About the company
Okta secures AI by building trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. The company seeks builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate highly scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure powering production systems across AWS and GCP.
- Lead reliability and modernization initiatives, including container platform migrations such as ECS to EKS/GKE and microservice enablement across multi-cloud environments.
- Serve as a technical authority in Kubernetes (EKS and GKE), cloud infrastructure (AWS and GCP), and modern CI/CD practices, including GitOps and automation pipelines.
- Partner with development teams to architect and enable microservice-based applications, ensuring production readiness, scalability, and observability.
- Implement and manage infrastructure as code to automate provisioning, scaling, and configuration management across cloud providers.
- Improve observability, performance, and cost efficiency through monitoring, logging, and alerting across AWS and GCP.
- Champion SRE practices by defining SLOs/SLIs, conducting blameless postmortems, and improving incident response.
- Lead complex technical projects from conception to completion, managing timelines and technical dependencies across teams.
- Mentor engineers across teams and foster reliability, automation, and continuous learning.
- Collaborate with security and compliance partners to ensure infrastructure adheres to best practices and standards, including IAM Federation and Workload Identity.
- Participate in the on-call rotation and use incidents to enhance systems and processes.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience architecting and operating cloud-native distributed systems on AWS and GCP.
- Deep expertise designing, provisioning, scaling, and troubleshooting Kubernetes (EKS and GKE) in production.
- Proven experience leading ECS to EKS/GKE migrations and microservice enablement initiatives at scale.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform (multi-provider), Ansible, or CloudFormation.
- Coding and scripting ability in Python, Go, or Shell, focused on automation, tooling, and operational excellence.
- Advanced understanding of CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, GitLab CI, Spinnaker), Linux systems, and networking fundamentals, including Direct Connect/Interconnect, DNS, routing, and load balancing.
- Experience managing cloud databases and caching systems such as RDS/Cloud SQL, Redis/Memorystore, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
- Hands-on experience with observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, OpenTelemetry, and Google Cloud Operations.
- Working knowledge of container security, secrets management (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Google Secret Manager), and production compliance.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated success leading cross-team projects and mentoring peers.
- 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
- 3–5 years of production Kubernetes experience (EKS/GKE) and related ecosystem tools such as Helm and Karpenter.
- 3–5 years of experience with AWS and GCP.
- 3–5 years using Terraform to manage multi-cloud infrastructure.
- 5+ years of coding experience in Python, Go, or similar languages.
- Proven track record leading high-impact projects, specifically ECS to EKS/GKE migrations and enabling microservice architectures.
- Experience implementing SLOs/SLIs, performing root cause analyses, and improving operational resilience.
- Prior work in SaaS or high-scale, cloud-native environments is a strong plus.
- Strong Linux and security fundamentals.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent hands-on experience.
Conditions
- The role includes participation in an on-call rotation.
- Onboarding includes an immersive, in-person experience.