Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Security Engineering Group

Okta; Toronto; On-site; CAD 139,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer in the Security Engineering Group. This high-impact role involves designing and maintaining robust security solutions while ensuring the reliability of cloud infrastructure. You'll collaborate across teams to enhance security measures and automate processes, all within a dynamic and innovative environment. With a focus on continuous improvement, you'll be at the forefront of transforming security practices and delivering exceptional results. If you are passionate about cloud security and eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

RRSP with Match

Paid Leave

Telemedicine

Healthcare Spending

Flexible Work Environment

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in architecting and running complex cloud infrastructure.
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD principles and Linux fundamentals.
• Experience with security tools and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design and monitor Okta's production infrastructure.
• Lead initiatives to strengthen security posture.
• Respond to production incidents and improve reliability.

Skills

AWS

Linux

Security Best Practices

CI/CD Principles

Troubleshooting

Automation

Operational Tooling Languages (Ruby, Python, Go)

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Tools

Chef

Terraform

Nessus

Qualys

Splunk

Job description

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Security Engineering Group

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Security Engineering Group

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Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

Okta’s Workforce Identity Cloud Security Engineering group is looking for an experienced and passionate Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join a team focused on designing and developing Security solutions to harden our cloud infrastructure. We embrace innovation and pave the way to transform bright ideas into excellent security solutions that help run large-scale, critical infrastructure. We encourage you to prescribe defense-in-depth measures, industry security standards and enforce the principle of least privilege to help take our Security posture to the next level. Our Infrastructure Security team has a niche skill-set that balances Security domain expertise with the ability to design, implement, rollout infrastructure across multiple cloud environments without adding friction to product functionality or performance. We are responsible for the ever-growing need to improve our customer safety and privacy by providing security services that are coupled with the core Okta product.

This is a high-impact role in a security-centric, fast-paced organization that is poised for massive growth and success. You will act as a liaison between the Security org and the Engineering org to build technical leverage and influence the security roadmap. You will focus on engineering security aspects of the systems used across our services. Join us and be part of a company that is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.

Bring all the passion and dedication along and there’s no telling what you could accomplish!

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing, building, running, and monitoring Okta's production infrastructure
• Be an evangelist for security best practices and also lead initiatives/projects to strengthen our security posture for critical infrastructure
• Responding to production incidents and determining how we can prevent them in the future
• Triaging and troubleshooting complex production issues to ensure reliability and performance
• Identifying and automating manual processes
• Continuously evolving our monitoring tools and platform
• Promoting and applying best practices for building scalable and reliable services across engineering
• Developing and maintaining technical documentation, runbooks, and procedures
• Supporting a 24x7 online environment as part of an on-call rotation
• Be a technical SME for a team that designs and builds Okta's production infrastructure, focusing on security at scale in the cloud.
  
  

What You’ll Bring To The Role

• Are always willing to go the extra mile: see a problem, fix the problem.
• Are passionate about encouraging the development of engineering peers and leading by example.
• Have experience automating, securing, and running large-scale production IAM, containerized services in AWS (EC2, ECS, KMS, Kinesis, RDS), GCP (GKE, GCE) or other cloud providers.
• Have deep knowledge of CI/CD principles, Linux fundamentals, OS hardening, networking concepts, and IP protocols.
• Have a deep understanding and familiarity with configuration management tools like Chef and Terraform.
• Have expert-level abilities in operational tooling languages such as Ruby, Python, Go and shell, and use of source control.
• Experience with industry-standard security tools like Nessus, Qualys, OSQuery, Splunk, etc.
• Experience with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and secrets management
  
  

Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Qualities:

• 6+ years of experience architecting and running complex AWS or other cloud networking infrastructure resources
• 6+ years of experience with Chef and Terraform
• Unflappable troubleshooting skills
• Proven experience in collaborating across teams to deliver complex horizontal projects
• Strong Linux understanding and experience.
• Strong security background and knowledge.
• BS In computer science (or equivalent experience).
  
  

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!

• Experience conducting threat assessments, and assessing vulnerabilities in a high-availability setting.
• Understand MySQL, including replication and clustering strategies, and are familiar with data stores such as DynamoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
• Experience with US Govt Federal and DoD compliance requirements - FedRAMP, IL
  
  

Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/can.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:

$139,000—$209,000 CAD

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta
  
  

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.

Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Computer and Network Security, Software Development, and IT Services and IT Consulting

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