Senior Identity Specialist -OnPremises

Overview

Senior Identity Solution Specialist in Okta’s Global Presales team, delivering technical presentations and demonstrations for securing complex on-premises environments.

What you’ll do

• Lead modernization discovery sessions with infrastructure and security leaders for aging WAM stacks.
• Deliver tailored hybrid architecture demos focused on Okta Access Gateway (OAG) and bridging legacy apps.
• Design and execute outcome-focused proof of concepts for securing header-based apps and on-prem ERP systems.
• Create and maintain reusable demonstration systems, diagrams, documentation, and POC templates.
• Provide strategic and technical guidance to Solutions Engineering teams across Okta identity platforms.
• Deliver keynote presentations, webinars, and technical sessions at industry and customer events.
• Contribute frameworks, tools, and content to enable Solutions Engineering execution.

What you’ll need

• Expert-level understanding of legacy Web Access Management tools such as CA Siteminder, Oracle Access Manager (OAM), and PingAccess.
• Proficiency managing identity synchronization and access between on-premises environments (Active Directory, LDAP) and the cloud.
• Mastery of Kerberos, header-based authentication, and bridging to OIDC/SAML.
• Hands-on experience securing and integrating enterprise suites including SAP and Oracle EBS (and PeopleSoft is mentioned).
• Strong understanding of reverse proxies, load balancers, and Okta Access Gateway (OAG) deployment models.
• Knowledge of SSL/TLS termination, certificate management, and on-premises network security.
• Experience integrating identity platforms with SIEM (Splunk, Sentinel) and SOAR tools.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Travel expectation: up to 40% for customer meetings, industry events, and internal off-sites.