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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
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Staff Site Reliability Engineer
We are looking for an experienced Staff BT Site Reliability Engineer to join our Business Technology team to build, improve, and maintain our cloud platform services. The Site Reliability Engineering team builds foundational back-end infrastructure services and tooling for Okta’s corporate teams. We enable teams to build infrastructure at scale and automate their software reliably and predictably. SREs are team players and innovators who build and operate technology using best practices and an agile mindset.
We are looking for a smart, innovative, and passionate engineer for this role, someone who is interested in designing and implementing complex cloud-based infrastructure. This is a lean and agile team, and the ideal candidate welcomes the challenge of building in a dynamic and ever changing environment. They enjoy seeing their designs run at scale with automation, testing, and an excellent operational mindset. If you exemplify the ethics of, "If you have to do something more than once, automate it," we want to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Build and run development tools, pipelines, and infrastructure with a security-first mindset
- Actively participate in Agile ceremonies, write stories, and support team members through demos, knowledge sharing, and architecture sessions
- Promote and apply best practices for building secure, scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, network diagrams, runbooks, and procedures
- Designing, building, running, and monitoring Okta's IT infrastructure and cloud services
- Driving initiatives to evolve our current cloud platforms to increase efficiency and keep it in line with current security standards and best practices
- Recommend, develop, implement, and manage appropriate policy, standards, processes, and procedural updates
- Working with software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
- Create and maintain centralized technical processes, including container and image management
- Provide excellent customer service to our internal users and be an advocate for SRE services and DevOps practices
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience as a SRE, DevOps, Systems Engineer, or equivalent
- Demonstrated ability to develop complex applications for cloud infrastructure at scale and deliver projects on schedule and within budget
- Proficient in managing AWS multi-account environments and AWS authentication, governance, and using org management suite, including, but not limited to, AWS Orgs, AWS IAM, AWS Identity Center, and Stacksets
- Proficient with automating systems and infrastructure via Terraform
- Proficient in developing applications running on AWS or other cloud infrastructure resources, including compute, storage, networking, and virtualization
- Proficient with Git and building deployment pipeline using commercial tools, especially Github Actions
- Proficient with developing tooling and automation using Python
- Proficient with AWS container based workloads and concepts, especially EKS, ECS, and ECR.
- Experience with monitoring tools, especially Splunk, Cloudwatch, and Grafana
- Experience with reliability engineering concepts and security best practices on public cloud platforms
- Experience with image creation and management, especially for container and EC2 based workloads
- Experience with Github Actions Runner Controller self-hosted runners
- Knowledgeable with Linux system administration skills
- Knowledgeable of configuration management tools, such as Ansible and SSM
- Good communication skills, with the ability to influence others and communicate complex technical concepts to different audiences
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.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
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What We Do
Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
