Job Description

Are you passionate about working on emerging cloud technologies?

Does building next generation cloud computing technology excites you?

Join our SRE team!

Our team works on building and maintaining the infrastructure for Akamai Linode Compute. We prioritize reliability work using service level objectives to provide reliable and secure services to our customers.

Partner with the best

You will work to ensure uninterrupted operations from end-to-end of a software's life cycle. Besides automating and ensuring system stability, you will monitor and successfully deploy releases. You will work with cross-functional teams to understand and benchmark the performance of our key products and services and influence their evolution.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Developing and maintaining the system and its services, automating the deployment process, ensuring system scaling.
• Investigating and resolving outages, identifying and implementing preventive measures proactively, and collaborating with key stakeholders.
• Performing proactive measures such as capacity planning, performance tuning, and implementing infrastructure as code.
• Working with development teams to ensure that new features and services are designed and deployed in a way that meets the reliability and performance goals.
• Building software tools and systems to automate analytical tasks and workflows to increase efficiency and reliability.
• Helping to identify areas for new technology investments.
  
  

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have over 5 years of academic or industrial experience and a bachelor's degree in computer science
• Possess experience with Internet protocols (DNS/HTTP/TLS/TCP)
• Demonstrate experience with coding in one or more of the following languages (python, perl, golang, Java, SQL)
• Have experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and Salt.
• Demonstrate experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes (K8s) & Docker
• Have experience troubleshooting Unix & Linux issues
• Demonstrate experience with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana & have some familiarity with web applications
  
  

Build your career at Akamai

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.

With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

Learn more

Not sure if this job is the right match for you or want to learn more about the job before you apply? Schedule a 15-minute exploratory call with the Recruiter and they would be happy to share more details.