Senior Cloud SRE Engineer — Federal, AWS & Kubernetes

Okta; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and maintain cloud platform services with a strong emphasis on automation, testing, and operational excellence. You will partner with software engineers to promote DevOps practices and ensure secure, reliable, and scalable environments.

You will contribute to infrastructure as code (Terraform), Python automation, and CI/CD pipelines, while leveraging Kubernetes for container orchestration and monitoring tools like Splunk,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering roles with a proven track record of delivering complex, large-scale infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and modernize scalable cloud environments and development tools while strictly enforcing security policies and standards for regulated environments.
• Partner with software engineering teams to champion DevOps and SRE best practices, deliver excellent internal customer service, and actively contribute to Agile workflows (e.g., demos, architecture sessions).
• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including network diagrams, runbooks, and disaster recovery procedures to ensure system reliability and knowledge sharing.

Skills

AWS multi-account governance

Terraform

Python scripting

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring & observability

Security & compliance

DevOps & SRE practices

Tools

GitLab

GitHub Actions

Splunk

CloudWatch

Grafana

Job description

Okta is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and maintain cloud platform services with a strong emphasis on automation, testing, and operational excellence. You will partner with software engineers to promote DevOps practices and ensure secure, reliable, and scalable environments.

You will contribute to infrastructure as code (Terraform), Python automation, and CI/CD pipelines, while leveraging Kubernetes for container orchestration and monitoring tools like Splunk,