Manager Site Reliability Engineering
Akamai Technologies is seeking a hands-on Site Reliability Engineering Manager for their APJ-based team to ensure the performance and reliability of cloud platform services. The role involves leading engineers in product operations, customer supportability, and managing on-call duties. Candidates must have 8 years of experience in distributed systems and infrastructure management using tools like Ansible or Puppet. This position focuses on driving product improvements through data-driven operational strategies.
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Experience
8+ years
Function
Engineering
Work mode
Hybrid, India
Company
Tier 2
What you will work on
Akamai Technologies is seeking a hands-on Site Reliability Engineering Manager for their APJ-based team to ensure the performance and reliability of cloud platform services. The role involves leading engineers in product operations, customer supportability, and managing on-call duties. Candidates must have 8 years of experience in distributed systems and infrastructure management using tools like Ansible or Puppet. This position focuses on driving product improvements through data-driven operational strategies.
TAL's take
Solid tier-2 company with a clear management scope in a specialized SRE function at a global scale.
The role is clearly defined with specific responsibilities, team context (APJ-based SRE), and required technical domains.
Salaries at Akamai Technologies
26.1 LPA average
Based on 55 Grapevine salary entries for Akamai Technologies.
Engineering
0 - 2 years | L1
10 LPA average
Range: 3 - 18 LPA
Engineering
2 - 4 years | L1
16 LPA average
Range: 14 - 18 LPA
Engineering
4 - 6 years | Se2
21 LPA average
Range: 3 - 32 LPA
Engineering
6 - 8 years | Mid
25 LPA average
Range: 20 - 31 LPA
Must haves
- 8 years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
- Track record of managing high-performance teams
- Experience in operations and troubleshooting of large distributed systems
- Experience with monitoring/logging/performance analytics tools
- Experience with SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
Tools and skills
About the company
Akamai is a well-established global technology company, though it is not traditionally classified in the same tier as core FAANG/OpenAI, it maintains a strong engineering reputation.
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