Senior Site Reliability Engineer

🕒 July 16

🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Akamai Technologies

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2001-07

Cloud Computing • Cybersecurity • Content Delivery

Akamai Technologies is a leading cloud services provider that specializes in delivering security, cloud computing, and content delivery solutions. It offers a range of services such as API security, DDoS protection, and performance optimization for web applications, ensuring secure and reliable user experiences. With a robust global infrastructure, Akamai empowers businesses to streamline their digital presence while safeguarding against various cyber threats and enhancing application performance.

📋 Description

• Leading complex reliability and performance investigations across Akamai's global edge, media delivery, and web delivery platforms. • Troubleshooting critical distributed systems issues spanning application, platform, network, and operating system layers, serving as the highest technical escalation point. • Partnering with Engineering, Product, Support, and Network teams to identify root causes and deliver scalable, long-term solutions that improve platform reliability. • Designing and improving observability through SLIs, SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, and alerts to identify and address customer-impacting issues. • Analyzing platform performance, traffic patterns, and system bottlenecks to improve scalability, resilience, and overall service reliability. • Developing automation, internal tools, AI-assisted diagnostics, and self-service workflows to streamline operations, reduce manual effort, and accelerate incident response. • Enhancing operational excellence through reliability-centered architecture reviews, post-incident analysis, continuous improvements, and offering off-hours support during critical incidents as needed.

🎯 Requirements

• Possess Bachelors in CS/Engineering or a related field with 6 years of industry experience in large-scale SRE/Systems Infrastructure roles. • Have logical reasoning skills diagnosing complex performance bottlenecks, data integrity anomalies, and system failure modes in distributed environments. • Have understanding of internet technologies and foundational networking concepts, including caching, proxies, TLS, TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP/HTTPS architectures. • Have foundation in Linux/Unix administration, diagnostic tools, and low-level environment troubleshooting. • Be able to retrieve data, analyze telemetry streams, and troubleshoot platform data integrity issues through SQL queries. • Have experience developing automation tools using languages like Python, Bash, or Go. • Demonstrate expertise in AI models and focus on implementing agentic workflows to reduce operational inefficiencies effectively.

🏖️ Benefits

• We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. • FlexBase adapts to your job's needs • Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.