Staff TDI Site Reliability Engineer

Okta Inc

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Washington, DC
Salary
$174,000–$239,000 / yr
Posted
102 days ago
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This role pays more than 64% of similar roles. Most pay $144,875–$217,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $206k versus about $181k for comparable roles.

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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.[

Okta Inc currently has 103 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $174,000–$238,000 across 103 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff TDI Site Reliability Engineer

The Staff TDI Site Reliability Engineer, Okta Federal joins the Technology, Data & Intelligence team to build and maintain cloud platform services supporting sensitive national security missions. This role involves operating enterprise solutions within air-gapped environments, building development tools, and managing infrastructure with a security-first mindset. Key responsibilities include maintaining SLOs/SLIs without external SaaS monitoring, owning incident response procedures, and managing CI/CD pipelines without internet connectivity. The candidate will utilize Terraform for infrastructure automation, Python for developing tools, and manage container orchestration via EKS and ECS Fargate. Technical proficiency in Splunk, CloudWatch, and the Grafana stack is required, alongside networking knowledge of BGP, IPsec, VPCs, and TGWs. The work focuses on providing foundational engineering enablement while ensuring compliance with strict government requirements and data boundary implementations.

What you'll do

  • Operate and maintain enterprise-grade solutions within air-gapped environments.
  • Build, run, and monitor development tools, pipelines, and infrastructure with a security-first mindset.
  • Maintain SLOs and SLIs for workloads without relying on external monitoring or SaaS tooling.
  • Own runbooks and incident response procedures tailored to limited external escalation paths.
  • Participate in POA&M remediation and support annual Authority to Operate activities.
  • Build and operate CI/CD pipelines that function without internet connectivity.
  • Support and run mission-critical services depended on by product teams.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Automation Engineer, or Systems Engineer.
  • Experience with container orchestration and runtime environments including EKS and ECS Fargate.
  • Proficiency in infrastructure automation using Terraform and developing automation tools with Python.
  • Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, CloudWatch, and the Grafana stack.
  • Experience with networking concepts including BGP, IPsec, VPCs, TGWs, and VPC endpoints.
  • Active U.S. TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
  • Knowledgeable in Linux system administration (preferred).
  • Experience in secure environments (FedRAMP, FIPS, STIG) and air-gapped environments (preferred).

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