As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (TS/SCI) at Okta's National Security team in the Washington D.C. area, you will lead technical projects and ensure secure, air-gapped solutions for federal partners by designing AWS-based infrastructures with Terraform, Helm, and Go. Your day-to-day involves managing production incidents through deep-dive troubleshooting and implementing preventive measures while driving engineering standards via design and code reviews. You’ll also mentor junior engineers and collaborate across teams to deliver enterprise-grade solutions. This role requires an active TS/SCI clearance and expertise in FedRAMP High and IL6 compliance, along with experience in Kubernetes, broad database knowledge, and interactive and batch workload management. Ideal candidates have a background in secure federal air-gapped environments and a commitment to rigorous software engineering practices for mission-critical SaaS platforms.
Skills
AWS
Terraform
Helm
Go
Kubernetes
FedRAMP
Impact Level 6 (IL6)
Snowflake
Redshift
Databricks
CI/CD
Security Clearance
Site Reliability Engineering
What you'll do
Design and deliver AWS-based projects using Terraform, Helm, and Go for secure federal air-gapped environments.
Respond to and remediate production incidents by performing deep-dive troubleshooting and implementing permanent preventive solutions.
Drive high-quality code through design reviews, code reviews, and attention to detail in engineering standards.
Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, enterprise-grade solutions.
Navigate Federal and DoD compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6) for federal projects.
What we're looking for
Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance required.
Proven experience with FedRAMP and IL6 compliance frameworks.
Deep expertise in architecting and deploying federal air-gapped environments.
6+ years of professional SRE experience managing production cloud workloads.
Significant hands-on experience with Kubernetes or similar orchestration layers.
Strong knowledge of both relational and non-relational database systems.
Market check
Salary context
Above market
How this pay compares to similar roles
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Employer
About Okta Inc
Okta, Inc. is an American identity and access management company based in San Francisco. It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, websites, web services, and devices.[
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