Senior Manager, Security Education

Okta, Inc.; Toronto; Remote; CAD 186,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Sr. Manager for Developer Security Enablement & Operations. This role involves leadership in security education initiatives, enhancing software development security, and fostering a collaborative team environment. Candidates should have extensive experience in product security and a background in software development. Join Okta to contribute to the security of innovative identity solutions.

Benefits

Health insurance

Flexible work environment

Paid leave including PTO and parental leave

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Product Security or related positions
• 3-5+ years in a leadership or management role

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Security Engineers to enhance Secure Development Lifecycle adherence
• Coordinate the development of secure software training materials and tools
• Recruit and grow a high-performing team culture

Skills

Collaboration

Communication

Strategic Thinking

Problem Solving

Self-Direction

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

Job description

Get to know Okta

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

Sr. Manager, Developer Security Enablement & Operations

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

Sr. Manager, Developer Security Enablement & Operations

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can improve us with their unique experiences.

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Security team’s mission is to strengthen Okta’s position as the leading Identity-as-a-service solutions provider by identifying and resolving risks to employees, products, and, most importantly, our customers. With the ever-increasing pace of cloud application adoption, companies are struggling to find ways to accurately assess risk and act at the speed of their business

As the Sr Manager for Secure Development Enablement and Operations, you'll lead a team focusing on developer-centric programs and services, making sure we bring the appropriate training, tooling, and support, to Okta developers.

What you will be doing:

• Lead a team of highly collaborative Security Engineers running Okta's Security Champions Program to deliver strategic guidance that will drive Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) adherence
• Lead initiatives to enable secure software development for Okta developers, including coordinating the development and periodic updates of training materials, implementation of developer centric security tools, early use and adoption of security verification tools –e.g., IDE plugins–, etc.
• Plan, organize and execute the assignment of security training for different roles within the Okta organization, and produce appropriate tracking and reporting
• Introduce, maintain and leverage, platforms that can assess security posture based on security control adoption (SDL) and risk assessment based on output of those security controls, to enable use cases of partner teams and to be the basis for improvement conversations with individual development teams.
• Grow engineers’ skills, experience and confidence through regular 1:1s, coaching, actionable feedback, work and peer alignment, and career advocacy
• Maintain and strengthen a team culture of growth, openness, trust, rigor, humility, mutual support, and psychological safety
• Lead the process of recruiting great engineers to meet the growth plan for the team, in collaboration with our recruiters

You might be a good fit if you:

• Demonstrated success as a lead/manager in a product security team, fostering highly-functional, healthy, inclusive and collaborative teams
• Have experience in leading security education initiatives, including the production of content, including those produced for live sessions and for on-demand consumption
• Have previous software development experience as a manager or individual contributor
• Experience working in a geographically distributed engineering organization
• Thrive with a high level of self-direction, autonomy and responsibility
• Confident and know how to deal with ambiguities
• Enjoy working in an iterative development environment
• Work well with technical and non-technical people to deliver high-value results.
• Are a great communicator and communication facilitator
• Strong experience setting strategy, producing well documented and analyzed project plans, and delivering on program objectives

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in Product Security or related positions
• 3-5+ years in a leadership or management role

Okta’s Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our company’s actions. They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency. It’s our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies:

• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness (EQ): Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.

#LI-REMOTE

Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit:https://rewards.okta.com/can .

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between: $186,000 — $278,000 CAD

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/ .

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

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