Principal IAM Engineer / First Identity Hire / Okta Only

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing company in the life insurance industry is seeking a senior engineer/architect for Identity Access Management to modernize their program. The role involves standardizing Okta, implementing risk-based MFA, and requiring strong development skills. This fully remote position allows for quarterly visits to headquarters and offers a range of benefits including medical insurance and stock options.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Vacation Time

Stock Options

Bonus eligible

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience focused on IAM engineering and architecture.
• Strong development skills are encouraged.
• Experience with secrets management and cloud migration preferred.

Responsibilities

• Standardizing Okta and building risk-based MFA.
• Working closely with development teams and automating processes.
• Managing IAM program and defining RBAC.

Skills

IAM engineering

Okta

RBAC

Development

Communication Skills

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent working experience

Job description

This company in the life insurance industry is looking for their first proper Identity Access Management hire. They have folks doing access provisioning and active directory, but they need someone to modernize their program. This person will be standardizing Okta, building risk-based MFA, defining RBAC, modernizing APIs, and more, in addition to working closely with the development team (so strong knowledge in development is very helpful). There will be some automation and Terraform involved as well. This is a senior engineer/architect position that is fully remote (with travel to headquarters once per quarter).

This is a full-time position that requires strong engineering skills in Okta implementation and modernization. Development skills are strongly encouraged (any language) and automation skills are required.


Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of experience with a focus on IAM engineering and architecture
  • Okta required
  • RBAC
  • Building risk-based MFA
• Strong knowledge of development
  • Development background strongly encouraged
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Desired Skills & Experience

• Secrets management experience
• Cloud migration experience
  • AWS preferred
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent working experience

What You Will Be Doing
Tech Breakdown

• 100% Okta

Daily Responsibilities

• 70% Hands On
• 10% Management Duties
• 20% Team Collaboration

The Offer

• Bonus eligible

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Vacation Time
• Stock Options

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.