Staff Site Reliability Engineer — Secure Cloud Platform

Okta; Washington (Washington County); Hybrid; USD 174,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Health insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Okta Federal, Inc. seeks an experienced Staff SRE to design, build, and maintain cloud platform services supporting national security missions. You will work in air-gapped environments, delivering secure, scalable infrastructure and pipelines that operate without internet access.

You will own runbooks, incident response, and ongoing compliance activities while collaborating with product teams and ensuring high reliability and security across systems. A TS/SCI clearance is required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as an SRE/DevOps/Cloud Engineer or similar.
• Experience with container orchestration (EKS, ECS Fargate) and runtime environments.
• Proficient in Terraform and Python for automation, with secure SDLC practices.
• Experience with monitoring tools (Splunk, CloudWatch, Grafana).
• Solid networking knowledge: VPCs, IPsec, BGP; AWS networking services.
• Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI with polygraph.
• Drug testing may be required per U.S. Government contracts.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain enterprise-grade solutions in air-gapped environments.
• Build, run, and monitor development tools, pipelines, and infrastructure with a security-first mindset.
• Operate autonomously within secure facilities.
• Maintain SLOs/SLIs with no external dependencies for monitoring or SaaS.
• Own runbooks and incident response for limited escalation paths.
• Support POA&M remediation and Authority to Operate activities.
• Deliver excellent internal customer service and advocate SRE/DevOps practices.
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines that function without internet connectivity.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Container orchestration

Terraform

Python

Monitoring tooling

AWS networking

Security clearance TS/SCI

CI/CD pipelines

Air-gapped environments

Tools

EKS

ECS Fargate

Splunk

CloudWatch

Grafana

IPsec

VPC

BGP

Job description

Okta Federal, Inc. seeks an experienced Staff SRE to design, build, and maintain cloud platform services supporting national security missions. You will work in air-gapped environments, delivering secure, scalable infrastructure and pipelines that operate without internet access.

You will own runbooks, incident response, and ongoing compliance activities while collaborating with product teams and ensuring high reliability and security across systems. A TS/SCI clearance is required.