# Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (Federal)

**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** Washington, DC
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $207k – $285k/yr
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, CI/CD, Grafana, Splunk, DevOps, Observability, Infrastructure As Code, Agile
**Posted:** 2026-05-28

> Lead and mentor multiple SRE teams overseeing Edge networking, Kubernetes platform, CI/CD, observability, and automation tooling for Okta’s high-scale SaaS infrastructure on AWS.

## Job Description

## 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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