Corporate IT Security Engineer

Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company bringing the benefits of space to the masses through advanced communications technology. We are building a global network of phased array ground stations that enable real-time, reliable communication for satellite missions such as national security, global connectivity, and disaster response. With a vertically integrated approach, Northwood designs, builds, and rapidly deploys scalable systems that power the next generation of space missions. If you like solving complex challenges and seeing your work deployed around the world with real impact, Northwood is the place to do it. Role: As Corporate IT Security Engineer, you will own the design and implementation of Northwood's identity architecture, ensuring that access to corporate systems, cloud environments, and sensitive government workloads is governed by robust, auditable, and least-privilege controls. This is a mid-level individual contributor role for an engineer with deep Okta expertise and a strong foundation in IAM architecture, SSO, and role-based access control across complex hybrid environments. You will serve as Northwood's IAM subject-matter expert, designing and maintaining the identity fabric that connects corporate users, contractors, and service accounts to the tools and systems they need — while enforcing the access boundaries required for CUI handling, ITAR compliance, and CMMC Level 2 certification. This role works in close partnership with the Security Engineering Lead, Security Operations Lead, and GRC Lead, and reports to the Head of Security. Responsibilities Identity Architecture & Okta Administration Own Northwood's Okta environment end-to-end, including tenant configuration, application integrations, lifecycle management, MFA policy enforcement, and directory synchronization. Design and maintain Northwood's SSO architecture, ensuring all corporate and government-facing applications are integrated into a consistent, auditable authentication framework. Develop and enforce adaptive authentication policies, step-up MFA configurations, and risk-based access controls aligned to the sensitivity of the systems being accessed. Manage Okta workf lows and automation to support user provisioning, deprovisioning, and access change processes across the employee and contractor lifecycle. Maintain Okta system health, audit logging, and integration reliability, ensuring identity telemetry flows into Northwood's SIEM for continuous monitoring. RBAC & Access Governance