Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Okta

• 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 IAM, containerized services in AWS (EC2, ECS, KMS, Kinesis, RDS), GCP (GKE, GCE) or other cloud providers
• Have deep knowledge of CI/CD principles, Linux fundamentals, OS hardening, networking concepts, and IP protocols
• Have a deep understanding and familiarity with configuration management tools like Chef and Terraform
• Have expert-level abilities in operational tooling languages such as Ruby, Python, Go and shell, and use of source control
• Experience with industry-standard security tools like Nessus, Qualys, OSQuery, Splunk, etc
• Experience with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and secrets management
• 6+ years of experience architecting and running complex AWS or other cloud networking infrastructure resources
• 6+ years of experience with Chef and Terraform
• Unflappable troubleshooting skills
• Proven experience in collaborating across teams to deliver complex horizontal projects
• Strong Linux understanding and experience
• Strong security background and knowledge
• BS In computer science (or equivalent experience)

Desirable

• Okta’s Workforce Identity Cloud Security Engineering group is looking for an experienced and passionate Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join a team focused on designing and developing Security solutions to harden our cloud infrastructure
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Join us and be part of a company that is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever
• 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 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