Cloud Security Engineer, Specialist — Philadelphia

Responsibilities : • Design and implement enterprise identity solutions leveraging Okta Workforce Identity Cloud. • Lead application onboarding using SAML, OIDC/OAuth, SCIM provisioning, federation, and lifecycle management. • Define authentication, MFA, and access management patterns that improve security and user experience. • Partner with cloud and platform engineering teams to integrate identity controls across enterprise platforms and cloud environments. • Develop automation solutions using Okta APIs, scripting, workflows, and CI/CD pipelines to improve scalability and reduce manual effort. • Automate operational processes, platform governance controls, application onboarding activities, and compliance reporting. • Drive platform engineering best practices including GitHub-based CI/CD deployment models, testing strategies, release management, and configuration standardization. • Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and capabilities to improve scalability, reliability, security, and operational effectiveness. • Own platform resiliency initiatives include disaster recovery planning, service continuity testing, monitoring, observability, and operational readiness reviews. • Participate in production support and critical incident response while driving permanent engineering solutions that eliminate recurring operational issues. • Lead root cause analysis activities and implement preventative controls to improve platform stability. • Establish and maintain monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards that provide visibility into platform health and key performance indicators. • Support audit readiness through controls, governance practices, documentation, and evidence management. • Manage production changes, platform upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and operational support. • Evaluate and adopt new capabilities that strengthen security, reliability, and efficiency. • Serve as a technical leader and trusted advisor for enterprise identity and modern authentication services. • Lead complex initiatives across cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams. • Influence architecture decisions, engineering standards, and platform roadmaps through strong technical expertise and stakeholder engagement. • Mentor engineers, promote knowledge sharing, and strengthen team capability through coaching and technical guidance. • Drive measurable improvements in automation, onboarding velocity, platform resiliency, audit readiness, and operational effectiveness. • Provides expert-level IT technical leadership that accelerates application onboarding through automation and engineering excellence. • Improves platform reliability, resiliency, and security posture. • Drives adoption of modern identity capabilities and best practices. • Develop team capability through mentoring and technical leadership. • Reduces operational risk while improving audit readiness and service quality. Qualifications: • 10+ years of broad experience working on large-scale systems or services, Cloud Security Engineering, Identity Platform Engineering, Identity and Access Management or related disciplines. • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. • Extensive hands-on experience with Okta Workforce Identity Cloud, AWS. • Preferred At least 2 current Okta certifications (e.g., Okta Certified Professional, Administrator, Consultant, Developer) • Expert level experience with: • SAML 2.0, OIDC/OAuth 2.0, SCIM • Okta APIs, MFA, Sign-On Policies/Patterns • Identity lifecycle management and federation design • CI/CD pipelines, GitHub-based development, delivery, and Python or similar scripting languages • Splunk/syslog analysis, ability to troubleshoot complex authentication issues • AWS services including Lambda and Secrets Manager • Incident management, root cause analysis, and production support • Technical leadership and strategic thinking • Mentoring and talent development • Cross-functional collaboration • Executive and stakeholder communication • Driving outcomes through ambiguity • Incident leadership and operational excellence • Continuous improvement and production change leadership • Preferred experience with Infrastructure as Code and Policy as Code e.g. Terraform • Preferred experience with FastPass & Device Assurance • Preferred experience with Directory services Special Factors Sponsorship Vanguard is offering visa sponsorship for this position. 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