Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Networking

Job summary

Okta is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join the TCore team, which owns and operates all of Okta's networks. This role involves designing and implementing scalable, reliable network solutions, maintaining cloud infrastructure, and automating AWS infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in cloud networking and a passion for network responsiveness and performance.

Benefits

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in a Cloud Network Engineer role or related field
• In-depth understanding of TCP/IP networking stack (layer 2 through 7)
• Ability to implement a highly available VPC network, including inter-VPC connectivity
• Working knowledge of stateless and stateful firewalls
• Familiarity with DNS, web-application firewalls, and various cloud load balancing methods
• Deep knowledge of AWS/GCP network concepts such as Transit Gateway / Network Connectivity Center (NCC), Site-to-Site VPN / HA VPN, and Direct Connect / Cloud Interconnect
• Ability to troubleshoot network issues using AWS VPC flow logs, Cloudwatch metrics, GCP VPC Flow Logs / Cloud Logging, and standard packet captures
• Experience working with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet or similar automation tools
• Proficiency in Bash, Python, Golang, or similar scripting languages
• Experienced with Git
• Ability to collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders
• Willingness to work on-call
• Experience working in a security-oriented cloud environment (extra credit)
• Working knowledge of Palo Alto next-gen virtual firewalls, including implementation, configuration of security policies, routing, and Global Protect (extra credit)
• Experience with GCP-specific advanced architecture like Shared VPC topologies, Cloud Router BGP configurations, and Network Connectivity Center (NCC) (extra credit)
• Ability to access federal environments and/or protected federal data
• Ability to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status upon hire (e.g., U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee)

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable and reliable network solutions with various teams
• Maintain a highly available cloud infrastructure edge for the Okta identity platform
• Collect and analyze data to identify root causes for network-specific events
• Automate AWS infrastructure with Terraform and/or Chef
• Evolve the system by introducing changes to improve efficiency, scalability, and velocity

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Relocation