Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (Federal)Active$110K

Okta
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The opportunity

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era.

What you'll do

  • Lead and grow a team of SREs operating Okta's FedRAMP High, IL4, and IL5: environments, ensuring reliability and compliance obligations are met simultaneously.

  • Serve as the primary operational relationship manager for federal agency: security leaders — including Authorizing Officials (AOs), ISSOs, and ISSMs — translating technical SRE practices into language and posture appropriate for federal oversight.

  • Own the continuous monitoring program for Okta's federal boundary: coordinate POA&M remediation, drive vulnerability SLA compliance, and represent operational risk posture in ATO reviews.

  • Partner with Okta's GovCloud product and security teams to ensure: infrastructure changes go through FedRAMP-compliant change management processes without sacrificing velocity.

  • Drive incident response and post-incident review processes that satisfy: federal reporting obligations (e.g., FISMA incident notification timelines) while improving system reliability.

  • Manage cross-functional relationships with 3PAOs, federal agency security: teams, and internal compliance, legal, and security stakeholders during audits, ATO renewals, and security assessments.

What they're looking for

  • Maintain operational runbooks, system security plans (SSPs), and evidence: packages that reflect the true state of the environment — not just what audit season requires.
  • Accelerate the federal engineering team's velocity by building compliant: self-service tooling, automation, and CI/CD pipelines that reduce the friction of operating in a restricted environment.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow engineers across the federal SRE organization,: including setting career paths that bridge deep federal compliance knowledge with modern SRE practices.
  • + years of experience in technical leadership and people management, with at: least 3 years in a federal or regulated environment (FedRAMP, DoD, IC, or equivalent).