Staff TDI Site Reliability Engineer, Federal

Okta Federal, Inc. is looking for an experienced Staff TDI Site Reliability Engineer to help build, improve, and maintain our cloud platform services that support the most sensitive national security missions. The Site Reliability Engineering team delivers foundational infrastructure capabilities that enable corporate engineering teams to operate securely, reliably, and at scale.

• 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 Dev Ops practices across teams.
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines that function without internet connectivity.

• 7+ years of experience as an SRE, Dev Ops 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, Cloud Watch, 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.
• Security Clearance: Active U.S. TS/SCI with polygraph.

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

• 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.

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.