Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering - Infrastructure Platform

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real‑world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let’s talk.

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.

• Lead the infra platform and shared services org and various initiatives across SRE & infrastructure organization.
• Lead the Dev Ops transformation, microservice journey, and next generation infra platform capabilities in partnership with architects and product engineering.
• Build a world‑class observability platform and monitoring capabilities enabled with self‑service.
• Accelerate the velocity of SRE and product engineering by developing robust platforms, powerful tooling, and intuitive self‑service capabilities.
• Own the design and operation of scalable, self‑service cloud infrastructure platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, service mesh, CI/CD pipelines, IaC & edge infrastructure).
• 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 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.

• 6+ years of experience in technical leadership & people management.
• Extensive experience using Agile and Dev Ops methodologies to build product infrastructure and shared service at scale.
• 3+ years of 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 software development, PaaS and automation.
• Deep experience with building and operating observability platforms and monitoring tools (Grafana, Splunk, APM etc.) in a large scale environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross‑functional teams and manage large‑scale programs.
• 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.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between: $176,000 — $264,000 USD.

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay…