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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.

The ideal Support Engineer, Federal is an articulate and seasoned technical specialist who understands and can appreciate the user identity challenges organizations face along their journey to the cloud. You have technical depth and a customer-first mentality, the motivation to take the initiative to own and resolve customer issues, and an interest in working in a dynamic, fast-growing, learning environment.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

The Okta Technical Support Engineer, Federal is the primary point of contact on  all support related issues for Okta’s Federal customers.  A Support Engineer acts as the voice of the customer to ensure technical support and best practice guidance are provided within published SLAs and to the highest satisfaction levels.    

• Take end-to-end ownership of customer issues, including initial troubleshooting, identification of root cause, and issue resolution. 
• Meet or exceed customer expectations on response quality, timeliness of responses, and overall customer experience.
• Provide well-thought-out and reliable direction, both in technical and non-technical terms, to help customers integrate, deploy, and maintain Okta’s suite of security products.
• Serve as an internal and external point of contact on customer matters and ensure customer issues are resolved as expediently as possible.
• Collect information and document bugs with Engineering for product issues that are impacting customers. 
• Contribute to and maintain a repository of product area specific knowledge within support and promote a culture of team knowledge share and collaboration within the application and Lifecycle management SME team.
• Push creative thinking beyond the boundaries of existing industry-standard practices to come up with process improvements and new ways to delight customers.
• Be a customer advocate for timely resolution of the problems reported, understand the environment/network and impact on business.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of customer support, technical support, system administration, or related customer-facing role.
• Familiarity with Networking with a focus on APIs.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly, and thrives in ambiguity.
• Excellent relationship management, customer service, and communication skills in a variety of forms (written, live chat, conference calls, in-person).
• Maintain composure when all those about them have lost theirs. 
• Experience documenting customer issues via Salesforce or a similar CRM ticketing system.
• Experience translating customer issues to appropriate audiences.
• Prior experience providing support to large enterprise customers with the ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership.
• Understanding of multi-factor authentication and smart card experience are a plus.
• Familiarity troubleshooting Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies (SSO, SAML, OAuth, Federation, SCIM, etc.)

Additional requirements:

• Ability to work on-call rotation weekends and holidays

• This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data.  As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.

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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.   

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington is between:$80,000—$120,000 USD The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $99,000—$149,000 USD

What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
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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/.

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