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 Excellence: Design, deploy, and monitor Okta’s production infrastructure to ensure peak performance and reliability.
- Incident Management: Serve as a frontline responder to production incidents, performing deep-dive troubleshooting and implementing permanent preventive solutions.
- Aggressive Automation: Eliminate manual toil by developing automation scripts, evolving monitoring tools, and documenting technical workflows.
- Scalability: Support a highly available, large-scale environment as part of an on-call rotation, ensuring "Always On" service delivery.
Core Requirements
- Clearance & Citizenship: Active TS/SCI clearance.
- Federal Compliance: Deep familiarity with FedRAMP and DoD IL6 compliance standards.
- Education: B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
Technical Expertise
- Kubernetes Mastery: 5+ years of experience building and operating workloads orchestrated by Kubernetes, including expert-level debugging of Helm values and charts.
- Systems & Scripting: Strong Linux systems administration background with proficiency in Go, Python, Bash, or Ruby.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Expertise in AWS services (EC2, ECS, KMS, CloudWatch) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
- Production Support: Experience managing Docker containers and web applications (Java/Apache/Tomcat) in high-traffic live environments.
Networking: Solid understanding of networking concepts and IP protocols; experience with multi-cloud environments is a significant plus.
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- Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. 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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