Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Okta; Dublin; On-site; EUR 92,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Healthcare

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Okta is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to shape our Dublin/EMEA Kubernetes platform and drive reliability at scale. You will lead architectural decisions, coordinate with US/India teams, and own complex incidents while mentoring engineers across the Dublin team.

You will guide platform readiness for AI-driven workflows, implement SLOs and on-call standards, and advance IaC, CI/CD, and release processes in a fast-growing, global environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in SRE/Platform or Infra Engineering with staff-level leadership
• Hands-on expertise in Kubernetes at production scale, multi-tenancy, networking, security
• Experience running large-scale internal infrastructure in a public cloud (AWS preferred)
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with AI/ML workflows hosting, model serving, or orchestration frameworks
• Observability mastery with Grafana/Splunk/APM in large environments
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams and geographies
• Excellent verbal and written communication; mentoring and alignment across distributed teams
• CS degree or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and evolution of Kubernetes platform for Dublin/EMEA
• Lead design and rollout of self-service platform capabilities and self-healing patterns
• Drive readiness to host AI-driven internal workflows at scale
• Own high-ambiguity reliability problems and drive incident postmortems
• Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotation with US/India teams
• Set SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and on-call standards
• Improve SDLC for infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD maturity, and release management
• Mentor engineers and raise technical standards through reviews and design discussions
• Collaborate with security, product, and architecture to align infra decisions
• Represent Dublin/EMEA in global platform architecture discussions

Skills

SRE leadership

Kubernetes production

Cloud architectures

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Observability platforms

Effective communication

Mentoring engineers

Distributed teamwork

Education

Bachelor's in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

ArgoCD/Flux

Grafana

Splunk

APM tools

Job description

Okta authenticates, authorises, and provisions millions of users a day. Internally, TDI Infrastructure Engineering runs the platforms that our own engineering and business teams build on — hosted on AWS, increasingly Kubernetes-native, and expanding fast to support AI-driven internal workflows. We're looking for a Staff SRE to help us evolve Site Reliability Engineering from a traditional operations model into a true Platform as a Service (PaaS) organization.

As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer on our Dublin/EMEA team, you will be the senior-most technical voice on the ground — setting architectural direction for our Kubernetes platform, driving the hardest reliability and scaling problems to resolution, and partnering with Staff/Principal engineers on our US and India teams to keep our global platform strategy coherent. You'll report to the Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering, and work alongside a Senior SRE and the rest of the Dublin team.

What you'll be doing

• Owning the architecture and evolution of our Kubernetes platform for the Dublin/EMEA team - cluster strategy, multi-tenancy, networking, and security posture - in close coordination with counterparts in the US and India
• Leading the technical design and rollout of self-service platform capabilities, golden paths, and self-healing patterns that let internal teams ship and operate workflows without deep platform expertise
• Driving the platform's readiness to host AI-driven internal workflows reliably at scale - model serving, GPU scheduling, and orchestration infrastructure
• Taking ownership of the hardest, highest-ambiguity reliability problems: complex production incidents, capacity and scaling challenges, and cross-system failure modes
• Participating in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation shared with SRE peers in the US and India, and driving root-cause resolution and postmortems for the incidents you own
• Setting technical standards for SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and on-call practice, and holding the team accountable to them
• Improving SDLC processes for infrastructure-as-code, including CI/CD pipeline maturity and change/release management
• Mentoring engineers across the team and raising the technical bar through design reviews, architecture discussions, and hands-on pairing
• Partnering with architects, security, and product engineering teams to align infrastructure decisions with the business's reliability, security, and delivery needs
• Representing the Dublin/EMEA team in global platform architecture discussions, working as a peer with Staff/Principal-level engineers in the US and India

What you'll bring to the role

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering, with a track record of staff-level technical leadership
• Deep, hands-on expertise in Kubernetes at production scale - architecture, multi-tenant, networking, security, and day-2 operations
• Experience running large-scale internal infrastructure platforms in a public cloud, preferably AWS
• Strong expertise in cloud-native architectures, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience building or operating infrastructure that hosts AI/ML or agentic workflows - model serving, GPU scheduling, or orchestration frameworks
• Deep experience with observability platforms and monitoring tools (Grafana, Splunk, APM, or equivalent) in a large-scale environment
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams and geographies without formal authority
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, with experience mentoring engineers and driving technical alignment across distributed teams
• Computer Science degree or related field, or equivalent experience

Extra credit if you have experience in any of the following

• Building internal developer platforms (IDPs) with a "platform as a product" mindset
• Hands-on experience with AI agent orchestration, vector databases, model routing, or inference optimization infrastructure
• Multi-cloud experience (AWS plus Azure or GCP)
• Service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) or GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux) in production Kubernetes environments
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS, CKAD) or equivalent cloud certifications
• Experience managing or administering an enterprise-scale SCM platform (GitHub, GitLab, or equivalent)

Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Ireland. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and comprehensive healthcare coverage and financial benefits including paid time off and parental leave in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/irl.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Ireland is between:: €92.000 EUR - €126.500 EUR

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