Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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. Were all in on this mission. If you are too lets talk.

• Design build and operate highly scalable reliable and secure infrastructure powering our production systems across AWS and GCP.
• Lead major reliability and modernization initiatives including container platform migrations (e.g. ECS to EKS/GKE) and microservice enablement across multi-cloud environments.
• Serve as a technical authority in Kubernetes (EKS and GKE) cloud infrastructure (AWS and GCP) and modern CI/CD practices (GitOps automation pipelines).
• Partner with development teams to architect and enable microservice-based applications ensuring production readiness scalability and observability.
• Implement and manage infrastructure as code (Terraform Ansible) to automate provisioning scaling and configuration management across multiple cloud providers.
• Drive improvements in observability performance and cost efficiency through robust monitoring logging and alerting systems that span AWS and GCP.
• Champion SRE best practices defining SLOs/SLIs conducting blameless postmortems and continuously improving incident response.
• Lead complex technical projects from conception to completion managing timelines and technical dependencies across teams.
• Mentor engineers across teams fostering a culture of reliability automation and continuous learning.
• Collaborate with security and compliance partners to ensure infrastructure adheres to best practices and standards (e.g. IAM Federation Workload Identity).
• Participate in the on-call rotation using incidents as learning opportunities to enhance systems and processes.

• Strong hands-on experience architecting and operating cloud-native distributed systems (AWS and GCP).
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes (EKS and GKE) design provisioning scaling and advanced troubleshooting in production.
• Proven experience leading ECS to EKS/GKE migrations and driving microservice enablement initiatives at scale.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform (multi-provider) Ansible or CloudFormation.
• Solid coding and scripting ability in Python Go or Shell with a focus on automation tooling and operational excellence.
• Advanced understanding of CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD GitLab CI Spinnaker) Linux systems and networking fundamentals (Direct Connect/Interconnect DNS routing load balancing) and Redis (must have).
• Experience managing databases and caching systems (e.g. RDS/Cloud SQL Redis/Memorystore PostgreSQL MySQL) in cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools (Prometheus Grafana ELK Loki OpenTelemetry Google Cloud Operations) for performance and reliability insights.
• Working knowledge of container security secrets management (HashiCorp Vault AWS Secrets Manager Google Secret Manager) and compliance in production environments.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills with demonstrated success leading cross-team projects and mentoring peers.

Experience:

• 8 years in SRE DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• 35 years of experience with Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) and related ecosystem tools (Helm Karpenter etc.) in production.
• 35 years of experience with AWS and GCP.
• 35 years using Terraform to manage multi-cloud infrastructure.
• 5 years of coding experience in Python Go or similar languages.
• Proven track record leading high-impact projects specifically migration projects (ECS EKS/GKE) and enabling microservice architectures.
• Experience implementing SLOs/SLIs performing root cause analyses and improving operational resilience.
• Prior work in SaaS or high-scale cloud-native environments is a strong plus.
• Strong Linux and security fundamentals.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent hands-on experience.

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