Lynda Brown
EMEA Director of Talent AcquisitionBirmingham, United Kingdom
My experience has taught me to give people chances - it’s amazing to see how much they can flourish when you do.
Meet our 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 3-5 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 bring to the team:
• 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.
Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.
How we look after you
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.
My experience has taught me to give people chances - it’s amazing to see how much they can flourish when you do.
I love to have discussions with employees and managers on what we can do to support the overall wellbeing of our teams.
Working as a group has always given me energy and kept me motivated, we can deliver amazing results as a collective.
Hitachi’s commitment to sustainability and proactiveness to support clients as a social responsibility makes me excited about the future.
Hitachi offers great work-life balance, and flexible working arrangements - from remote to hybrid. If you are interested in comprehensive and competitive perks and benefits, you will find it all here.
Empathy is important. When we love working with the people around us, we like coming into work and dealing with those people every day.
