Site Reliability Engineer (Staff)

Okta; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta in Bengaluru is seeking a Staff / Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and manage Kubernetes platforms on AWS, ensuring high availability, performance, and cost optimisation. The role emphasizes platform creation, reliability, and automation across cloud-native services.

You will design scalable Kubernetes architectures, helm charts, Istio service mesh, and implement pipelines with Jenkins/GitLab, Terraform, and Karpenter for dynamic scaling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes/K8s, Helm, Karpenter, Istio.
• 8+ years of experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Chef or Ansible.
• 8+ years of experience with serverless computing (AWS Lambda, API Gateway) and microservices architecture.
• Proven experience with AWS (EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, IAM, etc.) and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes platform creation, management, and optimisation.
• Hands-on experience with Helm for Kubernetes deployment and management.
• Experience with Karpenter for dynamic scaling and Istio for service mesh.
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and automation (Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, Terraform, Spinnaker, Ansible).
• Strong scripting in Python or Go for infrastructure management.
• Experience with monitoring/logging/alerting: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK Stack.

Skills

Kubernetes

Helm

Karpenter

Istio

Python

Go

CI/CD

Automation

Cloud architecture

Monitoring

Tools

Terraform

Chef

Ansible

Jenkins

GitLab

CircleCI

Spinnaker

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

ELK Stack

Job description

Position Overview:

The Staff / Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will play a key role in building and managing Kubernetes platforms that support cloud-native applications and services. This position focuses on architecting and managing reliable, scalable, and secure Kubernetes-based platforms on AWS, ensuring high availability and performance while optimising costs and automation. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes platform creation, Helm charts, Karpenter scaling, and Istio service mesh.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes/ K8s, Helm,Karpenter,Istio;
• 8+ years of Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Chef or Ansible
• 8+ years of Experience with serverless computing (AWS Lambda, API Gateway) and microservices architecture.
• Proven experience with AWS (EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, IAM, etc.) and solid understanding of cloud-native architectures.
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes platform creation, management, and optimisation (e.g., setting up highly available clusters, networking, and storage).
• Hands-on experience with Helm for Kubernetes application deployment and management.
• Practical experience with Karpenter for dynamic scaling of Kubernetes clusters and optimising resource usage.
• Expertise in managing and securing Istio for service mesh, including traffic management, security, and observability features.
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, Terraform, Spinnaker, Ansible).
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python or Go for infrastructure management and platform automation.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and ELK Stack.