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If you are too, let's talk.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\nDesign, build, and operate highly scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure powering our production systems across AWS and GCP.\nLead major reliability and modernization initiatives, including container platform migrations (e.g., ECS to EKS/GKE) and microservice enablement across multi-cloud environments.\nServe as a technical authority in Kubernetes (EKS and GKE), cloud infrastructure (AWS and GCP), and modern CI/CD practices (GitOps, automation pipelines).\nPartner with development teams to architect and enable microservice-based applications, ensuring production readiness, scalability, and observability.\nImplement and manage infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible) to automate provisioning, scaling, and configuration management across multiple cloud providers.\nDrive improvements in observability, performance, and cost efficiency through robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems that span AWS and GCP.\nChampion SRE best practices - defining SLOs/SLIs, conducting blameless postmortems, and continuously improving incident response.\nLead complex technical projects from conception to completion, managing timelines, and technical dependencies across teams.\nMentor engineers across teams, fostering a culture of reliability, automation, and continuous learning.\nCollaborate with security and compliance partners to ensure infrastructure adheres to best practices and standards (e.g., IAM Federation, Workload Identity).\nParticipate in the on-call rotation, using incidents as learning opportunities to enhance systems and processes.\nWhat You’ll Bring to the Role:\nStrong hands-on experience architecting and operating cloud-native distributed systems (AWS and GCP).\nDeep expertise with Kubernetes (EKS and GKE) - design, provisioning, scaling, and advanced troubleshooting in production.\nProven experience leading ECS to EKS/GKE migrations and driving microservice enablement initiatives at scale.\nProficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform (multi-provider), Ansible, or CloudFormation.\nSolid coding and scripting ability in Python, Go, or Shell, with a focus on automation, tooling, and operational excellence.\nAdvanced understanding of CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, GitLab CI, Spinnaker), Linux systems, and networking fundamentals (Direct Connect/Interconnect, DNS, routing, load balancing).\nExperience managing databases and caching systems (e.g., RDS/Cloud SQL, Redis/Memorystore, PostgreSQL, MySQL) in cloud environments.\nHands-on experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Google Cloud Operations) for performance and reliability insights.\nWorking knowledge of container security, secrets management (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Google Secret Manager), and compliance in production environments.\nStrong communication and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated success leading cross-team projects and mentoring peers.\nExperience:\n5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.\n3-5 years of experience with Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) and related ecosystem tools (Helm, Karpenter, etc.) in production.\n3-5 years of experience with AWS and GCP.\n3-5 years using Terraform to manage multi-cloud infrastructure.\n5+ years of coding experience in Python, Go, or similar languages.\nProven track record leading high-impact projects, specifically migration projects (ECS → EKS/GKE) and enabling microservice architectures.\nExperience implementing SLOs/SLIs, performing root cause analyses, and improving operational resilience.\nPrior work in SaaS or high-scale, cloud-native environments is a strong plus.\nStrong Linux and security fundamentals.\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent hands-on experience.\n#LI_Hybrid. \nP25722_3572561\nThe Okta Experience\nSupporting Your Well-Being \nDriving Social Impact \nDeveloping Talent and Fostering Connection + Community\nWe are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.\nOkta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.\nIf reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.\nNotice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. 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