Okta
Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Okta Federal
Washington, DC
No sponsorship$244k-$336kDetected 2 days ago
TypeScriptVector DatabasesAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformDevOpsPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningAI OrchestrationCybersecuritySOC OperationsComplianceNetwork EngineeringCollaboration
About the role
- Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI.
- We bring world-class business acumen and technology expertise to every interaction.
Responsibilities
- Define and own Okta's Cloud Platform architecture - establish reference architectures, design standards, and guardrails that bring consistency, security, and reliability to workloads running across the business
- Lead the architecture for Kubernetes and EKS - design and evolve our cluster strategy, multi-tenancy model, networking topology, and security posture as the platform scales to support AI agent workloads and diverse business unit deployments
- Elevate Okta's AI platform - partner with AI architects and platform engineers to evolve our agent and model-serving infrastructure from its current state to a production-grade, scalable platform capable of supporting broad business adoption
- Drive multi-cloud strategy - build the evaluation framework and decision criteria for when and how Okta leverages AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud; ensure workload placement is intentional and optimized for performance, cost, and capability
- Serve as the technical anchor for the Cloud Platform Engineering team - raise the architectural quality of everything the team designs and builds as we complete the transformation from account vending to a managed platform model
- Partner cross-functionally with AI, security, and productivity architects, product managers, and business unit stakeholders to ensure cloud infrastructure decisions align with Okta's product, compliance, and operational requirements - including support for federal programs and FedRAMP environments
- Partner cross-functionally to design cloud-native solutions that can be effectively adapted for air-gapped, self-hosted environments like US Secret (SIPRNet) and US Top Secret (JWICS).
- Help architect and validate foundational Kubernetes and infrastructure designs within unclassified AWS GovCloud sandboxes.
- You will ensure these commercial-side designs translate seamlessly when tested against emulators that simulate the strict constraints of air-gapped networks.
- Infrastructure-as-code fluency - Terraform, AWS CDK, or equivalent; experience building and maintaining reusable, modular IaC at enterprise scale
Requirements
- U.S. soil status - the employee must be on U.S. soil, which means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or outlying areas of the United States, as defined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101
- U.S. Security Clearance status - the employee must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance (Secret or Top Secret) to the extent required by U.S. Government contracts.
Nice to have
- ensure workload placement is intentional and optimized for performance, cost, and capability
- AWS experience is preferred given our current environment, but strong multi-cloud or GCP backgrounds are equally valued
- Proven experience designing and operating Kubernetes and EKS at scale - cluster architecture, multi-tenancy patterns, networking (CNI, service mesh), security hardening, and day-2 operations
- Strong cloud security background - IAM design, network segmentation, secrets management, policy-as-code, and experience with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, FedRAMP, or equivalent)
- Infrastructure-as-code fluency - Terraform, AWS CDK, or equivalent
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority. experience driving architectural alignment across engineering, security, product, and business stakeholders in a fast-moving organization
Skills
- Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
- Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI.
- This is an opportunity to do career-defining work.
- Technology, Data, and Insights (TDI) is on a mission to accelerate Okta's scale and growth.
- The Cloud Platform Architect Opportunity
Compensation
- The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding
Benefits
- Experience architecting infrastructure for AI and machine learning workloads - GPU compute, model serving, data pipeline infrastructure, and the security and access patterns that go with them
Visa & Work Authorization
- Security Clearance: Active U
This listing is sourced directly from Okta's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.