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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Federal 

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta’s Federal Team. At Okta our motto is "Always On", and nowhere do we embrace that more than in Technical Operations. We strive to build the most reliable and performant systems on the planet through the skillful use of automation. We've created an integrated system that securely connects any person via any device to the technologies they need to do their most significant work. 

This role is ideal for someone who not only enjoys working on large scale cloud production systems but gains pride from seeing those systems handle anything the internet can throw at them. 

If you like to be challenged and have a passion for solving problems at scale with automation, testing, and tuning, then 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. This engineer can be in our Bellevue, San Francisco, and/or San Jose office, or can be remote!

What you’ll be doing :

• Maintain, build and monitor Okta's global production infrastructure
• Respond to production incidents and determine preventive solutions
• Build and support logging and metric collection using a stack that includes Splunk, VMWare Wavefront, Zabbix, ThousandEyes, Pingdom, AWS, and more
• Act as first point of contact for the production facing federal infrastructure
• Automate manual processes, evolve our monitoring tools, and develop technical documentation
• Daily Scripting - Go,python
• MySQL troubleshooting, ensure effective performance and 24X7 availability of the production database systems 
• Support a highly available and large scale online environment on-call support

 

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Experience with Federal and DoD compliance requirements - FedRAMP, IL
• Background using and supporting Splunk, Zabbix, Wavefront, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, ThousandEyes, or related tools
• Passionate about automation
• Experience in chatops tooling, Slack automation, PagerDuty integration
• Background with Linux systems administration and strong scripting skills in Bash, Ruby, Python, Go, etc.
• Experience supporting Docker containers and web applications running on Java / Apache / Tomcat in a live production environment
• Strong expertise with production services in AWS such as EC2, ECS, KMS, Kinesis, CloudWatch
• Previous experience with automating systems and infrastructure via Ansible, Chef or Terraform
• Solid understanding of networking concepts and IP protocols
• Experience with multi-cloud infrastructure is desired

Additional requirements:

• This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data.  As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, 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 annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington is between:$122,000—$184,000 USD The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $152,000—$228,000 USD

What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta 

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

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. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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