Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Okta Federal

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United StatesOnsiteFull-timeSenior Level10+ yrs exp

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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
Technology, Data, and Insights (TDI) is on a mission to accelerate Okta's scale and growth. We bring world-class business acumen and technology expertise to every interaction. We also drive cross-functional collaboration and are focused on delivering measurable business outcomes.
The TDI Infrastructure Engineering team owns the foundational platforms that power Okta's business — from cloud infrastructure and AI platform delivery to network engineering, developer productivity, observability
client platforms. We are a team of builders who design and operate at scale
we are in the middle of a strategic transformation: evolving our cloud practice from a self-service model into a managed, opinionated platform that the entire business can rely on.
The Cloud Platform Architect Opportunity
Okta Federal, Inc. is looking for a dedicated Cloud Platform Architect for TDI Infrastructure Engineering — the technical authority for how we design, build
evolve the cloud infrastructure that underpins our AI platform and the broader workloads running across the business. You will define the architectural standards, patterns
strategies that the Cloud Platform Engineering team builds to
you will serve as a key partner to AI, security
productivity architects as we scale Okta's cloud capabilities to meet increasing business demand.
This is a hands-on builder role. We are not looking for someone who advises from a distance — we need someone who has shipped cloud infrastructure at scale and brings the credibility and depth to make sound architectural decisions in a fast-moving environment. You will operate at a critical moment: Okta's AI platform is scaling rapidly, our cloud platform team is transforming
the foundational decisions made now will define the trajectory of our infrastructure for years.
This role reports directly to the Director of Infrastructure Engineering.
What You'll Be Doing
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
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
productivity architects, product managers
business unit stakeholders to ensure cloud infrastructure decisions align with Okta's product, compliance
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.
Ensure our commercial cloud platform architecture shares foundational DNA with our highly regulated deployments, aligning with DoD-centric frameworks like the USAF's "Big Bang" architecture and utilizing Iron Bank hardened containers where applicable.
What You'll Bring to the Role
10+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience with deep, demonstrated expertise in one or more major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) — including compute, networking, storage, IAM, and managed services at enterprise scale
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
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
Demonstrated experience making intentional cloud provider placement decisions — evaluating workloads against provider capabilities, cost profiles, compliance requirements
existing organizational footprint rather than defaulting to a single cloud
Strong cloud security background — IAM design, network segmentation, secrets management, policy-as-code, and experience with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, FedRAMP, or equivalent)
Solid understanding of enterprise identity and access management patterns — including federated identity, SSO
SCIM — and experience integrating cloud workloads and platform services with identity providers such as Okta
Infrastructure-as-code fluency — Terraform, AWS CDK, or equivalent; experience building and maintaining reusable, modular IaC at enterprise scale
Demonstrated ability to influence without authority — experience driving architectural alignment across engineering, security, product, and business stakeholders in a fast-moving organization
Security Clearance: Active U.S. TS/SCI with polygraph.
The selected candidate may be subject to drug testing to the extent required by U.S. Government contracts.
Extra Credit If You Have Experience In Any of the Following
Experience designing or operating cloud infrastructure for FedRAMP authorized environments or federal programs
Designing infrastructure for completely air-gapped networks, Sovereign Clouds, or DoD Impact Level 6/7 environments.
Hands-on experience building or operating AI agent platforms — orchestration frameworks, vector databases, model routing, or inference optimization
FinOps experience — cloud cost governance, chargeback models, commitment-based discount strategies, and rightsizing at scale
Platform engineering for internal developer platforms (IDP) — developer self-service, golden paths, and guardrails
Service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd in production Kubernetes environments
Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS, CKAD) or AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Professional, Security Specialty)
Familiarity with cloud-native security operations platforms such as Google SecOps (Chronicle) — including log ingestion architecture, data residency considerations, and GCP IAM integration patterns
Familiarity with DoD/IC DevSecOps reference architectures and networking, specifically traversing boundaries via cross-domain solution (CDS) and deploying DevOps tools like "Big Bang" via Iron Bank hardened containers.
Location
This is a US-based role. Candidates must be located in the United States. Okta operates a flexible hybrid work model; specific in-office expectations will be discussed during the hiring process.
Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy.
Additional 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.
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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience
work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus
benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account
paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us .
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between:
$244,000 — $336,000 USD
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