Senior IT Engineer

About The Role

Muon seeks a Senior IT Engineer to join our IT team. The ideal candidate is a seasoned identity and access management (IAM) professional with a strong background in Okta. This position is onsite and requires working in our San Jose, CA office five days a week.

Responsibilities

• Own authentication across the organization, including SaaS applications, cloud environments, on-premises infrastructure, and user endpoints.
• Architect and continuously evolve our Okta environment to fit our needs while retaining the flexibility required by a fast-growing company.
• Design authorization models for each system that grant access on a least-privilege, as-needed basis.
• Build and maintain access request workflows and access review systems to streamline provisioning and periodic access certifications.
• Define and enforce access restrictions that protect CUI, EAR, and ITAR-controlled data.
• Administer and integrate identity across Okta, Active Directory, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365.
• Manage identity and access across AWS, GCP, and Azure cloud platforms.
• Partner with IT, Security, and business teams to align identity and access management with compliance and operational requirements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT experience.
• Hands-on experience with Okta and identity management.
• Experience administering Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft 365.
• Experience with Google Workspace administration.
• Experience managing identity and access across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• A strong understanding of authentication, authorization, and access governance, including access requests and access reviews.
• A proactive, reliable, and able to work with minimal supervision attitude.

Nice-to-have Skills

• Experience supporting U.S. Government programs.
• Experience with CUI data handling.
• Experience with EAR/ITAR-controlled data handling.
• Active or eligible for a U.S. security clearance.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $165,000 - $184,000, plus a competitive equity grant and comprehensive benefits package. Final compensation will be determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location as assessed during the interview process.