Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Security Engineering Group

Okta, Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 139,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in identity management is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to enhance security in their cloud infrastructure. This role requires expertise in AWS, Terraform, and security best practices, focusing on reliability and performance in a critical production environment.

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision insurance

RRSP with a match

Healthcare spending

Paid leave including PTO and parental leave

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience architecting and running AWS or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge in operational practices and security.
• Experience with automating large-scale production systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and monitor Okta's production infrastructure.
• Lead initiatives to strengthen security posture.
• Triaging and troubleshooting production issues.

Skills

Automation

Troubleshooting

Security Best Practices

CI/CD Principles

Networking Concepts

Operational Tooling Languages

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Tools

Chef

Terraform

Linux

Job description

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Security Engineering Group

Toronto, Canada

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
• Proven experience in collaborating across teams to deliver complex horizontal projects
• Strong Linux understanding and experience.
• Strong security background and knowledge.

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

#LI-Hybrid

#LI-TM

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:

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

#LI-Hybrid

#LI-TM

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
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• 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.

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Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. More than 19,300 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.

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