Senior Staff SRE - TS/SCI | Federal Cloud & Automation

Okta; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta is seeking an experienced Staff Site Reliability Engineer for the Federal SRE team within the Emerging Products Group. You will lead design and operations of highly reliable cloud services, emphasizing automation, observability, and secure infrastructure for federal customers.

Ideal candidates will have TS/SCI clearance, IL6 familiarity, and hands-on experience with AWS networking, Terraform, and container technologies.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Poly required.
• 8+ years experience in a Cloud Network Engineer role or related.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, reliable network solutions for Okta Federal SRE.
• Maintain a highly available cloud infrastructure edge for the Okta identity platform.
• Collect and analyze data to identify root causes for network events.
• Automate AWS infrastructure with Terraform.
• Evolve the system to improve efficiency, scalability, and velocity.

Skills

Clearance TS/SCI

FedRAMP IL6

Cloud networking

TCP/IP networking

VPC networking

Terraform

Bash

Python

Golang

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Load balancing

DNS/WAF

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Okta is seeking an experienced Staff Site Reliability Engineer for the Federal SRE team within the Emerging Products Group. You will lead design and operations of highly reliable cloud services, emphasizing automation, observability, and secure infrastructure for federal customers.

Ideal candidates will have TS/SCI clearance, IL6 familiarity, and hands-on experience with AWS networking, Terraform, and container technologies.