Security Requirement: Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance (Secret or Top Secret) to the extent required by U.S. Government contracts.
- The selected candidate may be subject to drug testing to the extent required by U.S. Government contracts.
What You’ll Do
- Infrastructure Leadership: Design, build, and oversee Okta’s production infrastructure, ensuring architectural integrity and peak performance.
- Incident Engineering: Act as a senior escalation point for production incidents, conducting deep-dive root cause analysis and implementing permanent, automated preventive solutions.
- Strategic Automation: Eliminate manual toil by developing sophisticated automation frameworks, evolving monitoring tools, and establishing rigorous technical documentation.
- System Resilience: Optimize a highly available, large-scale environment, ensuring "Always On" service delivery across complex network topologies.
- Mentorship: Provide technical guidance to the engineering organization, championing SRE best practices and a culture of self-education.
Core Requirements
- Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
- Compliance Expertise: Deep professional experience with FedRAMP and DoD IL6 frameworks.
- Education: B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience.
Technical Expertise
- Networking & Cloud Architecture: Mastery of AWS networking and security, including Transit Gateways, VPCs, Route Tables, ELBs, and NACLS.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced experience automating enterprise-scale infrastructure via Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Systems & Scripting: Expert-level Linux systems administration with proficiency in Go, Python, Bash, or Ruby.
- Production Support: Proven success managing Docker containers and Java-based stacks (Apache/Tomcat) in high-security production environments.
Protocol Knowledge: Solid understanding of networking concepts, IP protocols, and multi-cloud infrastructure.
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- Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.
What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta
- 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. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.
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