Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Akamai · Posted Oct 7
Cloud computing, cybersecurity, and content delivery network services
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About the role
The Akamai Cloud Technology Engineering team owns, develops and manages the solutions used by engineers globally, helping to run one of the largest distributed systems in the world, with a focus on scalable, highly reliable and secure cloud and edge platforms. This Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Linux) role works on improving automation and efficiency for internal teams while ensuring operational excellence. Responsibilities include designing and maintaining infrastructure, tools and processes, optimizing deployments, and improving monitoring to enhance system reliability, scalability and performance.
What you will do
- Developing processes, plans, and infrastructure to deploy new software components and updates safely and efficiently at scale
- Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability
- Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Have 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or related field
- Specialize in Linux administration, demonstrating expertise in Python and Bash scripting languages for advanced systems management and automation tasks.
- Utilize Salt Stack, Ansible, Terraform for infrastructure automation, alongside CI/CD tools including Jenkins for streamlined deployment and management.
- Demonstrate expertise with observability or monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Open Search, Datadog, and Splunk, Docker
- Have hand-on mastery with Kubernetes experience with any cloud platform, such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or an equivalent alternative
Benefits and support
- FlexBase program offering flexible work arrangements (at home, in an office, or a combination of both)
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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