IAM Automation Engineer

IAM Automation Engineer Okta & Terraform



Location: San Francisco preferred

Other locations: Austin, New York, Washington DC

Work: 100% onsite 5 days/week

Experience: 5+ years

Level: Mid-Senior

Duration: 12 months

What will this person do?
This person will automate employee access to company applications .
They will use Okta + Terraform + CI/CD to automatically give employees the right access when they join, change roles, or leave the company.

Main Responsibilities

• Automate employee onboarding and offboarding

• Automatically provision and remove application access

• Manage Okta applications, groups, policies, and workflows

• Build Terraform modules for Okta

• Build CI/CD pipelines for identity/security changes

• Connect HR systems such as ADP with Okta

• Integrate Okta with SaaS applications

• Work with REST APIs

• Use Git, pull requests, and code reviews

• Add testing, approvals, logging, monitoring, and rollback

• Create documentation and operational runbooks

• Follow least-privilege and secrets-management practices

Must-Have Skills

1. Okta hands-on automation/integration

2. Terraform

3. CI/CD

4. Git + Pull Requests + Code Reviews

5. REST APIs

6. IAM / Identity Lifecycle Management

7. SaaS/Application Provisioning

8. Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar scripting/programming

9. Secrets Management & Least Privilege

10. Ability to work onsite 5 days/week

Good-to-Have Skills

• Okta Workflows

• Okta Lifecycle Management

• Okta Identity Governance

• ADP / HRIS integrations

• SCIM

• SAML

• OAuth 2.0

• OpenID Connect (OIDC)

• AI coding assistants / agentic development tools

• High-growth technology company experience

Best Candidate Profile



IAM Engineer + Okta + Terraform + Automation
A strong candidate should have actually built and automated Okta/IAM processes , not just administered Okta manually.