IAM Architect for Government-Grade Security & SSO

Industrious Ventures; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwood is seeking a Corporate Security Architect to own identity architecture across hybrid environments, focusing on Okta-based IAM, SSO, and least-privilege access. The role requires deep Okta expertise and CMMC/NIST-compliant design practices.

You will collaborate with security leadership to implement adaptive authentication, RBAC, and privileged access controls while ensuring audit-ready documentation and integration with the SIEM.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on IAM engineering, with Okta ownership in production.
• Deep Okta expertise including SSO, lifecycle, MFA, adaptive authentication, workflows, and SIEM integration.
• Strong understanding of SSO protocols (SAML 2.0, OIDC, OAuth 2.0) and troubleshooting integrations.
• Experience designing RBAC, entitlement reviews, and access certification processes.
• Familiarity with gov compliance: NIST 800-171, ITAR, and related controls.

Responsibilities

• Own Okta environment end-to-end: tenant config, app integrations, lifecycle mgmt., MFA policy enforcement.
• Design and maintain a consistent SSO architecture across corporate and government apps.
• Develop adaptive authentication, risk-based access controls, and policy enforcement.
• Manage provisioning/deprovisioning and access changes across users and service accounts.
• Maintain identity telemetry feeding into SIEM for monitoring and auditing.
• Collaborate with security leads to ensure Zero Trust and compliant identity controls.

Skills

Okta administration

IAM engineering

SSO configuration

MFA policy enforcement

RBAC design

GRC collaboration

Identity governance

gov compliance familiarity

Tools

Okta Workflows

SAML 2.0

OIDC

OAuth 2.0

Cloudflare Zero Trust

SIEM integration

CyberArk PAM

Job description

Northwood is seeking a Corporate Security Architect to own identity architecture across hybrid environments, focusing on Okta-based IAM, SSO, and least-privilege access. The role requires deep Okta expertise and CMMC/NIST-compliant design practices.

You will collaborate with security leadership to implement adaptive authentication, RBAC, and privileged access controls while ensuring audit-ready documentation and integration with the SIEM.