Okta authenticates, authorizes and provisions millions of users a day. The service is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) across multiple availability zones and geographically separated regions. The service is designed for high throughput and 99.999 availability.
We're looking for a technical leader to help us continue to scale the service with great people and reliable, cost-effective, and efficient infrastructure, processes, and tooling.
As the Sr. Manager of Infrastructure Platform and Shared Services, you will oversee multiple teams focused on Edge networking, K8s platform, CI/CD, Observability, automation platform & tooling.
- 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
- 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
- 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.