Staff TDI Site Reliability Engineer, Okta Federal
Okta
$174,000 - $239,000 / year
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Description
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
Okta’s Technology, Data & Intelligence (TDI) team delivers the systems, tools, and services that power internal operations across the company. From core infrastructure to enterprise platforms, we partner across functions to drive scale, reliability, and innovation through technology.
The Staff Site Reliability Engineer Opportunity
Okta Federal, Inc. is looking for an experienced Staff TDI Site Reliability Engineer to help build, improve, and maintain our cloud platform services that help Okta support the most sensitive national security missions. The Site Reliability Engineering team delivers foundational infrastructure capabilities that enable corporate engineering teams to operate securely, reliably, and at scale. You’ll play a key role in designing and implementing complex cloud-based engineering enablement systems, while ensuring compliance with strict government requirements.
What you’ll be doing
- Operate and maintain enterprise grade solutions within 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 for workloads with no dependency on external monitoring or SaaS tooling.
- Own runbooks and incident response procedures tailored to limited external escalation paths.
- Participate in POA&M remediation and support annual/recurring Authority to Operate activities.
- Support and run mission critical services depended on by product teams
- Deliver excellent internal customer service and advocate for SRE and DevOps practices across teams.
- Build and operate CI/CD pipelines that function without internet connectivity.
What you’ll bring to the role
- 7+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Automation Engineer, or Systems Engineer with a track record of delivering complex infrastructure projects at scale.
- Experience with container orchestration and runtime environments, including EKS, ECS Fargate, and general container usage.
- Proficient in infrastructure automation using Terraform and developing automation tools with Python, while leveraging secure software development practices.
- Experience with monitoring tools, especially Splunk, CloudWatch, and the Grafana stack.
- Experience with general networking concepts, such as BGP and IPsec management, and has leveraged AWS networking services, including VPCs, TGWs, and VPC endpoints.
- Security Clearance: Active U.S. TS/SCI with polygraph.
Additional requirements
- The selected candidate may be subject to drug testing to the extent required by U.S. Government contracts.
And extra credit if you have experience in the following
- Knowledgeable in Linux system administration.
- Experience in secure and compliant environments (e.g., FedRAMP), with understanding of FIPS, STIG, and data boundary implementations.
- Working experience operating tools and services in air gapped environments.
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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.
The Okta Experience
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
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About this role
Okta Federal is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to own the infrastructure and operational systems that support the company's most security-sensitive government missions. Working in-office in Washington, D.C., you'll design and maintain cloud-based engineering platforms within air-gapped environments where external dependencies aren't an option. This means building CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and incident response procedures that function independently, while meeting strict compliance requirements like FedRAMP and maintaining Authority to Operate status.
The role demands seven or more years of hands-on experience with infrastructure at scale—container orchestration (EKS, ECS Fargate), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), Python automation, and AWS networking. You'll need strong operational knowledge of monitoring tools like Splunk and Grafana, Linux system administration, and networking fundamentals including BGP and IPsec. An active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph is required, along with willingness to undergo drug testing as mandated by government contracts.
This is a position for someone comfortable operating autonomously in secure facilities and taking ownership of mission-critical systems with limited escalation paths. If you have direct experience in FedRAMP or other compliant environments and have actually run tools in air-gapped setups, you'd be well-positioned for this role. The salary range is $174,000–$239,000, with equity, bonus, and standard benefits.
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