Staff TDI Site Reliability Engineer, Okta Federal
Staff SRE on Okta's TDI team building and operating secure, air-gapped cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring for national security missions. Requires 7+ years SRE/DevOps experience, deep AWS and automation skills, and active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance.
About the job
What you’ll be doing
- Operate and maintain enterprise grade solutions within air-gapped environments.
- Build, run, and monitor development tools, pipelines, and infrastructure with a security-first mindset.
- Operate autonomously within secure facilities.
- Maintain SLOs/SLIs for workloads with no dependency on external monitoring or SaaS tooling.
- Own runbooks and incident response procedures tailored to limited external escalation paths.
- Participate in POA&M remediation and support annual/recurring Authority to Operate activities.
- Support and run mission critical services depended on by product teams.
- Deliver excellent internal customer service and advocate for SRE and DevOps practices across teams.
- Build and operate CI/CD pipelines that function without internet connectivity.
What you’ll bring to the role
- 7+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Automation Engineer, or Systems Engineer with a track record of delivering complex infrastructure projects at scale.
- Experience with container orchestration and runtime environments, including EKS, ECS Fargate, and general container usage.
- Proficient in infrastructure automation using Terraform and developing automation tools with Python, while leveraging secure software development practices.
- Experience with monitoring tools, especially Splunk, CloudWatch, and the Grafana stack.
- Experience with general networking concepts, such as BGP and IPsec management, and has leveraged AWS networking services, including VPCs, TGWs, and VPC endpoints.
- Security Clearance: Active U.S. TS/SCI with polygraph.
Additional requirements
- The selected candidate may be subject to drug testing to the extent required by U.S. Government contracts.
Extra credit
- Knowledgeable in Linux system administration.
- Experience in secure and compliant environments (e.g., FedRAMP), with understanding of FIPS, STIG, and data boundary implementations.
- Working experience operating tools and services in air gapped environments.
Skills
SRE, DevOps, Terraform, Python, EKS, ECS, Fargate, Splunk, CloudWatch, Grafana, Aws Networking, Vpc, Tgw, BGP, Ipsec
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