Staff TDI Site Reliability Engineer, Okta Federal

The role

You will build, improve, and maintain cloud platform services to support national security missions. You will design and implement complex cloud-based engineering enablement systems while ensuring compliance with government requirements.

What you will do

• 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.

Required qualifications

• 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.
• Active U.S. TS/SCI with polygraph.

Nice to have

• 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.

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus
• Health, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible spending account
• Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)

Before you apply

• The selected candidate may be subject to drug testing to the extent required by U.S. Government contracts.

About the company

Okta's Technology, Data & Intelligence (TDI) team delivers the systems, tools, and services that power internal operations across the company. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era.