Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai; India; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Benefits at Akamai

Job summary

Akamai seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Compute Site Reliability team in India. You will build and maintain tools that improve observability and reliability across Akamai's compute products and services.

You will partner with operations and engineering teams to deploy scalable, robust systems, guide colleagues on best practices, and troubleshoot complex problems in production environments. This role emphasizes automation and cloud-native design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 6 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a related engineering role with Linux system administration expertise.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, routing/switching) and storage concepts.
• Hands-on experience with containerized environments and Kubernetes; operating and troubleshooting production systems.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices with tools like Jenkins, Git, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, or similar tools; exposure to cloud storage systems.

Responsibilities

• Solve complex problems via proactive troubleshooting, automation and systems programming.
• Deploy and maintain observability platform and internal tooling.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure reliability, scalability and usability of products and services.
• Provide guidance to engineers to increase confidence in service performance.
• Coordinate with support, operations, and engineering to investigate and troubleshoot issues.

Skills

Linux system administration

Networking fundamentals

Kubernetes

CI/CD DevOps

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Jenkins

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

SaltStack

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Do you like collaborating across teams to solve complex problems?

Do you enjoy solving large scale distributed content delivery challenges?

Join our highly skilled Compute Site Reliability team

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We specialize in creating solutions that help improve observability and enforce SLAs across all internal teams.

Partner with the best

As a Site Reliability Engineer Senior, you will collaborate across operations teams and application development teams. Together, you will be creating tooling and software that monitors and improves the reliability of our systems. You'll work with a diverse range of technologies as we release new applications and modernize existing tooling

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

• Solving complex problems in a timely and accurate manner through proactive troubleshooting, automation and systems programming
• Deploying and maintaining our observability platform and internal tooling
• Partnering across teams to ensure the reliability, scalability and usability of our products and services
• Providing guidance to engineers and developers to increase confidence that their services are performing as expected
• Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering
• Have 6 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a related engineering role, with Linux system administration expertise.
• Have an understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing/switching, and storage concepts.
• Have hands-on experience with containerized environments and Kubernetes, including operating and troubleshooting production systems.
• Have knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices, with hands-on experience using tools such as Jenkins, Git, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Have experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, or similar tools; exposure to cloud storage systems

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's 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 world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

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