As the Manager of Infrastructure Platform and Shared Services within Okta’s Site Reliability Engineering Group in San Francisco, you will lead a team responsible for maintaining high availability and reliability across Okta's Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) platform. Your daily responsibilities include driving microservice adoption, enhancing DevOps practices, and developing robust self-healing patterns to support the platform's scalability. You will also mentor engineers, manage service expectations, and ensure compliance with industry best practices. The role requires expertise in cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, Terraform for infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines, along with hands-on experience in software development and observability tools like Grafana and Splunk. This position is crucial for a company that authenticates millions of users daily on AWS, emphasizing the need for reliable, efficient, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions at scale.
Manage a team of SREs supporting various workloads and teams for the IDaaS platform.
Drive microservice journey and DevOps maturity to enhance workload reliability.
Develop powerful tooling, intuitive self-service capabilities, and robust self-healing patterns.
Lead and mentor high-performing engineers and managers across multiple domains.
Improve SDLC processes for Cloud infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
Maintain deep knowledge of industry best practices, trends, and technologies.
What we're looking for
3+ years of experience in technical leadership and people management
Extensive experience using Agile and DevOps methodologies for large-scale infrastructure
Strong expertise in cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines
Deep hands-on experience with software development, PaaS, and automation
Experience running large-scale infrastructure platforms supporting SaaS/Cloud services on AWS
Effective verbal, written communication skills and strong interpersonal abilities
Computer Science Degree or equivalent technical experience
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About Okta Inc
Okta, Inc. is an American identity and access management company based in San Francisco. It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, websites, web services, and devices.[
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