Akamai Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - 

United States 

470248314

Partner with the best

In this role, you'll be responsible for ensuring smooth operation and up-time of our Compute services and infrastructure. You'll supervise and maintain our critical infrastructure and collaborate with our operations and development teams to creating tooling and software that monitors and improves the reliability of our systems. You'll work with various technologies as we release brand new applications and modernize our existing tooling.

As a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Providing support and mentorship for other SRE engineers within the team
• Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
• Deploying and maintaining the platform and tools used internally
• Partnering with multiple teams to ensure the availability, reliability, scalability and usability of our products and services
• Solving complex problems in a timely and accurate manner through proactive troubleshooting, automation and systems programming
• Improving our Compute IAM platform to speed error detection & remediation, enhancing performance and reliability

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
• Have professional experience in a Site Reliability, Development, or Systems Engineering role, with large scale distributed systems
• Have extensive experience with more than one programing language such as Python, Golang, and Bash
• Have extensive experience with configuration management at scale using Saltstack, Ansible, or Terraform
• Have hands on experience with monitoring and logging tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki or similar
• Possess an understanding of best practices related to systems reliability, observability and monitoring incl. adherence to SLOs.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.