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.

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.

We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta’s Workflows SRE (TFLO) team. Okta Workflows is the foundation for secure integration between cloud services. By harnessing the power of the cloud, Okta allows people to quickly integrate different services, while still enforcing strong security policies. With Okta Workflows, organizations can implement no-code or low-code workflows quickly, easily, at a large scale, and low total cost. Thousands of customers trust Okta Workflows to help their organizations work faster, boost revenue, and stay secure.

If you like to be challenged and have a passion for solving large-scale automation, testing, and tuning problems, 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.

What you’ll be doing?

• Designing, building, running, and monitoring Okta Workflows’ global production infrastructure
• Be an evangelist for security best practices and also lead initiatives/projects to strengthen our security posture for critical infrastructure
• Responding to production incidents and determining how we can prevent them in the future
• Triaging and troubleshooting complex production issues to ensure reliability and performance
• Identifying and automating manual processes
• Continuously evolving our monitoring tools and platform
• Promoting and applying best practices for building scalable and reliable services across engineering
• Developing and maintaining technical documentation, runbooks, and procedures
• Supporting a highly available and large scale Kubernetes and AWS environment as part of an on-call rotation
• Be a technical SME for a team that designs and builds Okta's production infrastructure, focusing on security at scale in the cloud.

What you’ll bring to the role?

• Are always willing to go the extra mile: see a problem, fix the problem.
• Are passionate about encouraging the development of engineering peers and leading by example.
• Have experience with Kubernetes deployments in either AWS and/or GCP Cloud environments.
• Have an understanding and familiarity with configuration management tools like Chef, Terraform, or Ansible.
• Have expert-level abilities in operational tooling languages such as Go and shell, and use of source control.
• Have knowledge of various types of data stores, particularly PostgreSQL, Redis, and OpenSearch.
• Experience with industry-standard security tools like Nessus and OSQuery.
• Have knowledge of CI/CD principles, Linux fundamentals, OS hardening, networking concepts, and IP protocols.

Experience in the  following

• 5+ years of experience architecting and running complex AWS or other cloud networking infrastructure resources
• 5+ years of experience with Ansible, Chef, and/or Terraform
• Strong leadership skills
• Strong Linux understanding and experience.
• Strong security background and knowledge.
• BS In computer science (or equivalent experience).

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What you can look forward to as an Full-Time 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/.

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