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;
• 4+ years of experience with Kubernetes/ K8s;
• Strong Linux understanding and experience;
• Strong security background and knowledge;
• BS In computer science (or equivalent experience).