Sr Okta Consultant/Lead

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Job Title: Sr Okta Consultant/Lead

Location: Remote

Duration : 3-6 months (Possible extension) Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced, hands-on Lead Okta Consultant who is excited to learn the Okta platform and our technology. You will lead multiple concurrent customer deployment projects with our goal to ensure long-term customer satisfaction and success.

Duties and responsibilities

At least 4 to 5 years of Okta Technical Consultant experience.

MUST be certified in “ Okta Consultant”

Gather, analyze, and document post-sales requirements.

Communicate to customers and partners at the technical and/or functional level appropriate for the situation.

Act as a liaison between Customers and Product Management.

Lead interaction and collaboration with other Okta teams such as Engineering and Support as needed to address escalated issues.

Interact with management and other roles within the customer organization and Okta.

Perform hands on technical design, configuration, and troubleshooting of the Okta service.

Ensure quality and time management processes are followed by team (e.g., change controls, time tracking).

Qualifications

Experience as a technical consultant delivering solutions to customers

MUST be certified in “ Okta Consultant”

Experience in designing and implementing security and identity management solutions to support critical systems and business programs.

Experience with technologies and protocols to support identity federation and robust access control models (e.g., SAML 2.0, WS-Federation, OAuth, OpenID Connect).

Some knowledge of enterprise web technologies, security and cutting-edge infrastructures.

Ability to work independently.

General knowledge of cloud architectures as well as complex enterprise on-premise IT landscapes.

Knowledge of typical enterprise identity life cycle management processes and standards.

AD and LDAP experience is preferred.

Able and willing to be a hands-on contributor.

Software development experience strongly preferred (Java, Ruby, Python, REST/JSON, etc).

Preferred experience with JavaScript and one of the major JavaScript MVC frameworks (Backbone, Angular, Ember, React, etc.) Education : A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline required.

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