Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Kubernetes w/ active TS/SCI
Leads reliability and networking for highly available, secure cloud services in Okta’s Federal SRE organization. The role requires active TS/SCI clearance with full-scope polygraph, Federal/DoD compliance experience, and deep expertise in AWS networking, Terraform, observability, and automation.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, reliable network solutions with cross-functional teams.
- Maintain highly available cloud infrastructure at the edge of the identity platform.
- Collect and analyze data to identify root causes of network-specific events.
- Automate AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
- Improve efficiency, scalability, and engineering velocity through system changes.
Requirements
- Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance with full-scope polygraph.
- Experience with Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, including FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6); familiarity with SC2S/C2S.
- 8+ years of experience in cloud network engineering or a related role.
- In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP networking layers 2–7.
- Ability to implement highly available VPC networks and inter-VPC connectivity.
- Working knowledge of stateless and stateful firewalls, DNS, web application firewalls, and cloud load balancing.
- Deep knowledge of AWS Transit Gateway, Site-to-Site VPN, and Direct Connect.
- Experience with Apache httpd, nginx, Apache Tomcat, or similar technologies.
- Ability to troubleshoot with AWS VPC flow logs, CloudWatch metrics, and packet captures.
- Experience with Terraform and Git.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders.
Nice-to-haves
- Bash, Python, or Golang proficiency.
- Palo Alto next-generation virtual firewalls, including security policies, routing, and GlobalProtect.
- Debugging with gdb, strace, ltrace, tcpdump, or Wireshark.
- Docker and Kubernetes experience.
Compensation and benefits
- Annual base salary of $174,000–$238,000 USD.
- Equity, bonus, health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave, including PTO and parental leave.
Skills
AWS, Terraform, TCP/IP, Vpc, Aws Transit Gateway, Aws Direct Connect, Site-To-Site Vpn, DNS, Load Balancing, Firewalls, FedRAMP, Il6, Kubernetes, Docker, Python
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