Okta Hiring --> Staff SRE role at Bangalore

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 energetic 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.

📌 Site Reliability Engineer (Staff) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Okta
📍 Bengaluru