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Position Summary: We are seeking an Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), who is a hands-on technical people leader to lead the Service Operations Site Reliability Engineering team in Chennai within the Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (CIE) division. This role is responsible for driving reliability, observability, automation, and operational readiness across systems supporting Service Operations. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Linux infrastructure, observability platforms, infrastructure automation, incident management, and engineering leadership. This individual will partner closely with global engineering and operations teams to reduce toil, improve service reliability, and deliver scalable, resilient solutions that support athenahealth's mission of providing
About the Team: The Service Operations Site Reliability Engineering team is part of the Network Operations Center (NOC) organization and sits within the Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (CIE) division. The team is responsible for delivering highly available SaaS infrastructure, operational tooling, observability solutions, and automation capabilities that support Service Operations and Cloud Infrastructure teams. Working closely with R&D and Infrastructure stakeholders across India and the United States, the team focuses on improving operational excellence through automation, standardized onboarding, actionable monitoring, and continuous reduction of operational toil.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of Site Reliability and Infrastructure Engineers based in India.
- Remain technically hands-on by reviewing designs, guiding implementation efforts, troubleshooting complex issues, and contributing to technical solutions when required.
- Own team delivery across infrastructure management, observability, service onboarding, alerting, automation, and operational readiness initiatives.
- Drive observability strategy across metrics, logs, traces, synthetic monitoring, health checks, dashboards, and actionable alerting frameworks.
- Manage provisioning and lifecycle management of physical and virtual Linux systems using tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, and related automation platforms.
- Partner with engineering teams operating within SaaS, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS environments to ensure complete monitoring and operational coverage.
- Identify, measure, and reduce operational toil through automation, self-service capabilities, documentation, and scalable operational processes.
- Lead Agile delivery practices including sprint planning, backlog prioritization, stakeholder communication, and continuous improvement activities.
Additional Job Responsibilities:
- Build and enhance monitoring integrations across platforms including New Relic, Prometheus, Alertmanager, OpenSearch, Grafana, Icinga, Unified Assurance, and related technologies.
- Establish Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Configuration-as-Code, Monitoring-as-Code, and Alerting-as-Code standards and practices.
- Improve alert quality by ensuring alerts contain actionable context, ownership, severity levels, routing information, and runbook references.
- Partner with NOC and Service Operations teams to standardize service onboarding, escalation management, operational handoffs, and response workflows.
- Manage hiring, onboarding, performance management, feedback, career development, and technical growth of direct reports.
- Participate in incident response activities, escalation reviews, post-incident analysis, and on-call planning processes.
- Develop and report operational metrics including alert quality, automation coverage, service health, onboarding throughput, toil reduction, and reliability improvements.
- Ensure operational excellence through comprehensive documentation, SOPs, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and support procedures while collaborating effectively with global teams.
Expected Education & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent experience will also be considered.
- 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Technical Operations.
- 2+ years of experience managing or formally leading technical engineering teams.
- Strong hands-on experience administering, provisioning, and operating Linux systems in large-scale production environments.
- Proven experience with observability platforms, monitoring, logging, tracing, dashboarding, alerting, and synthetic monitoring solutions.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or similar technologies, along with scripting in Python, Go, Bash, Ruby, Java, or related languages.
- Experience supporting SaaS, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes/EKS environments, CI/CD pipelines, incident management, operational readiness, and modern engineering practices, with strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
About athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What we can do for you:
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or equivalent experience
- 10+ years in Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability, Systems, Platform Engineering, or Technical Operations
- 2+ years managing or formally leading technical engineering teams
- Hands-on experience administering, provisioning, and operating Linux systems in large-scale production
- Proven experience with observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, dashboarding, alerting, and synthetic monitoring solutions
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools (Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, etc.)
- Scripting experience in Python, Go, Bash, Ruby, Java, or similar languages
- Experience supporting SaaS, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes/EKS environments, CI/CD pipelines, and incident management
- Experience building monitoring integrations or working with tools like New Relic, Prometheus, Alertmanager, OpenSearch, Grafana, Icinga
- Experience leading Agile delivery practices including sprint planning and backlog prioritization
athenahealth Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about athenahealth and has not been reviewed or approved by athenahealth.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision options alongside additional protections like accident and critical illness coverage. Mental health support and EAP-style counseling resources are also part of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-away offerings include PTO that covers vacation and sick time, paid holidays, and options for leaves of absence and sabbaticals. Flexible time off is positioned as a meaningful part of the overall rewards package for some roles.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) plan with employer matching, supported by broader financial wellbeing resources. Equity and performance bonuses are also referenced as part of total rewards.
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What We Do
athenahealth strives to cure complexity and simplify the practice of healthcare. Our innovative technology includes electronic health records, revenue cycle management, and patient engagement solutions that help healthcare providers, administrators, and practices eliminate friction for patients while getting paid efficiently. athenahealth partners with practices with purpose-built software backed by expertise to produce the insights needed to drive better clinical and financial outcomes. We’re inspired by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com
Why Work With Us
We are here to make an impact on the healthcare industry at scale. We enable our diverse teams to move fast, grapple with interesting technical challenges, and innovate at every level. We are on a modernization journey and build on the hybrid cloud. We deliver best-in-class solutions to help every patient receive the best possible care.
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