Staff DevSecOps Engineer: Security Posture Automation

Okta Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta Inc. in Washington, DC is seeking a Staff DevSecOps Engineer (TS/SCI) to advance vulnerability management across infrastructure and cloud environments.

You will embed with engineering and operations to strengthen security posture and automate findings, remediation status, and risk data. The role emphasizes building centralized analytics, owning issue tracking, and accelerating remediation, with long‑term goals to apply AI to security data and prioritization.

Qualifications

• Hands-on DevSecOps engineer focusing on vulnerability management and automation.
• Experience automating vulnerability scanning, remediation tracking, and risk reporting.
• Collaborates with SRE to manage pipelines and enforce baselines.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a security SME for automation of vulnerability scanning and reporting.
• Collaborate with SRE to manage update pipelines and enforce baseline standards.
• Develop automation to scale security posture scanning, reporting, remediation, and patch validation.
• Lead efforts to design and implement in-house security systems and feature enhancements.
• Build and enhance automation and cloud infrastructure using Terraform or similar.

Skills

Security automation

Vulnerability management

DevSecOps

Python

SRE collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Okta Inc. in Washington, DC is seeking a Staff DevSecOps Engineer (TS/SCI) to advance vulnerability management across infrastructure and cloud environments.

You will embed with engineering and operations to strengthen security posture and automate findings, remediation status, and risk data. The role emphasizes building centralized analytics, owning issue tracking, and accelerating remediation, with long‑term goals to apply AI to security data and prioritization.