At a glance
- Experience
- 3-5 years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Bengaluru
About the role
- Okta is looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure powering production systems across AWS and GCP.
- This role involves leading major reliability and modernization initiatives, including container platform migrations and microservice enablement across multi-cloud environments.
- The position serves as a technical authority in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and modern CI/CD practices while partnering with development teams to ensure production readiness.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Participate in the on-call rotation, using incidents as learning opportunities to enhance systems and processes.
Requirements
- 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.
Preferred qualifications
- Prior work in SaaS or high-scale, cloud-native environments is a strong plus.
Benefits
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
Workplace
- Hybrid workplace model with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience.
Skills
- AWS
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- GKE
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Python
- Go
- Shell
- ArgoCD
- GitLab CI
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- Spinnaker
- Prometheus
- Grafana
