Staff DevSecOps Engineer (TS/SCI)

Staff DevSecOps Engineer (TS/SCI)

Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Staff DevSecOps Engineer with an issue management focus to be part of Security’s Vulnerability Management team. The team delivers foundational infrastructure vulnerability scanning and reporting capabilities that enable corporate engineering teams to operate securely, reliably, and at scale.

In this role, you will be embedded directly within our service environments, working side-by-side with engineering and operations teams to strengthen Okta’s security posture across infrastructure, cloud, and business systems. You will build centralized security posture analytics and reporting capabilities that aggregate findings, remediation status, and risk data across Okta's security tools to improve visibility, accountability, and execution.

What You'll Be Doing

• 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. Demonstrate 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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Ability to build and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines to process vulnerability data.
• Proven track record of automating security controls and workflows using a cloud-first approach.
• Experience with Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code tools to orchestrate security infrastructure.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for security automation and drift management.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with technical staff, support teams, executive leadership, and external vendors.
• 2+ years of experience building engineering solutions within highly regulated environments is a plus.
• Experience with automating commercial or open-source vulnerability and misconfiguration scanners and reporting tools (e.g., Qualys, TenableSC, Prisma Cloud, Wiz, Orca, Lacework, Paramify, Atlassian Jira, ServiceNow) is a plus.
• Familiarity with industry standards, frameworks, and publications such as CVE, CVSS, EPSS, OWASP, and CISA KEV catalog is a plus.

Additional Requirements

• U.S. Soil Status: Employee must be on U.S. soil (the 50 states, DC, or outlying areas defined in FAR 2.101).
• U.S. Person Status: Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual/national. Visa holders do not qualify.
• Security Clearance: Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Poly.
• Compliance Expertise: Proven experience navigating Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6).