Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Networking w/ active TS/SCI
About the Role
The Federal SRE Team is seeking an experienced Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta's Federal SRE team for the Emerging Products Group (EPG). The mission is to build highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services that customers can trust. The team embraces an automation-first mindset and continuously invests in platform engineering, observability, and operational excellence to enable engineering teams to move quickly and safely.
This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges at scale, building automation, and improving the reliability of production systems. You will serve as a technical leader within the EPG SRE organization, partnering closely with software engineers, architects, and product teams to design, build, and operate world-class cloud services.
The ideal candidate exemplifies the philosophy of "if you have to do it more than once, automate it" and possesses a strong passion for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and software engineering.
Security Clearance & Compliance
- Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Poly
- Proven experience navigating Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6)
Responsibilities
- Work with various teams to design and implement scalable, and reliable network solutions
- Maintain a highly available cloud infrastructure edge for the Okta identity platform
- Collect and analyze data to identify root causes for network-specific events
- Automate AWS infrastructure with Terraform
- Evolve the system by introducing changes to improve efficiency, scalability, and velocity
Requirements
- Clearance & Citizenship: Active TS/SCI clearance with a full scope poly
- Federal Compliance: Proven experience navigating Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6), with familiarity in SC2S/C2S
- 8+ years experience in a Cloud Network Engineer role or related
- Demonstrated in-depth understanding of TCP/IP networking stack (layer 2 through 7)
- Ability to implement a highly available VPC network, including inter-vpc connectivity
- Working knowledge of stateless and stateful firewalls
- Familiar with DNS, web-application firewalls, and various load balancing methods available in the cloud
- Deep knowledge of AWS network concepts such as Transit Gateway, Site-to-Site VPN, and Direct Connect
- In-depth understanding of Load Balancing, DNS and other networking protocols
- Solid understanding and experience with Apache httpd, nginx, Apache Tomcat, or similar
- Ability to troubleshoot network issues using AWS VPC flow logs and Cloudwatch metrics, alongside standard packet captures
- Experience working with Terraform
- Proficiency in Bash, Python, Golang, or similar is a bonus
- Experienced with git
- Able to collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders
Preferred Skills
- Working knowledge of Palo Alto next-gen virtual firewalls, implementation of firewalls, as well as configuration of security policies, routing, and global protect
- Experience debugging software using gdb, strace, ltrace, tcpdump, Wireshark, etc.
- Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes
Pay
Annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington: $174,000 USD - $238,000 USD. Actual base salary depends on factors such as skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. Okta also 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 applicable plans and policies.
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