Joblaze summary

The Staff TDI Site Reliability Engineer at Okta Federal focuses on enhancing and maintaining cloud platform services critical for national security missions. This role requires expertise in container orchestration, infrastructure automation with Terraform, and a strong security-first mindset, particularly in air-gapped environments. Ideal candidates have over seven years of experience in SRE or related fields, along with an active U.S. TS/SCI security clearance. The position is part of a team dedicated to delivering reliable infrastructure solutions while adhering to stringent compliance standards.

Joblaze insights

Listed about 3 months ago — first seen on Joblaze July 18, 2026. Last confirmed on Okta's careers page November 11, 2026.
This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Okta: Washington, DC.
Salary band is in line with the typical range for DevOps/SRE roles (median ~$165,000).
Starts above 12% of 33 comparable staff devops/sre roles in United States that list Python we track (median $200,000 across 20 companies). See Python salary trends
Python appears in 57.4% of 68 comparable staff devops/sre roles in United States; Splunk appears in 1.5% of 68 comparable staff devops/sre roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Staff TDI Site Reliability Engineer, Okta Federal role remote?: It's hybrid — Okta expects some on-site time in Washington, DC.
What's the salary range?: Okta lists $174,000–$239,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 7 years of relevant experience for this Staff TDI Site Reliability Engineer, Okta Federal role.
Where is the role based?: Okta is hiring for this position in Washington, DC.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: BGP, CloudWatch, ECS Fargate, EKS, Grafana, IPsec.
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 TDI Site Reliability Engineer, Okta Federal role at Okta.

From the original posting

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

Okta’s Technology, Data & Intelligence (TDI) team delivers the systems, tools, and services that power internal operations across the company. From core infrastructure to enterprise platforms, we partner across functions to drive scale, reliability, and innovation through technology.

The Staff Site Reliability Engineer Opportunity
Okta Federal, Inc. is looking for an experienced Staff TDI Site Reliability Engineer to help build, improve, and maintain our cloud platform services that help Okta support the most sensitive national security missions. The Site Reliability Engineering team delivers foundational infrastructure capabilities that enable corporate engineering teams to operate securely, reliably, and at scale. You’ll play a key role in designing and implementing complex cloud-based engineering enablement systems, while ensuring compliance with strict government requirements.

What you’ll be doing

Operate and maintain enterprise grade solutions within air-gapped environments.

Build, run, and monitor development tools, pipelines, and infrastructure with a security-first mindset.

Operate autonomously within secure facilities.

Maintain SLOs/SLIs for workloads with no dependency on external monitoring or SaaS tooling.

Own runbooks and incident response procedures tailored to limited external escalation paths.

Participate in POA&M remediation and support annual/recurring Authority to Operate activities.

Support and run mission critical services depended on by product teams

Deliver excellent internal customer service and advocate for SRE and DevOps practices across teams.

Build and operate CI/CD pipelines that function without internet connectivity.

What you’ll bring to the role

7+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Automation Engineer, or Systems Engineer with a track record of delivering complex infrastructure projects at scale.

Experience with container orchestration and runtime environments, including EKS, ECS Fargate, and general container usage.

Proficient in infrastructure automation using Terraform and developing automation tools with Python, while leveraging secure software development practices.

Experience with monitoring tools, especially Splunk, CloudWatch, and the Grafana stack.

Experience with general networking concepts, such as BGP and IPsec management, and has leveraged AWS networking services, including VPCs, TGWs, and VPC endpoints.

Security Clearance: Active U.S. TS/SCI with polygraph.

Additional requirements

The selected candidate may be subject to drug testing to the extent required by U.S. Government contracts.

And extra credit if you have experience in the following

Knowledgeable in Linux system administration.

Experience in secure and compliant environments (e.g., FedRAMP), with understanding of FIPS, STIG, and data boundary implementations.

Working experience operating tools and services in air gapped environments.

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#LI-hybrid

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.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between:

$174,000—$239,000 USD

The Okta Experience

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Staff TDI Site Reliability Engineer, Okta Federal

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