Senior II Site Reliability Engineer Lead
Akamai · Posted Nov 3
Cloud computing, cybersecurity, and content delivery network services
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About the role
Akamai's Site Reliability team designs, develops, and manages the applications and infrastructure supporting Akamai's Compute products and services, including the Compute Portals and APIs. The role focuses on cloud platform reliability, automation, and observability, ensuring uptime of critical Compute services and infrastructure. As a Senior II SRE Lead, you will provide technical leadership and mentorship, drive automation to reduce toil, manage identity and access management platforms, and lead incident resolution in on-call rotations.
What you will do
- Providing technical leadership, mentorship, and support to SRE and project teams, fostering collaboration and motivation
- Defining requirements during the product lifecycle to influence design, standards, and operational readiness.
- Partnering with engineering, operations, and support teams to ensure availability, reliability, scalability, and usability of platforms.
- Developing and enhancing automation tools to streamline daily operations, reduce manual effort (toil), and improve performance.
- Troubleshooting and resolve complex system issues through proactive investigation, automation, and systems programming
- Managing and improving Compute identity & access management platforms to accelerate issue detection and remediation.
- Participating in on-call rotations, leading incident resolution, and contributing to robust, stable code delivery alongside other teams.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent, with relevant hands-on experience in infrastructure and software architecture at scale.
- Be experienced in infrastructure automation tools like SaltStack, Terraform, and Ansible, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or CloudBees.
- Have expertise in Linux administration, Docker-based environments, and Kubernetes; skilled in optimizing performance using tools like Redis.
- Be familiar with observability tools, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Sentry, NewRelic, and web proxies such as Nginx/Envoy/HAProxy
- Have understanding of SLOs and system reliability principles.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Akamai
Akamai is a global cloud computing, cybersecurity, and content delivery network company that powers and protects digital experiences online. Its distributed edge platform optimizes web and application performance while providing robust enterprise security solutions. The company serves major global enterprises across various industries, enabling scalable cloud infrastructure and advanced threat mitigation.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 11000+ employees
- Founded
- 1998
- Location
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $61.5M raised
- 2023-08-16Post Ipo Debt
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
EVP & Chief Financial Officer
EVP & Chief Technology Officer
Chief Operating Officer & GM, Cloud Technology Group
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