Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Linux) in Bengaluru to enhance automation, reliability, and performance of distributed systems. You will design and maintain infrastructure, tools, and processes that scale for engineers globally.

The role focuses on improving monitoring, deployment tooling, and system stability, collaborating across teams to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Specialize in Linux administration with Python and Bash scripting.
• Proficiency with Salt Stack, Ansible, Terraform and CI/CD tools like Jenkins.
• Expertise with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, Splunk, and Docker.
• Kubernetes experience on any cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Developing processes, plans, and infrastructure to deploy new software components and updates safely and efficiently at scale.
• Improve our monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability.

Skills

Linux admin

Python

Bash scripting

SaltStack

Ansible

Terraform

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/OpenSearch

Datadog

Splunk

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Salt Stack

Terraform

Job description

Job Description:

Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?

Would you like an opportunity to effect change at a leading technology organization?

Join our Site Reliability team

The Akamai Cloud Technology Engineering team owns, develops and manages the solutions used by our engineers globally. These solutions help to run one of the largest distributed systems in the world. We work closely with internal teams and stakeholders to create innovative, powerful, scalable, highly reliable and secure systems at scale.

Partner with the best

This Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Linux) role involves improving automation and efficiency for internal teams while ensuring operational excellence. Responsibilities include enhancing system reliability, scalability, and performance by designing and maintaining infrastructure, tools, and processes. Collaborate to address technical challenges, optimize deployments, and support applications. Drive continuous improvement through workflow automation, system monitoring, and performance optimization to achieve organizational objectives.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Developing processes, plans, and infrastructure to deploy new software components and updates safely and efficiently at scale
• Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability
• Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
• Specialize in Linux administration, demonstrating expertise in Python and Bash scripting languages for advanced systems management and automation tasks.
• Utilize Salt Stack, Ansible, Terraform for infrastructure automation, alongside CI/CD tools including Jenkins for streamlined deployment and management.
• Demonstrate expertise with observability or monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Open Search, Datadog, and Splunk, Docker
• Have hand-on mastery with Kubernetes experience with any cloud platform, such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or an equivalent alternative

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether youre streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, were the engine behind the scenes. We provide the worlds most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery: Scaling the worlds biggest moments without a glitch.

AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the worlds most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we dont just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And were the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your jobs needs

Akamais FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. Its not about telling employees where to work; its about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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