Manager – Site Reliability Engineering

Akamai Technologies

Site Reliability Engineering Manager leading APJ-based team focusing on cloud platform performance at Akamai. Collaborating across teams to solve complex challenges in distributed systems.

Posted 5/18/2026full-timeRemote • 🇮🇳 IndiaSeniorLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleChefDistributed SystemsPuppetReactSaltStack

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Leading a team of site reliability engineers in developing and executing product operation and customer supportability plans
Aggregating the customer signal to drive product improvements
Managing on-call duty for the APJ based team as part of the global REAct team
Shaping cross-team communication and collaboration to improve product operation and customer supportability
Identifying opportunities to automate operational processes and reduce toil

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline, or its equivalent
Demonstrate a good track record of managing high-performance teams, delivering solutions, resolving issues, and developing engineers
Have experience in operations, analysis, and troubleshooting of large distributed systems, and with corresponding monitoring/logging/performance analytics tools
Have experience with tools like SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet for managing infrastructure at scale
Be familiar with software development practices and product life cycles from concept to deployment and operations.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

site reliability engineeringoperations managementtroubleshootinglarge distributed systemsmonitoring toolslogging toolsperformance analyticsautomationinfrastructure managementsoftware development practices

Soft Skills

team leadershipcross-team communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingcustomer supportabilityperformance managementissue resolutionengineer development