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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai · Posted Nov 5

Cloud computing, cybersecurity, and content delivery network services

Bengaluru, IndiaFull-timeRemote · India-wideSenior Level5+ years₹30.0L–₹45.0L yearly<25 applicants
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About the role

Akamai's Site Reliability team designs, develops, and manages the applications and infrastructure supporting Akamai's Compute products and services, focusing on cloud interfaces such as Compute Portals and APIs. The role centers on operating and maintaining the Compute platform and internal tooling, with automation, monitoring, and incident response work across Linux and container-based systems. As a Senior SRE, you will mentor other SREs, define requirements within the product lifecycle, improve error detection and remediation, and participate in on-call rotations.

What you will do

  • Providing support and mentorship for other SRE engineers within the team
  • Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
  • Deploying and maintaining the platform and tools used internally
  • Partnering with multiple teams to ensure the availability, reliability, scalability and usability of our products and services
  • Improving our Compute Cloud Interface platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability
  • Developing and improving automation to support daily activities and reduce toil
  • Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
  • Collaborating with internal teams to help troubleshoot and resolve escalations and incidents for our customers.

Skills used in this role

What the employer is looking for

  • Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
  • Have experience automating with programming languages such as Python and/or Golang as well as scripting languages i.e. bash
  • Possess an understanding of best practices related to systems reliability, observability and monitoring incl. adherence to SLOs.
  • Have experience with configuration management tools such as SaltStack, Terraform and Ansible, as well as CI/CD solutions such as Jenkins
  • Have hands-on mastery in Linux administration and container-based platforms like Docker
  • Utilize monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, web proxies (e.g., nginx/envoy/haproxy), and performance optimization solutions such as Redis effectively.

Benefits and support

  • FlexBase flexible work program (work from home, in an office, or a combination of both)

About Akamai

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Akamai is a global cloud computing, cybersecurity, and content delivery network company that powers and protects digital experiences online. Its distributed edge platform optimizes web and application performance while providing robust enterprise security solutions. The company serves major global enterprises across various industries, enabling scalable cloud infrastructure and advanced threat mitigation.

Industry
Cloud Computing
Company size
11000+ employees
Founded
1998
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Funding stage
Public Company

Funding

Public Company · $61.5M raised

Apple
  • 2023-08-16Post Ipo Debt

Leadership

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Tom Leighton

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

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Ed McGowan

EVP & Chief Financial Officer

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Robert Blumofe

EVP & Chief Technology Officer

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Adam Karon

Chief Operating Officer & GM, Cloud Technology Group

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