Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta’s Workflows SRE team which is part of our Emerging Products Group (EPG). Okta Workflows is the foundation for secure integration between cloud services. By harnessing the power of the cloud, Okta allows people to quickly integrate different services, while still enforcing strong security policies. With Okta Workflows, organizations can implement no-code or low-code workflows quickly, easily, at a large scale, and low total cost. Thousands of customers trust Okta Workflows to help their organizations work faster, boost revenue, and stay secure.

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.

What you’ll be doing?

• Designing, building, running, and monitoring Okta Workflows’ and other EPG products’ global production infrastructure.
• Lead and implement secure, scalable Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments.
• Be an evangelist for security best practices and also lead initiatives/projects to strengthen our security posture for critical infrastructure.
• Responding to production incidents and determining how we can prevent them in the future.
• Triaging and troubleshooting complex production issues to ensure reliability and performance.
• Enhance automation workflows for patching, vulnerability assessments, and incident response.
• Continuously evolving our monitoring tools and platform.
• Promoting and applying best practices for building scalable and reliable services across engineering.
• Developing and maintaining technical documentation, runbooks, and procedures.
• Supporting a highly available and large scale Kubernetes and AWS environment as part of an on-call rotation.
• Be a technical SME for a team that designs and builds Okta's production infrastructure, focusing on security at scale in the cloud.

What you’ll bring to the role?

• Are always willing to go the extra mile: see a problem, fix the problem.
• Are passionate about encouraging the development of engineering peers and leading by example.
• Have experience with Kubernetes deployments in either AWS and/or GCP Cloud environments.
• Have an understanding and familiarity with configuration management tools like Chef, Terraform, or Ansible.
• Have expert-level abilities in operational tooling languages such as Go and shell, and use of source control.
• Have knowledge of various types of data stores, particularly PostgreSQL, Redis, and OpenSearch.
• Experience with industry-standard security tools like Nessus and OSQuery.
• Have knowledge of CI/CD principles, Linux fundamentals, OS hardening, networking concepts, and IP protocols.
• Skilled in using Datadog for real-time monitoring and proactive incident detection.
• Strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and promote a security first culture.

Experience in the  following

• 5+ years of experience running and managing complex AWS or other cloud networking infrastructure resources including architecture, security and scalability.
• 5+ years of experience with Ansible, Chef, and/or Terraform
• 3+ years of experience in cloud security, including IAM (Identity and Access Management) and/or secure identity management for cloud platforms and Kubernetes.
• 3+ years of experience in automating CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Spinnaker, or ArgoCD with an emphasis on integrating security throughout the process.
• Proven experience in implementing monitoring and observability solutions such as Datadog or Splunk to enhance security and detect incidents in real-time.
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills with experience working cross-functionally with security engineers and developers to enforce security best practices and policies.
• Strong Linux understanding and experience.
• Strong security background and knowledge.
• BS In computer science (or equivalent experience).

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What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
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