Senior SRE - Kubernetes & Automation (TS/SCI) On-Site

Okta; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 147,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta in the Washington, DC area is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on Kubernetes with an active TS/SCI clearance. This on-site role supports large-scale cloud production systems and requires a self-starter mindset to automate repeated work and maintain high reliability for government-facing missions.

You will design, deploy, and monitor production infrastructure, participate in incident response, and push aggressive automation using AWS, Terraform/CloudFormation, and Helm.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance required (federal contracts).
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• Extensive Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and monitor production infrastructure for peak performance.
• Respond to production incidents and perform deep-dive troubleshooting to prevent recurrence.
• Develop automation scripts to reduce manual toil and improve monitoring.
• Support a large-scale, highly available on-call production environment.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

Go

Python

Bash

Ruby

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Java

Tomcat

Networking

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Tools

Helm

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Okta in the Washington, DC area is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on Kubernetes with an active TS/SCI clearance. This on-site role supports large-scale cloud production systems and requires a self-starter mindset to automate repeated work and maintain high reliability for government-facing missions.

You will design, deploy, and monitor production infrastructure, participate in incident response, and push aggressive automation using AWS, Terraform/CloudFormation, and Helm.