Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Networking w/ active TS/SCI
Posted by employer 7 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 4 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 10 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Okta is responsible for managing and optimizing large-scale cloud production systems, ensuring they operate with high reliability and performance. This role requires expertise in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and automation, alongside a strong background in Linux systems and scripting languages. Ideal candidates are seasoned professionals with an active TS/SCI clearance, well-versed in federal compliance standards, and capable of thriving in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment. The position is part of a dedicated TechOps team focused on delivering robust and secure identity solutions.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 4 months ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Okta's career page.
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Quick facts
- Is the Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Networking w/ active TS/SCI role remote?
- It's hybrid — Okta expects some on-site time in Maryland; Virginia; Washington, DC.
- What's the salary range?
- Okta lists $188,000–$235,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Networking w/ active TS/SCI role.
- Where is the role based?
- Okta is hiring for this position in Maryland; Virginia; Washington, DC.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Apache, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Docker, EC2.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Okta targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Networking w/ active TS/SCI role at Okta.
From the original posting
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
The Federal SRE Team
We are looking for an experienced Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta's Federal SRE team for the Emerging Products Group (EPG). Our mission is to build highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services that our customers can trust. We embrace an automation-first mindset and continuously invest in platform engineering, observability, and operational excellence to enable our engineering teams to move quickly and safely.
The Staff SRE, Classified Opportunity
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: Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Poly Compliance Expertise: Proven experience navigating Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6)
What You’ll Do
- 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
What You’ll Bring
Core 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
Extra Credit if you have the following 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
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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.
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