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Okta · 10 hours ago

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Edge - TS/SCI

Washington, DC

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$159K/yr - $219K/yr

Okta is The World’s Identity Company, focused on providing secure access and authentication solutions. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will lead the evolution of large-scale production systems, ensuring reliability and performance while supporting critical national security missions.

CRMEnterprise SoftwareIdentity ManagementIT InfrastructureManagement Information SystemsSoftwareWeb Development

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Design, build, and oversee Okta’s production infrastructure, ensuring architectural integrity and peak performance

Act as a senior escalation point for production incidents, conducting deep-dive root cause analysis and implementing permanent, automated preventive solutions

Eliminate manual toil by developing sophisticated automation frameworks, evolving monitoring tools, and establishing rigorous technical documentation

Optimize a highly available, large-scale environment, ensuring 'Always On' service delivery across complex network topologies

Provide technical guidance to the engineering organization, championing SRE best practices and a culture of self-education

Qualification

AWS networkingSecurityInfrastructure as CodeLinux systems administrationDocker containers managementFedRAMP complianceDoD IL6 frameworksGo programmingPython programmingBash scriptingRuby programmingRoot cause analysisAutomation frameworksMonitoring toolsNetworking conceptsIP protocolsMulti-cloud infrastructureTechnical mentorshipTechnical documentation

Required

Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

Deep professional experience with FedRAMP and DoD IL6 frameworks

B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience

Mastery of AWS networking and security, including Transit Gateways, VPCs, Route Tables, ELBs, and NACLS

Advanced experience automating enterprise-scale infrastructure via Terraform or CloudFormation

Expert-level Linux systems administration with proficiency in Go, Python, Bash, or Ruby

Proven success managing Docker containers and Java-based stacks (Apache/Tomcat) in high-security production environments

Solid understanding of networking concepts, IP protocols, and multi-cloud infrastructure

Benefits

Health, dental and vision insurance

401(k)

Flexible spending account

Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)

Company

Okta

Glassdoor3.6

Okta is a management platform that secures critical resources from cloud to ground for workforce and customers.

Founded in 2009

San Francisco, California, USA

5001-10000 employees

http://www.okta.com

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$1.23B

Key Investors

Sequoia CapitalAndreessen Horowitz

2020-06-08Post Ipo Equity· $1B

2017-04-06IPO

2017-03-30Secondary Market

Leadership Team

Todd McKinnon

CEO & Co-Founder

Frederic Kerrest

Vice-Chairman & Co-Founder

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