Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Compute Platform Services Team)
Akamai · Posted Oct 14
Cloud computing, cybersecurity, and content delivery network services
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About the role
The Site Reliability team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure supporting Akamai's Compute products and services. The platform spans Cloud to Edge, covering cloud and edge computing, security, content delivery, and AI workloads. This role focuses on advancing automation, ensuring operational excellence, and supporting customer-facing applications and infrastructure through Linux systems administration, configuration management, and performance optimization.
What you will do
- Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams, investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.
- Developing processes, plans, and infrastructure to deploy new software components and updates safely and efficiently at scale.
- Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.
- 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 7+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
- Possess expert level experience in a Systems engineering or DevOps or Software engineering role, working with large scale distributed systems.
- Can troubleshoot any kind of systemic issues and develop large scale automations.
- Demonstrate proficiency in Python or Golang and hands-on experience with SaltStack, Ansible, and Terraform for infrastructure automation.
- Demonstrate expertise with observability or monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, and Splunk.
- Gain experience with any cloud platform, such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or an equivalent alternative.
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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