Solutions Engineer - Italy

Okta Okta · Enterprise · Italy · SE Field-321

Solutions Engineer role focused on selling Okta's Identity Platform, emphasizing its role in securing AI and enabling organizations to embrace AI safely. The role involves customer education, building sales presentations, and understanding customer technical needs related to cloud security and Identity and Access Management.

What you'd actually do

  1. Involved in all stages of the customer’s development lifecycle and using presentations, email, phone and social media to connect with customers
  2. Building sales presentations, product demonstrations, and educate customers (everyone from developers to product managers to C-level executives) on the best ways to cloud security technology.
  3. Empathising with customers and quickly discern their true technical needs by asking detailed and clarifying questions and presenting solutions that target those needs.
  4. Using your technical savviness and business insights. As a Sales Engineer at Okta, you will hone each of these skills by advising a diverse set of customers on what is possible using Okta’s Identity Platform.

Skills

Required

  • customer-facing role like consulting or support, ideally sales engineering
  • quickly communicate complex ideas around a technical topic, ideally on the fly at a whiteboard
  • Experience with at least one standard network security protocol (eg. OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, LDAP)
  • Experience in identity governance and administration (IGA): identity lifecycle management, access reviews, role-based access control (RBAC), and policy enforcement
  • Experience in Privilege Access Management (PAM): familiarity with concepts such as least privilege, just-in-time (JIT) access, session monitoring, and vaulting privileged credentials to secure critical assets
  • An understanding of core security concerns within a typical application (password hashing, SSL/TLS, encryption at rest, XSS, XSRF)
  • Excellent communication skills and an ability to articulate business value - Italian and English fluent
  • An ability to disperse knowledge to a highly skilled and experienced audience.
  • Enjoy travel and meeting customers - Typically 10-25%

Nice to have

  • Experience with Identity & Access Management, Single Sign-on and API-based solutions
  • Fluency in another European language
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS or a comparable field
  • Software Developer experience

What the JD emphasized

  • Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
  • Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI
  • Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era
  • This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes
  • We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence
  • This is an opportunity to do career-defining work
  • We're all in on this mission