Description
Okta is seeking a Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering to lead the Dublin/EMEA team. The successful candidate will be responsible for evolving Site Reliability Engineering from a traditional operations model into a true Platform as a Service (PaaS) organization.
The Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering will set the strategic direction for the regional engineering hub, drive operational rigor and team execution, and partner with engineering leaders and Principal/Staff engineers on US and India teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the Dublin/EMEA Site Reliability Engineering team responsible for the architecture, availability, and evolution of the Kubernetes platform
- Driving the strategic roadmap and organizational delivery of self-service platform capabilities, golden paths, and self-healing patterns
- Directing team execution and operational readiness to host AI-driven internal workflows reliably at scale
- Serving as an operational escalation point for the hardest, highest-ambiguity reliability problems, cross-regional incidents, and platform scaling challenges
- Overseeing EMEA participation in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation shared with SRE teams in the US and India
- Establishing and enforcing organizational standards for SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, operational readiness reviews, and on-call health
- Championing modern SDLC and GitOps practices for infrastructure-as-code
- Hiring, retaining, and developing diverse engineering talent across all levels
- Partnering with product engineering, security, and enterprise architecture leaders to align infrastructure initiatives with broader reliability, compliance, and business roadmaps
- Representing the Dublin/EMEA region in global platform leadership forums
The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering, with 3+ years in formal people management. They will also have a demonstrated track record of leading teams that operate Kubernetes platforms and large-scale cloud-native environments in production.
Okta offers various benefits, including supporting well-being, driving social impact, and developing talent and fostering connection + community.
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