Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Get to know Okta

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. 

Workforce Identity Cloud

Okta Workforce Identity Cloud (WIC) provides easy, secure access for your workforce so you can focus on other strategic priorities—like reducing costs, and doing more for your customers.

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's 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 24x7 online environment as part of a global on-call rotation

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 automating, securing, and running large-scale production Java/Tomcat and containerized services in AWS (EC2, ECS, KMS, Kinesis, RDS) or other cloud providers.
• Knowledge of core Kubernetes concepts (Pods, Deployments, Services). Proven ability to use kubectl for basic operations and to diagnose issues by inspecting logs and pod status.
• Have knowledge of CI/CD principles, Linux fundamentals, OS hardening, networking concepts, and Internet protocols.
• Have an understanding and familiarity with configuration management tools like Chef, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Have strong skills in operational tooling languages such as Ruby, Python, or Go.
• Understand both relational and non-relational datastores, including replication and clustering strategies.

Experience in the  following 

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

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.