Lead Okta’s Site Reliability Engineering organization for emerging products, scaling reliable, secure, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure while developing teams, platforms, and operational practices.
Manager, Site Reliability Engineering
📜 Description
- Manage SRE teams supporting workloads across the IDaaS platform.
- Advance microservices adoption, DevOps maturity, and workload reliability with architects and engineering teams.
- Develop tooling, self-service capabilities, and self-healing patterns to accelerate SRE and product engineering.
- Lead, mentor, and grow engineers and managers across platform, infrastructure, and shared services.
- Improve infrastructure-as-code SDLC processes, CI/CD pipelines, and change and release management.
🛠️ Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in technical leadership and people management.
- Extensive experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies for product infrastructure and shared services at scale.
- Experience operating large-scale infrastructure platforms for SaaS or cloud services in a public cloud; AWS preferred, and multi-cloud experience is a plus.
- Expertise in cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on background in software development, PaaS, and automation.
- Experience building and operating large-scale observability platforms and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Splunk, or APM tools.
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Computer Science or related degree, or equivalent experience.
✨ Benefits
- Equity, where applicable.
- Bonus.
- Health insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- 401(k).
- Flexible spending account.
- Paid leave, including PTO and parental leave.
Full job description
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.
Manager, Site Reliability Engineering
San Francisco, California
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.
**This position requires 2 days a week in our San Francisco Office.
The IDaaS Site Reliability Engineering Group
Okta authenticates, authorizes and provisions millions of users a day. The service is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) across multiple availability zones and geographically separated regions. The service is designed for high throughput and 99.999 availability. We're looking for a technical leader to help us continue to scale the service with great people and reliable, cost-effective, and efficient infrastructure, processes, and tooling.
As the Manager of Infrastructure Platform and Shared Services, you will oversee multiple teams focused on Edge networking, K8s platform, CI/CD, Observability, automation platform & tooling.
What you’ll be doing
- Managing a team of SRE’s supporting various workloads and teams that support our IDaaS platform.
- Drive the microservice journey, DevOps maturity, and workload reliability in tandem with architects and teams across the organization.
- Accelerate the velocity of SRE and product engineering by developing powerful tooling, intuitive self-service capabilities, and robust self-healing patterns.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers and managers across platform, infrastructure, and shared services domains.
- Perform engineering design evaluations and ensure the completion of projects within resource, budget, and scheduling constraints.
- Improve SDLC processes for Cloud infrastructure as a code, including the maturity of CI/CD pipelines, change and release management
- Manage service and business expectations and prioritize resource allocation
- Maintain a deep knowledge of industry best practices, evolving trends, and technologies
What you’ll bring to the role
- 3+ years of experience in technical leadership & people management
- Extensive experience using Agile and DevOps methodologies to build product infrastructure and shared service at scale
- Experience running large-scale infrastructure platforms supporting a SaaS/Cloud service in a public Cloud, preferably AWS. Experience supporting a multi-Cloud environment will be a plus.
- Strong expertise in cloud-native architectures, containerization (Kubernetes), IaC (Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong background and hands-on experience in SW development, PaaS and automation
- Deep experience with building and operating observability platforms and monitoring tools (Grafana, Splunk, APM etc.) in a large scale environment.
- Effective verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills
- Computer Science Degree or related degree or equivalent experience
Additional requirements:
- This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.
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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and 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.
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We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.
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