Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (Federal)

Location: Washington, DC; hybrid. U.S. Citizenship and documentation establishing U.S. Person status are required to access federal environments and protected federal data.

Salary: $207,000–$284,900 annual base salary, plus potential equity, bonus, and benefits.

Company

Okta builds identity infrastructure that helps organizations securely manage access for AI and human users.

What you will do

• Lead and grow SRE teams operating FedRAMP High, IL4, and IL5 environments.
• Manage operational relationships with federal security leaders, including AOs, ISSOs, and ISSMs.
• Own continuous monitoring, POA&M remediation, vulnerability SLA compliance, and operational risk reporting for the federal boundary.
• Partner with GovCloud product and security teams on FedRAMP-compliant infrastructure changes.
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews while meeting federal reporting obligations.
• Maintain runbooks, SSPs, evidence packages, compliant self-service tooling, automation, and CI/CD pipelines.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical leadership and people management experience, including at least 3 years in a federal or regulated environment.
• Experience working directly with federal security stakeholders and supporting FedRAMP ATO processes, continuous monitoring, or FISMA assessments.
• Knowledge of NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP authorization frameworks, FISMA reporting requirements, and DISA STIGs.
• Experience operating large-scale cloud infrastructure in FedRAMP-authorized environments; AWS GovCloud experience is preferred.
• Strong SRE or platform engineering background with Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and incident management.
• U.S. Citizenship and U.S. Person documentation are required; active or current eligibility for a Secret-or-higher federal security clearance may be required for some programs.

Nice to have

• Experience with IL4 or IL5 environments.
• Active or current eligibility for a federal security clearance at Secret level or above.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
• Equity and bonus opportunities where applicable.
• Opportunities for talent development, community connection, and social impact.