Site Reliability Engineer II
Akamai · Posted Oct 1
Cloud computing, cybersecurity, and content delivery network services
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About the role
At SIA Enterprise, protective measures are developed utilizing Akamai's real-time cloud security intelligence to enhance digital safety effectively. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will ensure Akamai's security products operate efficiently by maintaining system reliability and enhancing monitoring, alerting, and log aggregation. The role develops advanced tooling leveraging Kubernetes, Kafka, and ClickHouse, and collaborates with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and Linode to drive continuous improvement and performance optimization.
What you will do
- 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
- Improving monitoring and analysis platforms to ensure rapid error detection and remediation, including developing automated remediation
- Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Have 2+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- Demonstrate a proven ability to design and implement a comprehensive monitoring and observability strategy for complex software products
- Utilize ArgoCD to implement GitOps-based deployments while overseeing Kubernetes application delivery workflows effectively and efficiently.
- Create and manage CI/CD workflows leveraging GitHub Actions to automate processes, including building, testing, and deploying pipelines effectively.
- Have prior experience in defining and implementing frameworks and tools
- Demonstrate expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and Third Party clouds such as AWS, Azure, or Linode.
- Have experience working on Linux-based infrastructure, Bash/Python
- Demonstrate expertise in problem-solving and troubleshooting across network, system, application, and database layers, including network protocols, Linux OS, and SQL/KQL.
Benefits and support
- FlexBase program: work from 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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