Principal IT Security Architect

RingCentral•Belmont, CA

4d•$184,600 - $225,100•Onsite

About The Position

RingCentral IT is hiring a deeply technical Principal Security Architect to determine whether our enterprise, cloud, identity, network, application, and data controls will withstand a capable modern attacker—and to prove it with evidence. This is not a governance-only or advisory role. You will live inside the admin consoles of Okta, Zscaler, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365, reconstruct how our environment and security tools are configured, challenge inherited assumptions and exceptions, identify exploitable attack paths, and personally architect, prototype, automate, and drive durable fixes into production. You will combine an adversary’s mindset with disciplined defensive engineering. You should think in attack paths and blast radius rather than control checklists, and be equally comfortable running a token-theft or consent-phishing simulation against our own tenants and then writing the Conditional Access policy, Okta authentication policy, or Drive sharing restriction that kills it.

Requirements

10+ years in security engineering or architecture, a substantial portion of it hands-on-keyboard in production. Certifications do not substitute for demonstrated configuration depth.
Expert-level, in-console administration of Okta — you can explain policy evaluation order, the difference between a global session policy and an app authentication policy, and how you would detect a maliciously created app integration.
Production experience administering Zscaler ZIA and ZPA, including the operational tradeoffs of SSL inspection, bypass exceptions, and least-privilege application segmentation.
Deep working knowledge of both Google Workspace Admin and Microsoft 365 / Entra ID administration — specifically the sharing, external-collaboration, OAuth app-consent, and DLP surfaces.
Demonstrated offensive capability against identity and SaaS environments. You have found real, exploitable misconfigurations, not just reported scanner output. Comfort with tooling such as BloodHound / AzureHound, ROADrecon, GraphRunner, and Burp Suite.
Fluency in SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SCIM — and the specific ways each is abused. Working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, including the cloud and SaaS matrices.
Automation ability: Python or PowerShell against the Okta, Microsoft Graph, Google Admin SDK, and Zscaler APIs. This role is not survivable by clicking through consoles alone.
The judgment to push a change through change control, quantify user-experience impact, and defend the decision to a skeptical business owner. You will be told “that will break workflows.” You need to be right, and you need to bring the data.

Nice To Haves

OSCP, GPEN, GCPN, GWAPT, or CRTO; Okta Certified Administrator or Consultant; Zscaler ZIA/ZPA certification. CISSP or CCSP is welcome but is not what we are screening for.
Experience deploying an SSPM or CASB platform (Obsidian, AppOmni, Netskope, Defender for Cloud Apps) to automate posture review at scale.
Experience securing AI and agentic tooling: OAuth scopes granted to AI assistants, data-access boundaries, and enterprise copilot / agent deployments.
Detection engineering against identity telemetry in a SIEM (Splunk, Sentinel, or equivalent), and prior work in a SOX or SOC 2 audited environment.

Responsibilities

Identity as the security perimeter (Okta). End-to-end review and hardening of our Okta tenant: global session and app-level authentication policies, MFA factor strength and phishing-resistant enrollment (FastPass / WebAuthn), device trust, admin role delegation and standing-privilege reduction, API token and service-app scope hygiene, SCIM lifecycle provisioning and — critically — deprovisioning, Okta Workflows, ThreatInsight, and System Log streaming into our SIEM. You will hunt shadow admins, orphaned integrations, over-scoped OAuth grants, and legacy authentication paths.
Zero trust network access (Zscaler). Architecture and configuration review across ZIA and ZPA: SSL inspection coverage and the bypass list (where real exposure usually hides), URL and cloud-app control, DNS and firewall policy, inline DLP, sandboxing, ZPA application segments and access policies scoped to least privilege, posture profiles, App Connector and Browser Access configuration, Client Connector forwarding profiles and PAC logic, and admin RBAC on the Zscaler tenant itself.
SaaS data sharing and exposure (Google Workspace + Microsoft 365 / OneDrive / SharePoint). Exhaustive audit and remediation of external sharing: link-sharing defaults and expiry, target audiences, shared drives and site-level overrides, guest and unmanaged-device access, sensitivity labels and Purview / Google DLP rules, Entra ID Conditional Access, third-party OAuth app consent and API access controls, service account key sprawl and domain-wide delegation, and Alert Center / Defender for Cloud Apps signal quality. You will quantify how much company data is currently shared to “anyone with the link” — and then reduce it.
Adversary-led validation. Design and run authorized, scoped tests against our own environment: adversary-in-the-middle session hijacking, MFA fatigue and downgrade paths, OAuth consent phishing, help-desk social-engineering resistance, SaaS-to-SaaS integration abuse, and identity attack-path mapping. Translate every finding into a specific configuration change with an owner and a date, then purple-team the result to confirm detection actually fired.
Architecture, standards, and evidence. Set the target-state reference architecture for identity and SaaS security, define hardening baselines against CIS Benchmarks, CISA SCuBA, and NIST SP 800-207, instrument continuous configuration-drift detection, and produce the evidence auditors, customers, and executives ask for. You will brief the CIO and security leadership on residual risk in plain language.
Every material finding must result in a root-cause analysis, durable remediation, accountable owner, deadline, compensating control when necessary, and evidence that the fix worked.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance
Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSAs) and Commuter benefits
401K match and ESPP
Paid time off and paid sick leave
Paid parental and pregnancy leave
Family-forming benefits (IVF, Preservation, Adoption etc.)
Emergency backup care (Child/Adult/Pets)
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with counseling sessions available 24/7
Free legal services that provide legal advice, document creation and estate planning
Employee bonus referral program
Debt refinancing assistance
Employee perks and discounts program