# Director, Site Reliability Engineering

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Bengaluru
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a technical leader to oversee the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organisation, focusing on Okta's platform, databases, edge networking, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, FinOps, and automation.

As the Director of Site Reliability Engineering, you will:

- Build and lead a high-calibre India-based SRE organisation supporting Okta's production fleet.

- Partner with global engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders to deliver resilient, scalable, and secure services.

- Define and execute the India SRE strategy in alignment with global reliability goals.

- Lead post-incident reviews, drive root-cause analysis, and ensure long-term corrective actions.

- Implement automation and observability to reduce manual toil and improve operational efficiency.

- Hire, mentor, and develop top SRE talent across India.

Requirements:

- 16+ years of experience in site reliability, infrastructure, or production engineering roles.

- 8+ years of experience in technical leadership and people management.

- Strong expertise in automation, observability, performance optimisation, and incident response.

- Experience building or scaling offshore SRE teams.

- 4+ years of experience running the SRE org supporting a SaaS/Cloud service in a public Cloud, preferably AWS.

- Strong expertise in cloud-native architectures, containerisation, IaC, and CI/CD pipelines.

## Skills

### Required
- site reliability engineering
- infrastructure
- production engineering
- technical leadership
- people management
- automation
- observability
- performance optimisation
- incident response
- cloud-native architectures
- containerisation
- IaC
- CI/CD pipelines

### Nice to have
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Terraform

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