Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (Federal)

Okta
Washington, US
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior technical leaders with federal sector experience who manage cloud-native infrastructure at scale in hybrid work environments.

Best fit for

  • Experienced SRE leaders who have scaled SaaS platforms in AWS environments.
    — “Experience running large-scale infrastructure platforms supporting a SaaS/Cloud service in a public Cloud, preferably AWS
  • Technical managers adept at driving DevOps maturity across teams.
    — “Drive the microservice journey, DevOps maturity, and workload reliability
  • Hands-on architects comfortable with Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
    — “Strong expertise in cloud-native architectures, containerization (Kubernetes), IaC (Terraform)

Things to consider

  • Requires U.S. Person status due to federal data access.
    — “must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate specific examples of building self-healing patterns at scale.
    — “developing powerful tooling, intuitive self-service capabilities, and robust self-healing patterns
  • Highlight multi-cloud experience beyond AWS to differentiate yourself.
    — “Experience supporting a multi-Cloud environment will be a plus
  • Showcase measurable improvements in CI/CD pipeline efficiency.
    — “Improve SDLC processes for Cloud infrastructure as a code
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • High-performing team
  • DevOps maturity
  • Reliability improvements
Typical background
3+ years of technical leadership

Skills & requirements

Required

Site Reliability EngineeringAgile MethodologiesCloud-native ArchitecturesKubernetesTerraformCi/cd PipelinesObservability Platforms

Preferred

Multi-cloud Environment Experience

Stack & domain

AgileDevOpsCloud-native ArchitecturesContainerization (kubernetes)Iac (terraform)Ci/cd PipelinesLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationInfrastructurePlatformShared Services

About the role

Original posting from Okta

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.

Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

District of Columbia Area

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.

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 Sr. 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 our various workloads operating in private sector environments.

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 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, 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.   

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:$207,000—$284,900 USD

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