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Engineering Manager - SRE
@athena India
[Hiring] Engineering Manager - SRE @athena India
Mar 16, 2025 - athena India is hiring a remote Engineering Manager - SRE. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: India.
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Role Description
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager to lead our Cloud Infrastructure Engineering team in Chennai R&D. This team ensures the continuous availability of the technologies and systems that power athenahealth’s services.
- Manage thousands of servers, petabytes of storage, and process thousands of web requests per second.
- Create a seamless operating system for the medical office—abstracting administrative complexities so doctors can focus on patient care.
Key Responsibilities
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Team Leadership & Development:
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of SREs, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.
- Build a high-performing team focused on operational excellence, reliability, and scalability.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and Project Management teams to align priorities and drive cross-functional collaboration.
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Service Reliability & Performance:
- Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for critical systems.
- Monitor and enhance the reliability, availability, and performance of all production services and infrastructure.
- Drive improvements in incident management, root cause analysis, and postmortem processes.
- Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and incident response strategies.
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System Automation & Scalability:
- Lead automation efforts to eliminate manual tasks, improve system reliability, and streamline operations.
- Implement best practices for system design, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
- Work closely with engineering teams to build scalable, resilient, and efficient systems.
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Collaboration & Cross-functional Engagement:
- Advocate for reliability best practices across engineering and product teams.
- Ensure reliability is embedded in the development lifecycle by reviewing code, design, and deployment strategies.
- Align with other engineering managers on long-term goals, technical debt, and infrastructure investments.
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Process & Efficiency Improvement:
- Continuously improve incident management, deployment pipelines, and system observability.
- Champion automation, monitoring, alerting, and reporting tools.
- Use data-driven insights to measure and optimize operational performance.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in building, scaling, and supporting highly available systems and services.
- 2-3 years of experience in managing and mentoring technical teams, with expertise in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes - On-prem & Cloud).
- Strong background in Platform Engineering, TechOps, FinOps, and DevSecOps in a hybrid cloud environment.
- Expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Crossplane, Puppet, Ansible) and API integration.
- Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Go, Ruby, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with Linux systems, VMware, cloud platforms (AWS), and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Splunk).
- Strong understanding of site reliability principles, telemetry, and monitoring best practices.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
- Familiarity with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
- Solid grasp of security best practices and compliance standards.
Benefits
- Health and financial benefits.
- Perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces.
- Events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons.
- Company culture based on learning, support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment.
- Flexibility to encourage a better work-life balance.
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Mar 16, 2025
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