Director, Site Reliability Engineering
Core
Lead the India-based Site Reliability Engineering organization to support Okta's global production fleet, ensuring high availability and scalability for identity services.
Role type
Director, Site Reliability Engineering (India-based)
Builds
Okta platform, Databases, Edge networking, K8s platform, CI/CD, Observability, FinOps, and automation platform & tooling
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Identity Security / SaaS
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Technical leadership, people management (managing managers), automation, observability, performance optimization, incident response, cloud-native architectures, containerization, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, cross-functional team leadership, large-scale program management
Preferred skills
Experience building or scaling offshore SRE teams, multi-cloud environment support
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
Responsibilities
Build and lead a high-caliber India-based SRE organization; Partner with global engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders; Define and execute the India SRE strategy; Lead post-incident reviews and root-cause analysis; Implement automation and observability; Hire, mentor, and develop top SRE talent; Foster collaboration across time zones; Manage service and business expectations; Accelerate engineering velocity through robust platforms and tooling; Improve SDLC processes for Cloud infrastructure
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with strategic oversight