# Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Core IDaaS w/ active TS/SCI

**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** Washington, DC
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $188k – $259k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Terraform, Helm, Go, Kubernetes, AWS, FedRAMP, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, SRE
**Posted:** 2026-02-10

> Leads SRE for Core IDaaS in federal air-gapped environments, designing AWS infrastructure with Terraform/Helm/Go, managing incidents, and ensuring compliance (FedRAMP/IL6). Requires 6+ years SRE experience, TS/SCI clearance, and bachelor's degree.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- **Cloud & Air-Gapped Infrastructure:** Design and deliver AWS-based projects, primarily writing **Terraform, Helm, and Go**, and adapting deployments for secure federal air-gapped environments.
- **Incident Management:** Respond and remediate production incidents, performing deep-dive troubleshooting, driving rapid response, and implementing permanent preventive solutions.
- **Engineering Standards:** Drive high-quality code and operational rigor through design reviews, code reviews, attention to detail, and deep technical expertise.
- **Technical Leadership:** Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, enterprise-grade solutions.

## What You’ll Bring

### Core Qualifications
- **Security Clearance:** Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance.
- **Compliance Expertise:** Proven experience navigating Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically **FedRAMP** and **Impact Level 6 (IL6)**.
- **Domain Authority:** Deep expertise in architecting, deploying, and optimizing software within **federal air-gapped environments**.
- **Education:** Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (Master’s degree preferred).

### Technical Expertise
- **Site Reliability Engineering:** 6+ years of professional experience running production cloud workloads at scale. 4+ years of experience developing and troubleshooting web services on **Kubernetes** or similar orchestration layers.
- **Broad Database Knowledge:** Significant hands-on experience with both relational and non-relational datastores.
- **Interactive and Batch Workloads:** Demonstrated success delivering and maintaining both customer-facing interactive workloads and large-scale batch processing – ideally using data warehouse products such as Snowflake, Redshift, or Databricks.
- **Security & Engineering:** Strong foundational knowledge of network security (authentication/authorization) and a commitment to rigorous software engineering best practices.
- **Industry Experience:** Prior experience supporting or building mission-critical **Enterprise SaaS** platforms.

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