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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

This position is for an intern on Okta’s Federal Security and Compliance team. This team’s mission is to strengthen Okta’s position as the leading Identity-as-a-Service solution through a security-first approach to compliance. This team is largely focused on working with internal and external stakeholders to maintain our FedRAMP authorizations for our Okta government systems. 

As an intern on the Federal Compliance team, you will support security initiatives by engaging various process owners in the design, documentation, implementation, and monitoring of the appropriate controls in our computing environments. This candidate will work with internal stakeholders to improve our compliance posture, security controls, and compliance-related processes.

The ideal candidate will have a knowledge base of information system controls, and control frameworks (i.e. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), FedRAMP, and the DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (CC SRG)) that organizations implement and comply with to secure their systems. Additionally, they should have a baseline understanding of how modern-day applications and systems operate, especially cloud computing operations. Hands-on experience with information technology and information system security tools is encouraged, but not required. 

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support and learn about continuous monitoring programs by collaborating with Compliance team members and engineering stakeholders to support continuous monitoring programs across all federal environments
• Support audit efforts by coordinating with multiple distributed teams to communicate requirements and gather necessary audit evidence and information to support audit requirements
• Support collaboration with process and control owners and learn about how organizations process audit results, identify remediation options, and prioritize their closure
• Support efforts around development of appropriate security and compliance documentation, including system security plans, and information security policies. Learn about how organizations develop diagrams and documentation to translate complex environments into digestible information
• Support compliance team members in assessing security impact of changes to federal systems and applications. Learn about how today’s organizations implement change control and conduct security impact analysis in dynamic environments.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• (In progress) BS in Information Systems or MIS, or related degree
• Baseline understanding and desire to learn about industry/regulatory compliance frameworks - primarily NIST SP 800-53 and FedRAMP
• Baseline understanding and desire to learn about NIST 800-53 security controls and the concept of applying NIST 800-53 controls to systems and applications 
• Baseline understanding and desire to learn about terms and concepts used in information security, privacy, and risk assessments
• Baseline understanding and desire to learn about how information systems and applications work in a modern cloud environment.

As an intern, you’ll do real work that matters. While you’re on board, you’ll work on meaningful projects and have an opportunity to see what working at Okta is all about. You’ll also have the support of your mentor and manager to help you develop new skills. 

Our interns have the opportunity to build a strong community - with their fellow interns, within their teams, and with the broader company. We want you to grow professionally and you’ll do that through participating in events like our Executive Speaker Series and Brown Bags.  And of course, we want you to have fun too.

Interns may choose the format of their internship: either in-person at one of our Okta offices, or virtually. We give our interns the opportunity to choose the option that best suits their needs. 

We offer 12 week internships in the U.S.

What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta 

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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