Cloud Security Engineer, Specialist
About The Position
The Cloud Security Engineer designs and implements enterprise identity solutions using Okta Workforce Identity Cloud. The role leads application onboarding, identity integrations, automation, platform governance, and operational improvements across enterprise and cloud environments. It supports the security, resiliency, reliability, audit readiness, and operational effectiveness of identity platforms while partnering with cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, platform, and application teams. The position also provides technical leadership, influences architecture and platform roadmaps, and mentors engineers. Vanguard uses a hybrid working model for the majority of its crew members, combining flexibility with in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. Vanguard is offering visa sponsorship for this position.
Requirements
- Five or more 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 an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS.
- Strong experience with AWS services, including Lambda and Secrets Manager.
- Strong experience with SAML 2.0, OIDC/OAuth 2.0, SCIM APIs, and application sign-on policies and patterns.
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub-based delivery, and scripting.
- Strong experience with identity lifecycle management and federation design.
- Experience with Splunk/syslog analysis and troubleshooting complex authentication issues.
- Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and production support.
- Technical leadership and strategic thinking.
- Cross-functional collaboration and executive and stakeholder communication.
- Ability to drive outcomes through ambiguity.
- Incident leadership, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and production change leadership.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code.
- Okta Certified Professional certification.
- Knowledge of FastPass and Device Assurance.
- Knowledge of directory services.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement enterprise identity solutions leveraging Okta Workforce Identity Cloud services.
- Lead application onboarding using SAML, OIDC/OAuth, SCIM provisioning, federation, and lifecycle management.
- Ensure authentication, MFA, and access management patterns are followed while improving security and user experience.
- Partner with cloud and platform engineering teams to integrate identity controls across enterprise platforms and cloud environments.
- Develop automation using 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.
- Identify and implement platform engineering best practices, including GitHub-based CI/CD deployment models, testing strategies, release management, and configuration standardization.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and capabilities to improve scalability, reliability, security, and operational effectiveness.
- Support platform resiliency initiatives, including disaster recovery planning, service continuity testing, monitoring, observability, and operational readiness reviews.
- Participate in production support and critical incident response, and develop permanent engineering solutions to eliminate recurring operational issues.
- Lead root cause analysis and implement preventative controls to improve platform stability.
- Establish and maintain monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards that show 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.
- Lead complex initiatives across cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams.
- Influence architecture decisions, engineering standards, and platform roadmaps through technical expertise and stakeholder engagement.
- Mentor engineers, promote knowledge sharing, and strengthen team capabilities through coaching and technical guidance.
- Drive measurable improvements in automation, onboarding velocity, platform resiliency, audit readiness, and operational effectiveness.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
