Staff Site Reliability Engineer- Network
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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.
Get to know OktaOkta 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.Network Staff SRE
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 box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can improve us with their unique experiences.Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
The ideal candidate is someone who enjoys analyzing systems and identifying areas of opportunity to improve system performance, availability and capacity. They are part systems administrator, part network administrator, and part developer.Responsibilities:
- Maintain a highly available cloud infrastructure edge for the Okta identity platform
- Collect and analyze data to identify root causes for network-specific events
- Automate AWS infrastructure with Terraform and/or Chef
- Evolve the system by introducing changes to improve efficiency, scalability, and velocityExperience & Qualification:
- 4+ years of operations experience configuring, deploying, monitoring and troubleshooting applications and infrastructure in the cloud
- 8+ years administering or operating within a Linux environment, strong experience using Linux based tooling, and ability to debug systems level problems
- In-depth understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP, Load Balancing, DNS and other networking protocols
- Solid understanding and experience with Apache httpd, nginx, Apache Tomcat, or similar
- Strong problem solving and debugging skills coupled with a desire to take on ownership and responsibility
- Proficiency in Bash, Python, Golang, or similar. Experienced with git
- Experience working with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet or similar automation tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Willingness to work on-callNice to have skills:
- Experience working in a security-oriented cloud environment
- Experience debugging software using gdb, strace, ltrace, tcpdump, Wireshark, etc.
- Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with PKI / certificate management (edited)
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