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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.
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The Infrastructure Platform and Shared Services Team
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.
What You’ll Be Doing
Lead the Infra platform and shared services org and various initiatives across SRE & Infrastructure organization.
Lead the DevOps 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 a 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
What You’ll Bring To The Role
6+ years of experience in technical leadership & people management
Extensive experience using Agile and DevOps 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 SW 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
Additional requirements:
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.
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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.
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
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