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OktaOktaWashington, DC

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Kubernetes w/ active TS/SCI

Senior SRE focused on Kubernetes-orchestrated cloud infrastructure for high-stakes national security environments. Manages reliability, incidents, automation, and scalability with active TS/SCI clearance and 5+ years Kubernetes experience.

188k – 235k
Hybrid5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Infrastructure Excellence: Design, deploy, and monitor Okta’s production infrastructure to ensure peak performance and reliability.
  • Incident Management: Serve as a frontline responder to production incidents, performing deep-dive troubleshooting and implementing permanent preventive solutions.
  • Aggressive Automation: Eliminate manual toil by developing automation scripts, evolving monitoring tools, and documenting technical workflows.
  • Scalability: Support a highly available, large-scale environment as part of an on-call rotation, ensuring "Always On" service delivery.

What You’ll Bring

Core Requirements

  • Clearance & Citizenship: Active TS/SCI clearance.
  • Federal Compliance: Deep familiarity with FedRAMP and DoD IL6 compliance standards.
  • Education: B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.

Technical Expertise

  • Kubernetes Mastery: 5+ years of experience building and operating workloads orchestrated by Kubernetes, including expert-level debugging of Helm values and charts.
  • Systems & Scripting: Strong Linux systems administration background with proficiency in Go, Python, Bash, or Ruby.
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Expertise in AWS services (EC2, ECS, KMS, CloudWatch) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
  • Production Support: Experience managing Docker containers and web applications (Java/Apache/Tomcat) in high-traffic live environments.

Networking: Solid understanding of networking concepts and IP protocols; experience with multi-cloud environments is a significant plus.

Skills

KubernetesHelmAWSTerraformDockerLinuxPythonGoBashFedRAMP

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