• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of detection engineers, and incident responders.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and operational excellence.
• Ensure team members have clear goals, growth opportunities, and the tools they need to succeed.
• Oversee the identification, investigation, and response to security threats across Okta’s global operations during the Americas shift.
• Ensure rapid response and containment of cyber incidents, coordinating cross-functional efforts when needed.
• Lead post-incident reviews and drive improvements to detection and response capabilities.
• Develop and oversee the execution of proactive threat hunting programs to identify and mitigate advanced persistent threats (APTs) and sophisticated adversaries targeting Okta’s infrastructure.
• Collaborate with the Threat Analysis & Research team to integrate threat intelligence and adversarial engineering into detection and response efforts, staying ahead of new and emerging cyber threats.
• Continuously improve detection and response processes, integrating automation and ensuring quality in all aspects of the team's work.
• Optimize the use of security tools, such as SIEM, EDR, and case management platforms.
• Partner with engineering and IT teams to enhance security visibility and response capabilities.
• Work closely with security leadership, IT, and engineering teams to strengthen Okta’s security posture.
• Communicate key security risks, incidents, and trends to senior leadership.
• Contribute to Okta’s broader security strategy and advocate for cyber resilience across the company.

Required Qualifications

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• Leading, or contributing to, technology focused teams large or small.
• Mentoring staff and providing development opportunities to build high performing teams.
• Operating as, or providing support to, the incident commander or technical lead during cyber security incidents.
• Developing advanced detection capabilities, working with detection-as-code, and automating the triage and response of alerts they generate.

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Preferred Qualifications

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• Researching the tactics, techniques and procedures of sophisticated adversaries and hunting for evidence of them within an enterprise environment.
• Developing detection and response validation techniques and automating tests to enable continuous assurance of defensive cyber capabilities.
• Analysing critical systems to understand both how to break them and defend them against attack.
• Working collaboratively within product and/or enterprise project teams, assisting to deliver large and complex technology solutions.

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:

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• 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.

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#LI-REMOTE

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

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• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta

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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!

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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. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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