# Staff Site Reliability Engineer

**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA, Chicago, IL, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Washington, DC
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $174k – $267k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Terraform, chef, AWS, Linux, TCP/IP, http, DNS, load balancing, apache, nginx, tomcat, Bash, Python, Go, Git
**Posted:** 2026-07-21

> Build and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure edge and CI/CD platforms for Okta's identity platform. Requires 8+ years of cloud operations and Linux systems experience, strong networking knowledge, and proficiency with automation tools like Terraform.

## Job Description

## What you’ll be doing

- Maintain a highly available cloud infrastructure edge for the Okta identity platform
- 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 of operations experience configuring, deploying, monitoring and troubleshooting applications and infrastructure in the cloud
- 8+ years administering or operating within a Linux environment, strong experience using Linux based tooling, and ability to debug systems level problems
- In-depth understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP, Load Balancing, DNS and other networking protocols
- Solid understanding and experience with Apache httpd, nginx, Apache Tomcat, or similar
- Strong problem solving and debugging skills coupled with a desire to take on ownership and responsibility
- Proficiency in Bash, Python, Golang, or similar. Experienced with git
- Experience working with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet or similar automation tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Willingness to work on-call

## Nice-to-haves

- Experience working in a security-oriented cloud environment
- Experience debugging software using gdb, strace, ltrace, tcpdump, Wireshark, etc.
- Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with PKI / certificate management

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