Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Networking (AWS/FedRAMP)

Location: Hybrid role for candidates in Maryland, Virginia, or Washington, DC; active U.S. TS/SCI clearance with full-scope poly and U.S. citizenship are required.

Salary: $174,000–$238,000 USD annual base salary, with equity where applicable, bonus, and benefits.

Company

Okta builds trusted identity and security infrastructure for organizations, including secure cloud services for Federal customers.

What you will do

• Design and implement scalable, reliable network solutions with engineering, architecture, and product teams.
• Maintain highly available cloud infrastructure at the edge of the Okta identity platform.
• Collect and analyze operational data to identify root causes of network-specific incidents.
• Automate AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
• Improve system efficiency, scalability, velocity, and operational reliability through continuous engineering changes.

Requirements

• Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance with full-scope poly and U.S. citizenship.
• Experience with Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, including FedRAMP, Impact Level 6, and SC2S/C2S.
• 8+ years of experience in cloud network engineering or a related role.
• Deep knowledge of TCP/IP networking layers 2–7, highly available VPCs, inter-VPC connectivity, firewalls, DNS, web-application firewalls, load balancing, Transit Gateway, Site-to-Site VPN, and Direct Connect.
• Experience troubleshooting with VPC Flow Logs, CloudWatch metrics, packet captures, and network diagnostic tools.
• Professional experience with Terraform, Git, and Apache HTTP Server, NGINX, Apache Tomcat, or similar technologies; ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in Bash, Python, or Golang.
• Experience with Palo Alto virtual firewalls, security policies, routing, and GlobalProtect.
• Experience debugging with GDB, strace, ltrace, tcpdump, or Wireshark.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

Culture & Benefits

• Automation-first approach with a focus on platform engineering, observability, and operational excellence.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k), flexible spending account, paid time off, and parental leave.
• Equity and bonus opportunities where applicable.
• In-person onboarding and connection across a global community with more than 20 offices.