Senior Consultant – Okta Solutions - Sirius

Sirius Computer Solutions is a CDW company. We share common values as a performance-driven, customer-focused culture. CDW is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare customers across the globe. 

The primary purpose of this position is to provide advanced Security consulting solutions to clients, with a focus on MFA/SSO solutions. This position may perform activities such as application/systems installation, deployment, configuration, security assessments, security program consulting, and documentation. This position will also handle client engagements requiring knowledge of multiple technologies. 

Primary Duties & Responsibilities 

• Performs a variety of billable Security consulting activities in support of clients’ objectives, which may include, but are not limited to: 
  • Identity and Access Management 
  • Security Programs Strategy and Operations 
  • Security Assessments 
• Leads code or other technical reviews and presents constructive feedback to technical team 
• Participates in requirements gathering activities, examining the entire business application and/or systems design from the aspects of the workflow and the end user 
• Builds focused relationships with clients to identify business challenges 
• Makes recommendations to solve client problems 
• Directly interacts with clients, sales team, managers and other technical team members to identify, develop, and obtain complete information for solutions including hardware, software and services, and scope statement and level of effort 
• Documents completed technical work for clients 
• Maintains technical specifications throughout a project 
• Contributes and develop best practices, strategies, methodologies and documentation/templates suitable for reuse by other Consultants and Analysts 
• Achieves high level of Client Satisfaction on all consulting engagements by executing to achieve client project expectations 
• Develops strong client relationships and trust to secure future business 
• Reviews and understands all assigned Statement of Work (SOW) obligations prior to services delivery 
• Maintains accountability to work estimates and project financials 
• Provides technical perspective to ensure a realistic estimation of scope, cost and level of effort for proposal generation 
• Serves as a point of contact to the client for technical issues and status 
• Mentors less senior personnel and serves as escalation point for their technical related project issues 
• As needed, steps into team leadership roles and empowers others to increase contribution and level of responsibility 
• Complies with all time compliance and time entry guidelines 
• Meets billable utilization targets 
• Training/Certifications - Engages in professional development, including obtaining industry related certifications as directed by management, to maintain continued growth in professional skills and knowledge 
• Administrative Overhead – Respond to email, phone calls, complete time cards in a timely manner, expense reports and status reports as required  

Basic Qualifications  

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field 
• At least five (5) years of related work experience with one or more Security solutions in the Sirius portfolio, to include: 
• At least three (3) years’ related work experience with Okta 

Other Position Requirements 

• Experience implementing the Okta Identity Cloud in enterprise environments 
• Experience with adaptive and risk-based authentication 
• Experience with reverse proxy/web access management solutions such as IBM Security Access Manager, CA SiteMinder, F5 APM and Micro Focus NetIQ Access Manager 
• Experience with Okta Access Gateway 
• Deep technical knowledge of modern SSO protocols including SAML 1.1/2.0, OAuth2 and OpenID Connect, Kerberos/Integrated Windows Authentication 
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with a wide variety of client and Sirius team members, including management and technical staff 
• Demonstrated ability to investigate complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in- depth evaluation of variable factors from multiple IT solutions and/or disciplines 
• Demonstrated understanding of core business functions of a typical company, and ability to employ step by step logic to solve business problems 
• Experience as a member of a technical project team, from design through delivery 
• Experience troubleshooting and identifying potential problems and making appropriate changes as necessary 
• Experience creating technical documentation 
• Demonstrated ability to work with wide variety of client staff including management and technical staff 
• Demonstrated ability to provide guidance and leadership to less experienced technical team members, including delegating technical tasks, and at times resolving issues of poor technical execution without escalation 
• Demonstrated presentation and communication skills, including effectively communicating one-on-one, and in small and large groups, using a variety of presentation methods to sustain the audiences’ engagement 
• Demonstrated time management and organizational skills; ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously 
• Demonstrated ability to establish positive working relationships and conduct complex and important work critical to the organization in a team consulting environments 

Preferred Requirements 

• Consulting experience  
• Certifications in relevant areas of specialty 
• JavaScript development experience 

Data Privacy and Security:   

• All Sirius employees are responsible to safeguard the information and information systems that they use or handle in the execution of their duties. Employees are obligated to know and perform their duties in accordance with Sirius policies, standards, and procedures related to security and report security violations to the appropriate Sirius authority. 
• Participate at hire and annually in the Information Security Awareness training as well as other required training identified by the Human Resources department.  Other data privacy and data security related regulatory training may be required based on your role or assignment. 

Essential Functions: 
This position exists to provide technical consulting solutions to customers and as such requires the ability to travel to and from customer sites and interact with customers on an ongoing and regular basis.   

The above primary duties, responsibilities, and position requirements are not all inclusive 
  
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