Manager, Site Reliability Engineering
Lead and grow teams of SREs and managers responsible for Edge networking, Kubernetes platform, CI/CD, observability, and automation tooling that powers Okta's high-availability IDaaS platform on AWS. Drive DevOps maturity, self-service capabilities, reliability, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
About the job
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.
Skills
Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, CI/CD, Observability, Grafana, Splunk, DevOps, Agile, Iac, Paas, Microservices
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