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.

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

Company

Okta provides identity infrastructure that helps organizations securely manage access for people and AI systems.

What you will do

• Lead and grow an SRE team operating FedRAMP High, IL4, and IL5 environments.
• Manage operational relationships with federal security stakeholders, 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 compliant infrastructure changes and change management.
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews aligned with federal reporting obligations.
• Maintain runbooks, SSPs, evidence packages, and 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 managing relationships with federal security stakeholders and supporting FedRAMP ATO, continuous monitoring, or FISMA assessment processes.
• Knowledge of NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP, FISMA, and DISA STIGs.
• Experience with 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 status are required; an active or current Secret-or-higher clearance may be required for certain programs.

Nice to have

• IL4/IL5 experience.
• Active or current eligibility for a federal security clearance at Secret level or above.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a global community spanning more than 20 offices.
• Immersive in-person onboarding.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k), flexible spending account, PTO, and parental leave.
• Opportunities for talent development, connection, and social impact.