Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Akamai · Posted Sep 30
Cloud computing, cybersecurity, and content delivery network services
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About the role
The Compute Site Reliability team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services, specializing in solutions that improve observability and enforce SLAs across internal teams. The role spans Akamai's global Cloud-to-Edge platform, covering content delivery, security, and cloud products. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will collaborate across operations and application development teams to build tooling and software that monitors and improves system reliability while modernizing existing tooling.
What you will do
- Solving complex problems in a timely and accurate manner through proactive troubleshooting, automation and systems programming
- Deploying and maintaining our observability platform and internal tooling
- Partnering across teams to ensure the reliability, scalability and usability of our products and services
- Providing guidance to engineers and developers to increase confidence that their services are performing as expected
- Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering
- Have 6 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a related engineering role, with Linux system administration expertise.
- Have an understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing/switching, and storage concepts.
- Have hands-on experience with containerized environments and Kubernetes, including operating and troubleshooting production systems.
- Have knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices, with hands-on experience using tools such as Jenkins, Git, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Have experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, or similar tools; exposure to cloud storage systems
- Have automation/scripting skills using Python, Bash, Go, Rust, or similar languages.
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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