- Company: Okta
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Job type: Full-time
About the role
Okta is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to help secure identity infrastructure for AI and human users. You will design, build, and operate highly scalable and reliable systems across AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This position involves leading major modernization efforts, such as migrating container platforms and enabling microservices, while acting as a technical authority on Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Design and operate secure, scalable infrastructure for production systems on AWS and GCP.
- Lead reliability and modernization projects, including migrations from ECS to EKS/GKE and microservice enablement.
- Serve as a technical expert in Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), cloud infrastructure, and modern CI/CD practices like GitOps.
- Partner with development teams to architect microservice applications, ensuring scalability and observability.
- Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible to automate provisioning and configuration.
- Improve observability, performance, and cost efficiency through robust monitoring and alerting systems.
- Champion SRE best practices, including defining SLOs/SLIs and conducting blameless postmortems.
- Mentor engineers and foster a culture of reliability and continuous learning.
- Collaborate with security partners to ensure compliance with standards like IAM Federation and Workload Identity.
- Participate in on-call rotations to enhance systems through incident learning.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
- 3–5 years of production experience with Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) and related tools like Helm and Karpenter.
- 3–5 years of experience with AWS and GCP environments.
- 3–5 years of experience managing multi-cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
- 5+ years of coding experience in Python, Go, or similar languages.
- Proven track record leading high-impact migration projects (ECS to EKS/GKE) and microservice architectures.
- Strong proficiency in CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, GitLab CI, Spinnaker), Linux systems, and networking fundamentals.
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
- Working knowledge of container security, secrets management, and compliance in production.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent hands-on experience.
Pay and benefits
The job advertisement does not specify a salary range. Okta offers a global community with over 20 offices, an immersive in-person onboarding experience, and initiatives focused on well-being, social impact, and talent development. The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
How to apply
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