Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Okta
Dublin
Workplace: HybridFull timeEUR 92,000 - 126,500 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentoring","Communication","Cross-team influence"]

Own the evolution of a Kubernetes platform for Okta’s Dublin/EMEA team, setting cluster and security direction and leading self-service platform capabilities. Drive reliability for AI-driven internal workflows at scale, handling ambiguous production incidents and capacity challenges. Establish SLI/SLO standards, improve infrastructure-as-code SDLC and CI/CD maturity, mentor engineers, and partner across US/India teams to keep global platform strategy coherent.

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Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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Job Summary

Own the evolution of a Kubernetes platform for Okta’s Dublin/EMEA team, setting cluster and security direction and leading self-service platform capabilities. Drive reliability for AI-driven internal workflows at scale, handling ambiguous production incidents and capacity challenges. Establish SLI/SLO standards, improve infrastructure-as-code SDLC and CI/CD maturity, mentor engineers, and partner across US/India teams to keep global platform strategy coherent.
Location: Dublin
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the architecture and evolution of the Kubernetes platform for Dublin/EMEA, including cluster strategy, multi-tenancy, networking, and security posture.
  • •Lead technical design and rollout of self-service platform capabilities (golden paths and self-healing patterns) for internal teams.
  • •Drive reliability at scale for AI-driven internal workflows, including model serving, GPU scheduling, and orchestration infrastructure.
  • •Handle high-ambiguity production incidents, capacity/scaling challenges, and cross-system failure modes, including root-cause resolution and postmortems.
  • •Set SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, improve infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD/change/release management, and mentor engineers through design reviews and pairing.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 92,000 - 126,500 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceEquityAnnual BonusPaid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering with staff-level technical leadership impact.
  • •Deep hands-on Kubernetes expertise at production scale, including architecture, multi-tenancy, networking, security, and day-2 operations.
  • •Experience operating 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 with observability (e.g., Grafana and Splunk/APM) and hosting infrastructure for AI/ML or agentic workflows (model serving, GPU scheduling, or orchestration).
Experience:8+ yearsSREPlatform engineeringInfrastructure engineeringKubernetesAWSAI/ML infrastructure
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science
Skills:Technical leadershipMentoringCommunicationCross-team influence
Certifications:CKACKSCKAD
Tech Stack:KubernetesAWSTerraformCI/CDGrafanaSplunkAPMGPU schedulingOrchestration infrastructureModel servingInfrastructure-as-codeIstioLinkerdArgoCDFluxGitOpsGitHubGitLabVector databasesModel routing

Company Brief

Okta
Provides identity and access management cloud solutions that help organizations secure and manage user authentication, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management across applications and devices.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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