What you’ll be doing?

• Designing, building, running, and monitoring Okta Workflows’ global 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 highly available and large scale Kubernetes and AWS 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 with Kubernetes deployments in either AWS and/or GCP Cloud environments.
• Have an understanding and familiarity with configuration management tools like Chef, Terraform, or Ansible.
• Have expert-level abilities in operational tooling languages such as Go and shell, and use of source control.
• Have knowledge of various types of data stores, particularly PostgreSQL, Redis, and OpenSearch.
• Experience with industry-standard security tools like Nessus and OSQuery.
• Have knowledge of CI/CD principles, Linux fundamentals, OS hardening, networking concepts, and IP protocols.

Experience in the  following

• 5+ years of experience architecting and running complex AWS or other cloud networking infrastructure resources
• 5+ years of experience with Ansible, Chef, and/or Terraform
• Strong leadership skills
• Strong Linux understanding and experience.
• Strong security background and knowledge.
• BS In computer science (or equivalent experience).

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