About the Role
Okta is seeking a Senior AEM DevSecOps Engineer to oversee and automate AEM infrastructure, focusing on security, reliability, and compliance. This role bridges development and operations by integrating security into the CI/CD pipeline and managing complex identity and content delivery architectures to ensure platform resilience against modern threats.
Responsibilities
- Configure and manage AEM Cloud for Identity & Access Management.
- Manage and configure CDN (e.g., Cloudflare, Adobe-managed CDN) for performance optimization and DDoS mitigation.
- Implement and maintain Traffic Filter Rules and WAF configurations at the CDN level.
- Integrate security tools (SAST/DAST) and secrets detection into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab).
- Install and manage AEM author, publish, and dispatcher instances with a focus on security hardening, SSL automation, and ModSecurity.
- Monitor system performance and security logs using tools like Splunk.
- Regularly audit the platform and its integrations (Adobe Analytics, Target) for compliance with security policies and industry standards.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience administering and securing AEM environments.
- Strong understanding of Headless CMS security best practices, including API key management and JWT authentication.
- Expertise in managing CDNs and implementing DDoS mitigation and WAF rules.
- Proficiency in Apache Sling, JCR, OSGi, and web servers like Nginx or Apache.
- Hands-on experience with scripting (Python) and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, CircleCI).
- Experience with cloud-based AEM implementations (AEMaaCS, AWS/Azure).
- Proficiency in analyzing log files, thread dumps, and heap dumps.
Skills
- AEM Cloud
- CDN configuration
- DDoS mitigation
- WAF
- SAST/DAST
- Secrets detection
- CI/CD
- Jenkins
- GitLab
- Apache Sling
- JCR
- OSGi
- Nginx
- Apache
- Python
- CircleCI
- AEM as a Cloud Service
- AWS
- Azure
- Splunk
- ModSecurity
- GraphQL
- CORS
- NextJS
- React
- Angular
- Vercel Cloud
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
About the Company
- Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era.
- The Technology, Data, and Insights (TDI) team is on a mission to accelerate Okta’s scale.
- We are a group of innovative AEM DevSecOps engineers who prioritize security, reliability and automated compliance across our AEM infrastructure.
- We touch every weekly release cycle, and we are obsessed with creating a seamless, cutting-edge platform experience for every Okta customer and business user.
- 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.
- Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate.
- Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.
Equal Opportunity
- Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action 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.
- Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/.
- 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 complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
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