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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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The SRE Team
We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join Okta’s Federal Technical Operations (TechOps) Team. At Okta our motto is "Always On", and nowhere do we embrace that more than in Technical Operations. We strive to build the most reliable and performant systems on the planet through the skillful use of automation. We've created an integrated system that securely connects any person via any device to the technologies they need to do their most significant work.
The SRE Federal Opportunity
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working on large-scale cloud production systems for the public sector and helping them secure their identity. If you like to be challenged and are passionate about solving problems at scale with automation, testing, and tuning, then we would love to hear from you.
The ideal candidate is someone who exemplifies the ethics of, “If you have to do something more than once, automate it,” and who can rapidly self-educate on new concepts and tools.
What you’ll be doing
- Design, build and maintain Okta's Government production infrastructure and tooling
- Respond to production incidents and determine preventive solutions
- Troubleshoot complex reliability and performance issues
- Collaborate on modernizing existing workloads, aligning them with our continuous platform improvements.
- Automate manual processes, evolve our monitoring tools, and develop technical documentation
- Contribute to our mission of building a more robust, elegant, and scalable system through the creation of innovative tools, platform capabilities, and comprehensive documentation.
- Support a highly available and large scale online environment as part of an on-call rotation
What you’ll bring to the role
- US Person Status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, or Asylee)*
- Experience with Federal and DoD compliance requirements - FedRAMP, IL
- Background using and supporting Splunk, Zabbix, Wavefront, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, or related tools
- Passionate about automation
- Experience in chatops tooling, Slack automation, PagerDuty integration
- Background with Linux systems administration and Strong proficiency in multiple programming languages, particularly Golang, Python, Ruby or Java.
- Experience supporting Docker containers and web applications running on Java / Apache / Tomcat in a live production environment
- Strong expertise with production services in AWS such as EC2, ECS, KMS, Kinesis, CloudWatch
- Previous experience with automating systems and infrastructure via Ansible, Chef or Terraform
- Solid understanding of networking concepts and IP protocols
- Experience with multi-cloud infrastructure is desired
- Computer Science (plus) or relevant experience
*This position requires the ability to access Impact Level 4 (IL4) data, as defined by the Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.
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What you can look forward to as an Full-Time Okta employee!
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/.
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