the Splunk integration with Okta.
• Perform review and enhancements of the EAMS registration and access roles within ARIS.
Required Skills:
• 10+ years of experience in a professional capacity and a bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Ability to clearly communicate both business and technical terms and information/requirements/instructions to a wide variety of audiences (face-to-face, teleconference, phone, and email)
