Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Kubernetes

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 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 automating, securing, and running large-scale production Java/Tomcat and containerized services in AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, KMS, Kinesis, RDS) or other cloud providers.
• Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes/K8s clusters (EKS preferred). Experience with monitoring/alerting in the kubernetes eco system, and with deploying microservices
• 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, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Have expert-level abilities in operational tooling languages such as Ruby, Python, Go and shell, and use of source control.
• Familiar with industry-standard security tools like Nessus and OSQuery.
• Familiar with data stores such as RDS, S3, Redis, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch.

Experience in the  following 

• 5+ years of experience architecting and running complex AWS or other cloud networking infrastructure resources
• 5+ years of experience with Infrastructure As Code such as Terraform, Chef or Ansible;
• 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes/ K8s;
• Strong Linux understanding and experience;
• Strong security background and knowledge;
• BS In computer science (or equivalent experience).

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