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Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Join Okta as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to design and operate scalable infrastructure across AWS and GCP.

Location
Bengaluru, India
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
staff
Type
full time · Hybrid

Posted by employer 6 hours ago

First seen on Joblaze 4 hours ago

Last verified on the company career page 4 hours ago

What you'll build

  • Design, build, and operate scalable infrastructure
  • Lead reliability and modernization initiatives
  • Implement and manage infrastructure as code
  • Drive improvements in observability and performance
  • Mentor engineers across teams

Must have

  • 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
  • 3–5 years of experience with Kubernetes
  • 3–5 years of experience with AWS and GCP
  • 5+ years of coding experience in Python, Go, or similar languages
  • Proven experience leading ECS to EKS/GKE migrations

Nice to have

  • Prior work in SaaS or high-scale, cloud-native environments
  • Strong Linux and security fundamentals

Requirements

Experience
8+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree

Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Okta is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable and secure infrastructure across AWS and GCP. Key skills include deep expertise in Kubernetes, proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, and a solid understanding of CI/CD practices. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with over eight years of experience in SRE or DevOps, particularly those who have led significant migration projects and have a strong background in cloud-native environments.

Joblaze insights

Quick facts

Is the Staff Site Reliability Engineer role remote?
It's hybrid — Okta expects some on-site time in Bengaluru, India.
How much experience is required?
At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Staff Site Reliability Engineer role.
Where is the role based?
Okta is hiring for this position in Bengaluru, India.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, AWS Secrets Manager, Ansible, ArgoCD, ELK, GCP.
What seniority level is this role?
Okta targets staff-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Staff Site Reliability Engineer role at Okta.

From the original posting

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What You’ll Be Doing

  • Design, build, and operate highly scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure powering our production systems across AWS and GCP.
  • Lead major reliability and modernization initiatives, including container platform migrations (e.g., ECS to EKS/GKE) and microservice enablement across multi-cloud environments.
  • Serve as a technical authority in Kubernetes (EKS and GKE), cloud infrastructure (AWS and GCP), and modern CI/CD practices (GitOps, automation pipelines).
  • Partner with development teams to architect and enable microservice-based applications, ensuring production readiness, scalability, and observability.
  • Implement and manage infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible) to automate provisioning, scaling, and configuration management across multiple cloud providers.
  • Drive improvements in observability, performance, and cost efficiency through robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems that span AWS and GCP.
  • Champion SRE best practices — defining SLOs/SLIs, conducting blameless postmortems, and continuously improving incident response.
  • Lead complex technical projects from conception to completion, managing timelines, and technical dependencies across teams.
  • Mentor engineers across teams, fostering a culture of reliability, automation, and continuous learning.
  • Collaborate with security and compliance partners to ensure infrastructure adheres to best practices and standards (e.g., IAM Federation, Workload Identity).
  • Participate in the on-call rotation, using incidents as learning opportunities to enhance systems and processes.

What You’ll Bring to the Role:

  • Strong hands-on experience architecting and operating cloud-native distributed systems (AWS and GCP).
  • Deep expertise with Kubernetes (EKS and GKE) — design, provisioning, scaling, and advanced troubleshooting in production.
  • Proven experience leading ECS to EKS/GKE migrations and driving microservice enablement initiatives at scale.
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform (multi-provider), Ansible, or CloudFormation.
  • Solid coding and scripting ability in Python, Go, or Shell, with a focus on automation, tooling, and operational excellence.
  • Advanced understanding of CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, GitLab CI, Spinnaker), Linux systems, and networking fundamentals (Direct Connect/Interconnect, DNS, routing, load balancing) and Redis (must have).
  • Experience managing databases and caching systems (e.g., RDS/Cloud SQL, Redis/Memorystore, PostgreSQL, MySQL) in cloud environments.
  • Hands-on experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Google Cloud Operations) for performance and reliability insights.
  • Working knowledge of container security, secrets management (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Google Secret Manager), and compliance in production environments.
  • Strong communication and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated success leading cross-team projects and mentoring peers.

Experience:

  • 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
  • 3–5 years of experience with Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) and related ecosystem tools (Helm, Karpenter, etc.) in production.
  • 3–5 years of experience with AWS and GCP.
  • 3–5 years using Terraform to manage multi-cloud infrastructure.
  • 5+ years of coding experience in Python, Go, or similar languages.
  • Proven track record leading high-impact projects, specifically migration projects (ECS → EKS/GKE) and enabling microservice architectures.
  • Experience implementing SLOs/SLIs, performing root cause analyses, and improving operational resilience.
  • Prior work in SaaS or high-scale, cloud-native environments is a strong plus.
  • Strong Linux and security fundamentals.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent hands-on experience.

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