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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 9 days Okta's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Okta's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Okta
- low 0 stale, 35 reposted of 320 open
- Hiring momentum
- 541 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Okta's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Okta.
About this role
As an SRE Operations Engineer at Okta, you will focus on maintaining the operational integrity of the Customer Identity Cloud, ensuring production systems are always functional. Your responsibilities will include managing the Engineering Service Desk, monitoring platform health, and assisting with capacity and performance testing. You will collaborate closely with the SRE team to address platform issues and implement improvements.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 3/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Okta as an employer.
What you need
- 1+ years in a Cloud Operations role
- 1+ years in a production environment supporting large-scale, mission-critical applications
- General platform infrastructure knowledge, including high availability/load balancing concepts, routers, firewalls, and storage subsystems
- Sound understanding of protocols/technologies like HTTP, SSL, SSH, and Kubernetes
- Experience with monitoring and troubleshooting techniques
- Ability to communicate clearly with a diverse range of stakeholders across multiple domains
Nice to have
- Knowledge of terraform
- Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS and Azure
- Linux fundamentals and knowledge of tools like Datadog
- Interest and/or an understanding of programming e.g. golang, shell scripting
- Familiarity with a variety of open source technologies and tools like MongoDB, NodeJS
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Role may involve legacy systems as it supports existing production environments
- Potential for career growth into Site Reliability Engineering is mentioned but not guaranteed
Summarised from Okta's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Okta on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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