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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
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Network Senior SRE
The ideal candidate is someone who enjoys analyzing systems and identifying areas of opportunity to improve system performance, availability and capacity. They are part systems administrator, part network administrator, and part developer.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain a highly available cloud infrastructure edge for the Okta identity platform
- Collect and analyse 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
Experience & Qualification:
- 4+ years of operations experience configuring, deploying, monitoring and troubleshooting applications and infrastructure in the cloud
- Demonstrates good understanding of TCP/IP networking stack; (layer 2 through 7).
- Ability to implement a highly available VPC network, including inter-vpc connectivity options. Familiar with the basic VPC constructs on cloud
- Working knowledge of stateless and stateful firewalls. Familiar with DNS, web-application firewalls, and various load balancing methods available in the cloud.
- Experience with Terraform
- Experience with one of the programming languages like Python/Golang
- Have some experience of working on Linux systems and has some exposure to use bash scripts like can utilise the basic shell commands to perform some tasks and has experience on using some common commands/ tools specially to identify network issues on the system.
- Some exposure on Apache httpd, nginx, Apache Tomcat, or similar would be really good.
- Strong problem solving and debugging skills coupled with a desire to take on ownership and responsibility
- Understands AWS network concepts such as Transit Gateway, Site to Site VPN, and Direct Connect
- Ability to troubleshoot network issues using standard AWS logs and metrics
- Being able to work in a globally distributed team
Nice to have skills:
- Experience working in a security-oriented cloud environment
- Experience debugging software using gdb, strace, ltrace, tcpdump, Wireshark, etc.
- Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with PKI / certificate management
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What you can look forward to as an Full-Time Okta employee!
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- Making Social Impact
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Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
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Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
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