# Senior Site Reliability Engineer, TCore (FedRamp)

**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $174k – $267k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** AWS, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Python, Go, Bash, TCP/IP, Vpc, Firewalls, DNS, Load Balancing, Git
**Posted:** 2026-05-18

> Staff SRE on the TCore team responsible for designing and operating Okta's global network infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and security of cloud edge and internal networks. Requires 8+ years in cloud networking with deep AWS/GCP expertise and automation skills.

## Job Description

## What you’ll be doing

- 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 and/or Chef
- Evolve the system by introducing changes to improve efficiency, scalability, and velocity

## What you’ll bring to the role

- 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/GCP network concepts such as Transit Gateway / Network Connectivity Center (NCC), Site-to-Site VPN / HA VPN, and Direct Connect / Cloud Interconnect
- Ability to troubleshoot network issues using AWS VPC flow logs and Cloudwatch metrics, as well as GCP VPC Flow Logs / Cloud Logging, alongside standard packet captures.
- Experience working with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet or similar automation tools
- Proficiency in Bash, Python, Golang, or similar. Experienced with git
- Able to collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders
- Willingness to work on-call

## Nice to have

- Experience working in a security-oriented cloud environment
- Working knowledge of Palo Alto next-gen virtual firewalls, implementation of firewalls, as well as configuration of security policies, routing, and Global Protect.
- Experience with GCP-specific advanced architecture like Shared VPC topologies, Cloud Router BGP configurations, and Network Connectivity Center (NCC).

## Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between $194,000–$267,000 USD. For candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington: $174,000–$239,000 USD. 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).

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