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The engineering team inside Okta’s Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) organisation is seeking a DevOps focused individual to join an existing and growing team.

These security-minded software engineers have the responsibility to build, maintain, and reliably operate the tools and applications used in the day-to-day mission of detecting and responding to  threats against Okta and its customers. Ideal candidates will have significant experience both in building serverless applications as well as maintaining them in a production environment. They should be able to speak to, and give examples, of well architected design choices and implementations. Python is the predominant language used by DCO and candidates must be comfortable using it effectively.

This position is part of the internal security department and experience working in operation security is strongly desired. Examples include, but limited to, detection engineering, SOC analyst, and security engineer.

What you’ll be doing:

• Work with a distributed global team.
• Efficiently configure and manage the generation, shipping, ETL, and ingestion of data sources required for providing for detection and response.
• Build and enhance applications to generate detection signals and enrichment to identify potential threats.
• Partner with members of the detection and response team to enhance and scale a security alert pipeline.
• Deploy and maintain operational efficiency of tools and systems used across DCO.
• Maintain internal tooling efficacy with observability, metrics, and quality of service alerts.
• Identify and implement automation solutions to reduce the friction of the DCO team and their mission.
• Collaborate with peers over architecture design and code views.
• Minimal UX/UI development is expected for this position.

What this position is not:

• Writing security detections or incident response
• Application security, dedicated code reviews, or compliance focused
• Data scientist or machine learning

Desired background:

• Production and critical app development in Python, Golang or Rust
• Experience architecting and developing serverless applications in AWS
• Experience working with infrastructure as code and developing CI/CI pipelines. Terraform is currently used heavily. 
• Container development in EKS or ECS and ability to explain security concepts for containers
• Familiarity with ETL/ ITL pipelines 
• 6-8 years of combined experience in software development, DevOps, SRE or security operations
• Experience implementing security best practices with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
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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/.

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