Director, Site Reliability Engineering

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.