Asset Management Manager

Manager, Asset Management

The Okta Security team’s mission is to strengthen Okta’s position as the leading Identity-as-a-Service solutions through identifying and resolving risks to the employees, product, and most importantly, our customers. With the ever-increasing pace of cloud application adoption, companies are struggling to find ways to accurately assess risk and act at the speed of their business. 

 

The Manager, Asset Management is a key member of the Okta Security team and an essential collaborator with our broader Engineering organization. Reporting to the Director of Asset and Vulnerability Management, this person will play a key role in executing the Asset Management Program’s strategy, as well as, hiring and managing a team of 4+ individuals. The Asset Management Program is a crucial pillar of the security organizations’ imperative to reduce the threats to Okta’s infrastructure and applications. You’ll be an integral part of building and sustaining strong and effective relationships across Okta with our Engineering, Product and Business Technology counterparts.

 

What You and Your Team Will Do

 

• Assist in developing a strategic enterprise-wide program for managing assets across Okta, ensuring IT assets are properly inventoried for effective governance and decision-making.
• Build the asset management function including hiring and managing a team of 4+ team members.
• Manage the definition, deployment, maintenance and configuration of asset discovery processes.
• Design and manage deployment of a comprehensive asset inventory management system.
• Enhance asset tagging processes to improve the way assets are labeled, tracked and assigned ownership across Okta. 
• Participate in asset lifecycle management. 
• Assist infrastructure owners in designing and implementing proper asset decommissioning (EoL) processes.
• Identify, design, and deploy technology and process controls to either stop shadow IT sprawling, guide users towards enterprise sanctioned IT services or structurally turn shadow IT services to approved and secure infrastructure.
• Assess new and existing scan technologies to determine potential value and risk to the enterprise and ensure risk beyond defined thresholds is appropriately treated.
• Investigate asset management compliance findings present within the environment, and coordinate remediation efforts in collaboration with other IT teams and subject matter experts.
• Support monitoring and responding to security inquiries, requests, and incidents as part of supporting the business through sound and timely cybersecurity response.
• Support audit, governance, risk and compliance teams regarding various asset management related regulatory compliance and industry best practices including PCI, ISO 27001/27017/27018 , NIST SP 800-53, SOC 2 and FedRAMP.

 

Okta’s Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our company’s actions. They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency. It’s our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies: