Manager, Site Reliability Engineer

About the Role

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading the architecture, design, and rollout of the internal developer platform, spanning CI/CD, tooling, infrastructure as code (IAC) integrations, and modernization efforts.
• Enhancing existing automation for fleet management and building new features for the infrastructure platform.
• Spearheading initiatives and projects to enhance engineer productivity by identifying and mitigating bottlenecks in the development flow.
• Mentoring, managing, and leading a team of SWEs and SREs with a broad range of expertise and experience.
• Triaging and troubleshooting complex production issues to ensure reliability and performance.
• Working closely with stakeholders across the organization to align new capabilities with the competing constraints of reliability, security, and delivery velocity.
• Partnering directly with recruiting and people ops to hire and retain talent.
• Monitoring metrics, including vulnerability scanning and security posture, cloud spend, RPO, RTO, and toil overhead, and ensuring projects drive these metrics in the right direction.
• Supporting a 24x7 online environment as part of an on-call rotation.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Platform-as-Product Mindset: Proven track record of building and scaling internal developer platforms (IDP) that treat internal engineering teams as customers, focusing on reducing cognitive load and improving developer velocity.
• Engineering Excellence in Tooling: Deep experience in the "Software" part of SRE, leading teams to build robust, automated tooling for CI/CD orchestration, Kubernetes operators, or self-service infrastructure provisioning (IaC).
• Automation First: A history of transitioning teams from manual "toil-heavy" operations to automated, code-driven workflows that interact safely with high-scale cloud production environments.
• Always willing to go the extra mile: see a problem, fix the problem.
• Passionate about encouraging the development of engineering peers and leading by example.
• Experience managing teams running large-scale production Java/Tomcat and containerized services in AWS (EC2, ECS, KMS, Kinesis, RDS) or other cloud providers.
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD principles, Linux fundamentals, OS hardening, networking concepts, and IP protocols.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing SWE or SRE teams, ideally in a cloud-native environment.
• Strong leadership, communication, and project management skills.
• Strong security background and knowledge.
• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).