Associate Software Engineer- Site Reliability
Department: Digital
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: India Remote
Description
Why Join Axelerant as a Junior Site Reliability Engineer?Axelerant is the place to grow your career in Site Reliability Engineering. We welcome individuals with a solid understanding of tech fundamentals who are eager to build expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and DevOps practices.
In this role, you’ll be mentored by senior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand how modern infrastructure is built, monitored, and scaled. You'll gain hands-on exposure to industry-standard tools and be empowered to automate, problem-solve, and learn continuously in a supportive and innovative environment.
Key Responsibilities
As a junior team member, your focus will be on learning, contributing to operations, and gradually building independent capabilities:- Assist in building and maintaining infrastructure using modern tools and methodologies under the guidance of senior engineers.
- Participate in setting up monitoring, logging, and alerting to help ensure system visibility and proactive issue detection.
- Learn and apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or Ansible with support.
- Automate routine tasks with scripting (e.g., Python, Bash) to enhance efficiency.
- Contribute to incident response playbooks and system documentation to aid operational continuity.
- Support cloud-based deployments on platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure through guided hands-on experience.
- Join on-call rotations as part of a learning progression, always with mentorship.
- Engage in team learning sessions and retrospectives to continuously develop your understanding of scalable and reliable systems.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
We don’t expect you to have everything—but a curiosity to learn and a foundational understanding are essential.Must-Have Fundamentals
- Understanding of Linux-based operating systems.
- Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or Go).
- Knowledge of basic networking and distributed systems concepts.
- Awareness of DevOps culture, version control (Git), and CI/CD principles.
- Eagerness to work with containers (Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes).
- Problem-solving mindset and openness to feedback.
- Clear and collaborative communication skills.
- Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible.
- Experience with any monitoring tool (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
- Basic knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Interest in GitOps practices using tools like ArgoCD or Flux.
- Familiarity with CI/CD platforms like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.
- You steadily grow in confidence and technical scope over your first year.
- You proactively ask questions and complete learning milestones.
- You contribute to team initiatives, no matter how small, with quality and care.
- You begin to own components of our infrastructure workflows under supervision.
- You participate in postmortems, retrospectives, and playbooks—learning how systems break and how we fix them.
Why Work At Axelerant?
We're a people-centric company, driven by our core values: Openness, Enthusiasm, and Kindness.We highly value our people and invest in their growth and well-being through progressive benefits, which puts us among India's top 40 companies in health and wellbeing.
- Excellent work exposure - Some of our recent clients were the UN, the University of East London, and Doctors Without Borders.
- Meaningful projects to contribute back - Most of our projects are in the education, government, healthcare, and not-for-profit sectors. We also encourage and support team members for open-source contributions.
- Work-life flexibility and remote work - You decide when and where to work. This has allowed many team members, who couldn’t have held a regular job otherwise, to have thriving careers.
- Eight-hour workdays - We don't say 8 hours and expect 12 hours minimum.
- No micromanagement - Micromanagement makes us grunt like the Hulk. So nobody would be looking over your shoulders. But help is always available when asked.
- No discrimination - We believe in equal pay for equal work. Personal decisions like planning to have children will not stop you from getting promoted.
- Championing inclusivity - We like diversity. It enriches our lives and products. If you see something wrong or that could be better on day 1, share through established channels to bring positive change. We listen.
- Meaningful time off - 52 weekends and 40 days per year of consolidated leave, plus maternity, paternity, adoption, and sabbatical allowances. We also have Kindness leaves for emergencies.
- Family Medical Insurance - You want your family’s health secured. So do we. We got you, your spouse, and your little ones covered. And free doctor and health and wellness consultations from medical experts, whenever you need.
- Performance coaching - Our professional, empathetic coaches will help you become your best version through career and personal development.
- Event sponsorship - If your session at any event is selected and aligns with sponsorship guidelines, we cover all expenses for the trip, whether domestic or international.
- Continuing education allowance - We’ll cover up to 2% of your annual salary yearly for classes, certifications, or buying books to further your capabilities.
There Are Many Other Progressive Benefits:
- Health and wellness allowance
- Generous home office set-up allowance
- Sponsored team meet-ups
- Co-working space allowance
- Event allowance