Okta Jr Engineer

The Team

We are the Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, part of Global Information Security at Hitachi Digital, and we are passionate advocates of information security! We maintain key tools and software in our corporate environment that ensures the proper identity and access management of our employees, vendors, customers, and partners. We are out-of-the-box thinkers, innovators, and team players. We continuously seek new and better ways to enhance our practices and strive for nothing less than excellence in our cybersecurity operations. We are looking for highly motivated individuals with a positive attitude who want to be part of something exceptional. We strive for nothing less than the very best IAM program!

The Role

As an experienced, technically sound Okta Engineer with 2-3 years of experience, you will join a team of IAM/Okta engineers.. Working closely with other teams you will help to mature the Identity and Access Management program at Hitachi Digital.

As an expert at managing, configuring, and developing IAM platforms, you will be responsible for maintaining the health and proper functioning of our internal identity ecosystem. This will include designing and maintaining workflows around user onboarding, access requests, certification, and developing integrations for Authentication and Authorization using protocols such as SAML and OIDC/OAuth2.0.

Your tasks will also include:

• Tier 2 and 3 end user support.


• Creating, reviewing, and maintaining custom OAuth and OIDC integrations with Okta.


• Management of application, org, and authorization server access policies.


• Integrating SaaS applications using SAML.


• Integrating new applications to Hitachi Digital’s access request catalog.


• Maintaining, developing, and supporting integrations with critical platforms such as Oracle, Workday, Active Directory, and Azure.


• Managing and integrating applications integrated with the Okta Access Gateway


• Developing Okta Workflows to supplement native provisioning and registration processes.


• Developing custom code to interact with Okta’s public facing APIs. Terraform or PowerShell experience is a plus.


• Managing Org2Org federations with other companies in the Hitachi Group.


• Experience with Okta Identity Governance is encouraged.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong/expert level understanding of authentication mechanisms and protocols including OIDC/OAuth and SAML, and key related security concepts such as MFA, and how these are used with Okta and other IdPs, and the ability to trouble shoot issues in this realm. Familiarity with Okta’s public facing API collections and development SDKs is a must.


• Knowledge of advanced Okta SKUs such as the Okta Access Gateway, Okta Workflows, and Okta Identity Governance are crucial. Okta certifications are a large plus for this role.


• Strong/expert level experience integrating applications with Okta for SSO


• Great interpersonal skills: good written & oral communication in English, ability & willingness to work within international team, collaborative & team-oriented approach, being self-driven with an ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and variables in a dynamic and fast moving, large scale project with tight deadlines, multiple priorities and under defined budget, high attention to details and quality.