Workforce Identity Cloud

Okta Workforce Identity Cloud (WIC) provides easy, secure access for your workforce so you can focus on other strategic priorities—like reducing costs, and doing more for your customers.

If you like to be challenged and have a passion for solving large-scale automation, testing, and tuning problems, we would love to hear from you. The ideal candidate is someone who exemplifies the ethics of, “If you have to do something more than once, automate it” and who can rapidly self-educate on new concepts and tools.

The Engineering Opportunity

We are seeking an exceptional SRE/Devops Engineer who is experienced in building software systems to manage and deploy reliable, performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure. 

This engineer will  join our group responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining services/frameworks that automates actions against production infrastructure. These services enable engineers across product and infrastructure engineering groups to safely, reliably and repeatedly execute runbooks and other actions on test, preview and production environments.

As part of this team, you will also work on new efforts to keep Okta’s infrastructure practices at par with the best industry standards. You will also interface with teams involved with deployments, operations, release engineering, product and data to address process bottlenecks with code and automate time consuming jobs. You will work hands-on with Kubernetes on GCP / AWS to help Okta’s services run seamlessly in both cloud environments. You will also be involved in the maintenance and debugging of team owned services as part of incident response.

What you’ll be doing 

• Design, build, maintain and deploy tools that allow Okta’s engineers to execute infrastructure production changes and deploy code.
• Manage multiple environments spanning a globally distributed infrastructure.
• Improve environment visibility and management in a repeatable and automatable way.
• Collaborate with all engineering and operations  teams to improve overall product health and reliability.
• Respond to production incidents and determine how we can prevent them in the future.
• Triage and troubleshoot complex production issues to ensure reliability and performance.
• Design and build scalable and extensible platforms/services/tools in Java, Python, Go  with a focus on automation and reliability.
• Work cross functionally with Operations and Product teams to identify bottlenecks and manual processes. Build solutions that provide scale and reliability to address these issues.
• Leverage industry best practices in infrastructure, automation, orchestration to explore greenfield opportunities that will form the basis of future infrastructure improvements.
• Identify areas for automation that are self-serviceable to reduce manual onboarding. Develop tools and processes to address these areas.
• Work on improving the security posture of team owned services and infrastructure. This would involve base image maintenance, updating hosts with newer library versions from vendors as well as services with vulnerability free libraries if and when they are identified.

What we are looking for

• 5+ years of Experience with Java, Go, Python or similar backend languages
• 5+ years of experience building, maintaining and debugging services, internal tools and frameworks 
• 3+ years experience automating and deploying large scale production services in AWS, GCP or similar.
• 3+ years of hands on experience working with Kubernetes, with a good understanding of Kuberentes fundamentals

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