Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (Federal)

Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (Federal)

Okta's Federal Operations team supports government customers in FedRAMP-authorized, IL4, and IL5 environments, delivering a 99.999% availability promise while meeting federal security, compliance, and operational requirements. This role owns the operational health of federal environments, leads engineers working within compliance-governed change processes, and serves as a trusted contact for federal security stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow SRE teams operating FedRAMP High, IL4, and IL5 environments while meeting reliability and compliance obligations.
• Manage operational relationships with federal agency security leaders, including Authorizing Officials, ISSOs, and ISSMs; translate SRE practices into language appropriate for federal oversight.
• Own continuous monitoring for the federal boundary, coordinate POA&M remediation, drive vulnerability SLA compliance, and represent operational risk in ATO reviews.
• Partner with GovCloud product and security teams on FedRAMP-compliant infrastructure change management.
• Drive incident response and post-incident reviews that satisfy federal reporting obligations, including FISMA notification timelines, while improving reliability.
• Coordinate with 3PAOs, agency security teams, and internal compliance, legal, and security stakeholders during audits, ATO renewals, and security assessments.
• Maintain operational runbooks, system security plans, and accurate evidence packages.
• Build compliant self-service tooling, automation, and CI/CD pipelines to improve engineering velocity in restricted environments.
• Mentor engineers and develop career paths combining federal compliance expertise with modern SRE practices.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of technical leadership and people management experience, including at least 3 years in a federal or regulated environment such as FedRAMP, DoD, or IC.
• Demonstrated experience managing relationships with federal security stakeholders such as AOs, ISSOs, and agency CISOs.
• Working 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 is preferred; IL4/IL5 experience is a strong plus.
• Strong SRE or platform engineering background, including Kubernetes, infrastructure as code using Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and incident management.
• Ability to balance compliance and reliability, including knowing when CAB review is needed and when a P1 incident requires urgent action followed by documentation.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and comfort presenting operational risk and reliability to nontechnical federal security officials.
• Experience supporting or leading FedRAMP ATO processes, continuous monitoring programs, or FISMA annual assessments.
• U.S. citizenship is listed as required.
• Active federal security clearance or current eligibility at Secret level or above is a plus and may be required for certain program support.

Federal Access Requirements

The position requires access to federal environments and/or protected federal data. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate must provide documentation establishing U.S. Person status upon hire under 22 CFR 120.15. The posting lists U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee as examples.

Location and Compensation

• Location: Washington, DC; hybrid.
• Annual base salary: $207,000–$284,900 USD for candidates in California excluding the San Francisco Bay Area, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington. Actual base salary depends on skills, qualifications, experience, and work location.
• Equity where applicable, bonus, health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave, subject to applicable plans and policies.

Onboarding and Application Information

• Onboarding includes an immersive, in-person experience.
• Reasonable accommodations for applications, interviews, or onboarding may be requested through the employer's accommodation form.
• Okta may use automated employment decision tools in recruitment and hiring; a separate NYC AEDT notice is available for New York City applicants and employees.