Okta Security Architect- Remote (location Negotiable)

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ACCENTURE SECURITY

Accenture Security delivers continuous, rapid-fire innovation and new business capabilities that meet —and redefine—the needs of the digital era. You’ll help our clients—including 94 of the Fortune 100 and governments around the world—transform their technology infrastructures using resources that range from cloud, data centers, and workplace to networks, security, and managed services.

We Are

Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along with all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our client's needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people uses the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security, and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.

We are currently looking for professionals for our Managed Security Services aka “MSS” practice with extensive experience in the following:

You Are

Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment

Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

Desire to work in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment

Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral), and interpersonal skills

Can apply deep security skills to design, build and protect enterprise systems, applications, data, assets, and people for Accenture and our clients

The Work (Role Responsibility)

Although no two days at Accenture are the same, your duties as IT Security & Controls Consultant likely will include:

Okta Security Architect is responsible for the design, development, implementation, application integration, automation and improvement of Client’s access management solutions including, but not limited to, Single Sign On & Federation, Directory Services, Multifactor Authentication, and Web Access Management.

• Demonstrated experience in end-to-end deployment of OKTA solution
• Experience directly related to OKTA planning, implementation, and operation
• Experience training others in the use and functionality of the Okta SaaS products including MFA
• Contribute to establishing repeatable processes for Access Management using Okta
• Provide technical support to meet service level agreements
• Participate in efforts to develop departmental strategies
• Perform business use case analysis to implement Okta solutions
• Support the development and implementation of Okta integrations for various business functions
• Evaluate integration opportunities from technical perspective and recommend solutions
• Follow SDLC, change management and document the procedures on OKTA solution
• Identify, track and resolve technical issues
• Configure Okta to provide enterprise Single Sign-On services and enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) platform features for internal and external applications
• Assist application teams through the SDLC process (including requirements gathering, configuration, testing to integrate applications with Okta)

Basic Responsibilities:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in various authentication standards such as Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), OAuth, OpenID Connect and Header based applications
• Minimum of 5 years knowledge of web services (REST/SOAP). Familiarity with SCIM and knowledge of various API authentication standards
• Minimum of 5 years of Okta skills with solid hands-on experience integrating Okta with Active directory and Azure Active DirectoryMinimum of 5 years in OKTA, Access Gateway, Single Sign-On, Adaptive MFA and Universal directory

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