Site Reliability Engineer, Okta

• Are always willing to go the extra mile: see a problem, fix the problem
• 2+ years experience automating, securing, and running large-scale production IAM and containerized services in AWS (EC2, ECS, KMS, Kinesis, RDS), GCP (GKE, GCE) or other cloud providers
• 2+ years of experience with configuration management tools like Chef and Terraform
• Have experience in operational tooling languages such as Ruby, Python, Go and shell, and use of source control
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD principles, Linux fundamentals, OS hardening, networking concepts, and IP protocols
• Experience with industry-standard security tools like Nessus, Qualys, OSQuery, Splunk, etc
• Experience with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and secrets management
• Unflappable troubleshooting skills
• Security background and knowledge
• BS In computer science (or equivalent experience)

Desirable

• Our Infrastructure Security team has a niche skill-set that balances Security domain expertise with the ability to design, implement, rollout infrastructure across multiple cloud environments without adding friction to product functionality or performance
• We are responsible for the ever-growing need to improve our customer safety and privacy by providing security services that are coupled with the core Okta product
• We embrace innovation and pave the way to transform bright ideas into excellent security solutions that help run large-scale, critical infrastructure
• We encourage you to prescribe defense-in-depth measures, industry security standards and enforce the principle of least privilege to help take our Security posture to the next level
• Okta’s Workforce Identity Cloud Security Engineering group is looking for an experienced and passionate Site Reliability Engineer to join a team focused on designing and developing Security solutions to harden our cloud infrastructure
• This is a high-impact role in a security-centric, fast-paced organization that is poised for massive growth and success
• You will act as a liaison between the Security org and the Engineering org to build technical leverage and influence the security roadmap
• You will focus on engineering security aspects of the systems used across our services
• 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 an on-call rotation