Site Reliability Engineer II
Akamai · Posted Oct 23
Cloud computing, cybersecurity, and content delivery network services
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About the role
Akamai's Core IP Networking team supports the company's global backbone and networking technologies by solving operational challenges through code. The SRE team works alongside Architecture, Engineering, and Ops to design and build solutions that reduce toil and improve monitoring and operation of the backbone. This Site Reliability Engineer II role focuses on automated operational workflows, network telemetry and observability, and cloud-native infrastructure.
What you will do
- Designing and building systems that support automated operational workflows and provide deep insights into our global network data
- Identifying and eliminate bottlenecks in operational workflows caused by process inefficiencies, manual toil, and technical debt
- Generating telemetry data and deep observability for network infrastructure
- Architecting our code to be self-sustainable, robust and easily maintainable, focusing on CI/CD, test-driven development, and iterative design
- Supporting and deploying cloud-native, third party software utilizing an infrastructure as code paradigm
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Have 2 and more years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field,
- Have programming experience with Python/JavaScript, ability to design and develop scalable full-stack systems using appropriate frameworks and SDLC best practices.
- Have experience with containers, Kubernetes, service orchestration, microservices, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and modern DevOps practices.
- Have experience with PostgreSQL, Apache Cassandra, network telemetry, monitoring/metrics, dashboarding, alerting, and developing automation to improve operational efficiency.
Benefits and support
- GROW program
- Mentoring program
- LinkedIn Learning
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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