Staff SRE with TS/SCI Clearance - Cloud & Automation

Okta; Virginia Beach (VA); Hybrid; USD 174,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta's Federal SRE team seeks a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate reliable cloud services for the Federal sector. You will partner with software engineers, architects, and product teams to deliver scalable, secure platforms.

The role emphasizes automation, observability, and operational excellence. A TS/SCI clearance with poly is required, along with DoD compliance familiarity. Hybrid US-based work is supported.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with a full scope poly.
• Federal and DoD compliance experience, FedRAMP and IL6 familiarity.
• 8+ years in a Cloud Network Engineer role or related.
• Strong TCP/IP networking knowledge; design a highly available VPC.
• Experience with AWS network services and load balancing.
• Proficient with tooling: Terraform, Bash, Python; Git workflow.
• Collaborates with multiple stakeholders across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, reliable network solutions with various teams.
• 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 & Citizenship

Federal Compliance

8+ years in Cloud Network Engineer

TCP/IP networking (Layer 2-7)

AWS networking concepts

Load Balancing / DNS

Apache httpd / nginx / Tomcat

Troubleshooting with logs

Collaboration with stakeholders

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

git

Bash

Python

Golang

Job description

Okta's Federal SRE team seeks a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate reliable cloud services for the Federal sector. You will partner with software engineers, architects, and product teams to deliver scalable, secure platforms.

The role emphasizes automation, observability, and operational excellence. A TS/SCI clearance with poly is required, along with DoD compliance familiarity. Hybrid US-based work is supported.