Staff SRE, Secure Cloud Platforms (TS/SCI)

Okta; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta Federal, Inc. is seeking an experienced Staff SRE to build, improve, and maintain our air‑gapped cloud platform services supporting sensitive national security missions.

The SRE team delivers foundational infrastructure enabling secure, reliable, scalable operations across product teams. You will operate and maintain enterprise-grade solutions inside secure facilities, build CI/CD tools with a security‑first mindset, and own runbooks, incident response, and POA&M remediation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of SRE/DevOps or related experience delivering complex infrastructure at scale.
• Experience with container orchestration (EKS, ECS Fargate) and container usage.
• Active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain air‑gapped enterprise-grade solutions.
• Build, run, and monitor pipelines and infrastructure with a security-first mindset.
• Own runbooks and incident response procedures for limited external escalation paths.
• Support and participate in POA&M remediation and Authority to Operate activities.
• Deliver excellent internal customer service and advocate for SRE/DevOps practices across teams.
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines that function without internet connectivity.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Terraform

Python automation

Kubernetes (EKS/ECS)

Monitoring (Splunk/CloudWatch/Grafana)

Networking (BGP/IPsec)

Security clearance TS/SCI with poly

Air-gapped environments

CI/CD pipelines (air-gapped)

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Okta Federal, Inc. is seeking an experienced Staff SRE to build, improve, and maintain our air‑gapped cloud platform services supporting sensitive national security missions.

The SRE team delivers foundational infrastructure enabling secure, reliable, scalable operations across product teams. You will operate and maintain enterprise-grade solutions inside secure facilities, build CI/CD tools with a security‑first mindset, and own runbooks, incident response, and POA&M remediation.