Rajath Jaiprakash

Site Reliability Engineer 2

Akamai Technologies•  October 2024 - Present

Architected end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for our Access Border Routers by integrating it with our AAA Simulators and custom deployment scripts in collaboration with our QA team, making the process 4x faster and reduced our downtime to just 30 seconds. Engineered fault-tolerant system by developing Python based auto-remediation scripts for 8 critical services, significantly reduced manual recovery procedures and improved service availability. Identified, Troubleshot and Solved a Business critical logging incident which impacted our 6WIND VSRs, across 18 Distributed Edge sites.

Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai Technologies•  July 2022 - October 2024

Improved our deployment workflow by crafting 20+ Ansible roles for automated configuration management, reducing deployment errors and cutting rollout time from days to hours across 4 environments. Executed the complex migration of 18 production logging servers by designing comprehensive transition plan and implementing parallel cutover strategy, maintaining near 100% service availability and processing over 250K+ daily transactions without interruption. Revamped our logging infrastructure by optimizing, migrating and upgrading our ELK Clusters to efficiently handle 150 GB of daily logs each, resulting in a 300% increase in log search performance and enabling real-time anomaly detection for 20+ critical services. Spearheaded DevOps knowledge sharing initiative by conducting 6 technical workshops for 30+ engineers over 3 different time-zones, resulting in 40% fewer deployment-related incidents across development teams. Enhanced monitoring for 200+ nodes by implementing hierarchical alerting structure in NagiosXI using InfluxDB and OpenSNMP Collector, reducing false positives and redundant alerts by 70%.