Specialist/System Admin/Identity Admin

Job Title - Specialist/System Admin/Identity Admin

Duration: 3+ Months (Surely Extendable)

Job Location - Remote

Duties: Okta is seeking a Specialist to join our Competitive Intelligence (CI) team.

The Competitive Intelligence Specialist is responsible for gathering, analyzing, and presenting detailed competitive intelligence on technology products and services. This role requires a deep understanding of the technical aspects of an identity product, the ability to evaluate and compare competitive offerings.

• Perform in-depth capability analysis of Microsoft Identity Products products leveraging publicly available information information on public websites, magazine and newspaper articles, radio or other media interviews, events open to the general public, publicly available annual reports, and interviews with end-users of competitors' products or services (provided they are free to do so without contractual restriction) for following products.

Microsoft Entra ID

Microsoft Identity Manager

Microsoft Active Directory

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Service

• Setup test environments to perform feature testing may also be required.
• Maintain resources such as competitive battlecards, playbooks, SWOT analysis, etc., and transform these competitive insights into useful tools for field enablement.

Skills: We are looking for:

1. Understanding of customer and workforce identity spaces. Awareness of key players.
2. Deep knowledge of Okta and Microsoft's suite of products.
3. Experience working with Hybrid Identity (Active Directory + Okta or Active Directory + Entra ID)
4. Experience setting up SSO & provisioning for SaaS applications.
5. Strong technical research, benchmarking, and analytical skills.

Bonus points for:

1. Hands-on experience with any of the following products Ping, ForgeRock, Sailpoint.
2. Experience working with various endpoints including Windows. mscOS. Linux. iOS & Android
3. Understanding of authentication and authorization protocols (OAuth, OAuth2, OIDC, SAML,Kerberos, LDAP)
4. Hand-ons work with MDM or UEM products (Intune. Workspace One, JamF etc)

Keywords:

Pre-Work Questions:

1. Describe how you would approach comparing the feature sets of Okta and Microsoft in the context of workforce identity management. What key features would you focus on, and how would you identify the advantages and disadvantages of each vendor's approach?
2. Explain how risk-based authentication works in the context of Workforce Identity. Compare how Okta & Microsoft implement this feature and discuss the competitive advantages of their approaches.
3. What are the key differences between Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) and Workforce Identity Management? How do Okta & Microsoft address these requirements differently?
4. Discuss the role of Identity Governance and Administration in the broader IAM landscape. How do Okta & Microsoft address IGA needs, and what are the competitive implications of their respective approaches? Who are considered the leaders in the space?
5. Build a sample Feature Gap Analysis. Create a detailed comparison matrix of a specific feature, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), across Okta & Microsoft. The matrix should include not only a list of supported features but also an analysis of the implementation differences, strengths, and weaknesses of each vendor's approach. Make sure to include sources where possible. Present your findings in a brief presentation (slides preferably) that you would use to brief a product marketing team.

Skills and Experience:

IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT

OKTA

SSO

SAAS

TECHNICAL RESEARCH

Additional Skills:

IOS

GOVERNANCE

LDAP

ACTIVE DIRECTORY

PROVISIONING

ANDROID

OAUTH

KERBEROS

LINUX

AUTHENTICATION

PRODUCT MARKETING

GAP ANALYSIS

SAILPOINT

SAML

MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT

IDENTITY MANAGEMENT

MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION

SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE