Senior Site Reliability Engineer Compute Platform Services Team

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

Job summary

A leading technology organization Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Linux) to strengthen automation, reliability, and scale of compute services.

You will collaborate across support, operations, and engineering to troubleshoot complex issues and deploy large-scale updates safely. You'll bring 7+ years of experience in Linux, DevOps, and distributed systems, with Python or Go, and hands-on with SaltStack, Ansible, Terraform, and observability tools like

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience in Linux, DevOps or SRE roles.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with support, operations and engineering to troubleshoot complex problems.
• Develop processes and infrastructure to deploy software components safely and at scale.
• Participate in on-call rotations and guide restoration of service-impacting issues.
• Improve monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation.

Skills

Linux systems administration

Automation/DevOps

Python

Go (Golang)

SaltStack

Ansible

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/OpenSearch

Datadog

Splunk

AWS

GCP

Azure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

SaltStack

Ansible

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/OpenSearch

Datadog

Splunk

AWS

GCP

Azure

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 highly skilled Site Reliability team.

The team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure supporting Akamais Compute products and services to enhance global daily experiences.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Linux), this role focuses on developing solutions to enhance automation and efficiency for internal teams. Responsibilities include advancing automation, ensuring operational excellence, and supporting customer-facing applications and infrastructure. Success requires innovative thinking and expertise in Linux systems administration, configuration management, performance optimization, and hardware engineering.

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

• Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams, investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.
• Developing processes, plans, and infrastructure to deploy new software components and updates safely and efficiently at scale.
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.
• 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 7+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
• Possess expert level experience in a Systems engineering or DevOps or Software engineering role, working with large scale distributed systems.
• Can troubleshoot any kind of systemic issues and develop large scale automations.
• Demonstrate proficiency in Python or Golang and hands-on experience with SaltStack, Ansible, and Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Demonstrate expertise with observability or monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, and Splunk.
• Gain 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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