Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Okta Inc

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Washington, DC
Salary
$207,000–$284,900 / yr
Posted
43 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $246k
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This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $157,562–$217,668 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $246k versus about $188k for comparable roles.

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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.[

Okta Inc currently has 137 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $174,000–$239,000 across 137 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (Federal) joins the Federal Operations Engineering Group to oversee the operational health of FedRAMP-authorized, IL4, and IL5 environments. This leadership role involves managing a team of SREs while serving as the primary point of contact for federal security stakeholders like AOs and ISSOs. Key responsibilities include overseeing continuous monitoring programs, coordinating POA&M remediation, ensuring FISMA compliance during incident responses, and maintaining system security plans. The candidate will build compliant self-service tooling, automation, and CI/CD pipelines to improve engineering velocity within restricted environments. Required expertise includes Kubernetes, Terraform, infrastructure as code, and observability tools. The role addresses the complex challenge of balancing high availability with strict federal security requirements, ensuring that technical SRE practices align with mandatory compliance frameworks like NIST SP 800-53 and DISA STIGs for government customers.

What you'll do

  • Lead and grow a team of SREs managing FedRAMP High, IL4, and IL5 environments.
  • Serve as the primary operational point of contact for federal agency security leaders and stakeholders.
  • Manage the continuous monitoring program including POA&M remediation and vulnerability SLA compliance.
  • Coordinate infrastructure changes with product teams to ensure they meet FedRAMP-compliant processes.
  • Execute incident response and post-incident reviews that satisfy federal reporting requirements.
  • Manage relationships with 3PAOs and internal legal/security teams during audits and ATO renewals.
  • Maintain operational runbooks, system security plans, and evidence packages for compliance audits.
  • Develop automated tooling and CI/CD pipelines to reduce friction in restricted environments.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 5+ years of experience in technical leadership and people management.
  • Must have at least 3 years of experience in a federal or regulated environment such as FedRAMP, DoD, or IC.
  • Must demonstrate experience managing relationships with federal security stakeholders like AOs, ISSOs, and agency CISOs.
  • Must possess working knowledge of NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP frameworks, FISMA reporting, and DISA STIGs.
  • Must have experience operating large-scale cloud infrastructure in FedRAMP environments, preferably AWS GovCloud.
  • Must have a background in SRE or platform engineering including Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and incident management.
  • Active or current eligibility for a federal security clearance (Secret or above) is preferred.
  • U.S. Citizenship.

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