Staff Network Engineer

Overview

Staff Network Engineer responsible for the resilience, security, health, and availability of Okta’s global corporate network. The operations-focused role covers incident response, reliability engineering, automation, and long-term network strategy.

What you'll do

• Design and own global corporate network resilience, health, and availability.
• Respond to alerts, monitor health indicators, and execute reliability projects.
• Automate network operations and build scalable self-service tooling.
• Reduce systemic toil and technical debt across multiple teams.
• Lead resolution of complex network operations issues and prevent future outages.
• Collaborate with Business Technology, Workplace, Security, and executive stakeholders.
• Mentor team members through the P4 level.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of related professional experience with a Bachelor’s degree, 6+ years with a Master’s degree, or 3+ years with a PhD, or equivalent experience.
• Deep expertise in AWS Networking.
• Deep expertise in Palo Alto Networks solutions.
• Operational experience with distributed systems and networking fundamentals.
• Proficiency with cloud platforms, Terraform or Ansible, Prometheus or Grafana, Python or Go, and SLOs or SLIs.
• Experience managing protocols and technologies including WiFi, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, VPN, ACLs, routing, and firewall policies.
• Experience managing operational availability and delivering multi-quarter technical objectives.

Nice to have

• Experience with Juniper or JUNOS switching and routing.
• Experience with Palo Alto Networks NGFWs.
• Experience with enterprise office build and construction processes.
• Experience mentoring peers and eliminating manual toil through innovation.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Occasional travel may be required.
• In-person onboarding experience is provided.