Manager- Site Reliability Engineering

At Okta, our motto is "Always On"and nowhere do we embrace that more than in Technical Operations. We strive to build the most reliable and performant systems on the planet through the skillful use of automation. If you like to be challenged and have a passion for solving large-scale automation, testing, and tuning problems, we would love to hear from you. The ideal candidate is someone who exemplifies the ethics of, If you have to do something more than once, automate it and who can rapidly self-educate on new concepts and tools.

You will work on:
Mentoring, managing, and leading a team of SREs with a broad range of expertise andexperience.
Being an evangelist and advocate for security best practices, leading initiatives andprojects to strengthen our security posture for our most critical infrastructure.
Responding to production incidents, driving us to remediation as quickly as possible and determining how we can prevent them in the future.
Triaging and troubleshooting complex production issues to ensure reliability andperformance.
Working closely with our stakeholders across the organization to ensure our newcapabilities are aligned to our competing constraints of reliability, security, and deliveryvelocity.
Partnering directly with recruiting and people ops to hire and retain the best talent in theworld.
Keep sharp eyes on our metrics, including vulnerability scanning and security posture,cloud spend, RPO and RTO, and toil overhead, and ensure our projects are driving ourmetrics in the right direction.
Supporting a 24x7 online environment as part of an on-call rotation.

You are an ideal candidate if you:
Are always willing to go the extra mile: see a problem, fix the problem.
Are passionate about encouraging the development of engineering peers and leading by example.
Have experience managing teams running large-scale production Java/Tomcat andcontainerized services in AWS (EC2, ECS, KMS, Kinesis, RDS) or other cloud providers.
Have deep knowledge of CI/CD principles, Linux fundamentals, OS hardening,networking concepts, and IP protocols.

Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Qualities:
4+ years of experience managing SRE or SWE teams, ideally in a cloud native environment.
13+ years Strong leadership, communication, and project management skills.
Strong security background and knowledge.
BS In computer science (or equivalent experience).

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