Berlin / UK

The role

This role involves joining our Service Delivery team and collaborating with the largest and most exciting organizations within the UK and DACH on the design, planning and implementation of IAM solutions.

Our Service Delivery team has built a stellar reputation for building exciting, innovative and professional digital products, apps and services. For IAM focused solutions, we build with Okta and have emerged as a leading partner, including recognition as “Okta Premier Partner” and "Okta Technical Champion".

The services team you will join brings together experts in the fields of Product Design, Software Engineering and Solution Architecture, with extensive senior experience throughout. The depth and breadth of complementary skills gives us the edge.

Moreover, the carefully curated Distology cybersecurity portfolio means that you are working closely with only leading and disruptive technologies across a wide range of use cases.

Distology

We specialise in representing new and emerging cloud-based cyber security solutions across EMEA and we’re great at breathing new life into well-established vendors looking to reboot their presence too! We’re a specialist IT distributor with a difference – we sell cybersecurity solutions and can also play an active role in the design, implementation and support.

How do we know we’re doing the right things? Led by Role Model & Woman of the Year 2021 (CRN Women in Channel Awards), Hayley Roberts, we’ve also won awards for our outstanding levels of service and support to our channel reseller partners and vendor technology providers, including CRN’s Distributor of the Year 2022, CRN’s Industry achievement award 2022 and OKTA’s EMEA distributor 2022.

Our success is down to the dedicated, passionate, and talented individuals within our team; does that sound like you? We need you to be aligned and engaged with our key values to be successful in this role: positive, innovative, a trusted expert, ambitious and agile in your approach to the role.

Is this role right for you?

Distology is looking to build out our Services delivery capabilities around a core set of individuals who can lead on the approach, techniques and overall direction that we take for our engagements. It is a hugely influential role where you are empowered to shape a core tenet of the overall company vision as well as enhance your own professional development. Our goal is to become recognised in our field as industry experts and also be known as community champions via events, networking and knowledge sharing.

We invite you to demonstrate how you embody our company values and how you will work collaboratively within the whole Distology team. We offer a super supportive, vibrant, fast-paced and varied workplace in return!

Location

For this role, we are looking for someone to be based at either our Berlin office or in the UK.

What we expect you to bring to the role:

• 5+ years professional experience as a technology consultant, architect or systems integrator.
• 2+ years experience planning, designing and implementing Okta Workforce solutions for a large organisation
• 3+ years professional experience in the field of Identity and Access Management
• Deep understanding of core Okta WIAM features including SSO, provisioning, user lifecycle operations, federation
• Working knowledge of OIDC and SAML specification, digital signatures, certificates management and session management
  
• Experience with Active Directory based Integrations
• Good understanding of REST APIs and ability to use Postman
• Strong experience with common web access management domain related skills (e.g. understanding the concepts of cookies, sessions, header/cookie variables, HTTP traffic flow/analysis, etc.)
• Familiarity with protocol level troubleshooting a plus (LDAP, OIDC, SAML, SCIM)
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, including knowledge of debugging, monitoring, logging and tracer tools
• Experience with roles based access control techniques
• Good knowledge/skills in architecting Access Management/SSO/Federation systems in a large organization
• Familiarity with orchestration, workflow and other “Nocode” or “Lowcode” platforms are an advantage
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to effectively translate and present technology solutions in business or management terms
• Workshop and facilitation skills (or interest in) would be a big advantage
• English (and ideally German) language required

Our offer

We value our people above everything, so the following really speaks to that:

• Be treated like an intelligent and valued person, whose ideas and passion are welcomed
• 25 days holidays (excluding bank holidays) increasing with tenure with the benefit to be able to buy and sell additional days.
• Investment in your health & wellbeing, physical, mental and financial.
• Company bonus scheme.
• Learning & development opportunities – both in sales/account management and technology
• Flexible and Hybrid working.
• Company values awards
• Service awards for tenure
• Leading laptop (choose your spec)
• Professional Development plan
• Regular time for R&D on new tech and innovations, out with commercial engagements
• IAM Training platform and courses worth €2.500, including Industry recognised certification paths as part of your weekly routine

We embrace hiring individuals from all backgrounds, because it makes our business stronger, we want to work in an enriched environment, and we want to celebrate everyone that joins our team! Distology will grow and develop with our diverse group of employees. So, if you share in our values then, we would love to hear from you.

Our recruitment process

• PART A: 60 mins - 1:1 with European Services Director to talk about your experience, goals, ambitions, consultancy and leadership style. We’ll also elaborate on company vision, performance, growth plans and articulate how this role is positioned in this context

• PART B: 90-120 mins you are invited to showcase your preferred IAM solution and demonstrate key features, pros and cons in your own words and perspective. We will also run a mock kick off/discovery workshop together and finish with general technical discussion.