Senior Manager, Site Reliability

This role will be based in Bangalore India.

At LinkedIn our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture connection clarity and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days as determined by the business needs of the team.

At LinkedIn the Productivity Engineering Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team plays a critical role in ensuring our enterprise business applications are reliable scalable secure and highly automated.

We are seeking a Senior Manager Site Reliability Engineering to lead a high-performing team of SREs software engineers enterprise engineers and test automation engineers responsible for system health observability and operational excellence across both development and production environments.

In this role you will partner closely with Development and Test Automation teams from early design through production driving improvements in reliability performance and scalability across complex application ecosystems. You will also collaborate with cross-functional infrastructure teams to scale and modernize financial systems infrastructure.

You will lead strategic initiatives across application database and middleware platforms including performance optimization and the transformation of systems from on-premises environments to modern multi-cloud architectures.

This is a key leadership opportunity for someone passionate about building high-performing teams driving automation at scale and delivering resilient efficient platforms that power mission-critical business operations.

Responsibilities:

• Build lead and scale a high-performing SRE organization including hiring mentoring and organizational development

• Act as a role model and coach with a strong bias for action engineering craftsmanship and operational excellence

• Participate with senior leadership to define and drive the long-term technology vision strategy and roadmap aligned with business priorities

• Establish and foster a culture of ownership accountability continuous improvement and high operational standards

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners across development infrastructure testing and business teams to drive impactful roadmaps

• Influence and align senior stakeholders across engineering infrastructure and business domains

• Own availability reliability performance and scalability of enterprise business applications and financial systems

• Define and implement SRE best practices including SLOs SLAs error budgets incident management and operational frameworks

• Lead end-to-end incident response root cause analysis and long-term remediation strategies to improve system resilience

• Drive operational maturity through metrics observability automation and continuous improvement initiatives

• Oversee application database and middleware platform performance reliability and capacity planning

• Lead modernization efforts including migration from legacy environments to modern infrastructure.

• Evaluate and implement new technologies and architectural patterns to improve scalability resilience and efficiency

• Define and drive observability strategy across monitoring logging tracing and alerting systems

• Champion an automation-first mindset to eliminate manual processes and improve operational efficiency

• Drive development of internal tools and self-service platforms to enhance engineering productivity and reduce operational overhead

• Improve deployment release and operational workflows through engineering-led automation and standardization

• Own infrastructure cost management capacity planning and financial forecasting for Financial Systems

• Optimize infrastructure and licensing investments (e.g. Oracle ecosystem) aligned with business and financial goals

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience

• 12 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering Production Engineering or related disciplines

• 4 years of experience leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams

• Experience in Oracle ERP (EBS/Fusion) and Oracle Database technologies

• Hands-on experience with Oracle 19c database administration including high availability and disaster recovery (Oracle RAC Grid Infrastructure Data Guard)

• Experience operating in SOX-compliant environments with focus on controls audit and governance

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4 years of hands-on experience troubleshooting complex issues across Unix/Linux networking and Windows environments

• Proven experience working within an SRE organization managing and operating large-scale production systems and applications

• Strong understanding and practical application of SRE principles including designing systems aligned with SLA/SLO/SLI objectives and building resilient highly available platforms

• 2 years of programming experience in Python Shell scripting or similar languages for automation and tooling

• Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible and Chef

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and cloud orchestration tools such as Terraform

• Familiarity with observability and telemetry platforms such as Oracle Enterprise Manager Azure Log Analytics or similar

• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and IIS is a plus

• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals including data structures relational and non-relational databases networking Linux internals filesystems storage systems and web architectures

• Experience working with a broad range of open-source technologies and cloud services

• Solid understanding of Agile development methodologies and modern software development practices

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across diverse cross-functional teams

Suggested Skills:

• Technical Leadership

• People Management

• Stakeholder Management

Additional Information :

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Department / Functional Area: Engineering
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1