Akamai Principal Site Reliability Engineer - 

United States 

676711366

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

• Working on a range of technologies to improve performance, availability and scalability
• Identifying potential problems to and creating scalable solutions to ensure continuous improvements to quality of service
• Working with Engineering teams to specify feature sets aimed at improving performance, facilitating measurement, monitoring, and benchmarking
• Using data analysis, network diagnostics and debugging tools to continuously monitor our network and content delivery environment

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
• Demonstrate experience with internet protocols, (DNS, HTTP, TCP, TLS) and scripting languages,(Python, Perl, shell).
• Have experience working with and analyzing complex systems in UNIX/Linux distributed production environments
• Have familiarity with streaming technologies such as Encoding, Video Players, Media Security, Streaming Protocols, and Media Workflows
• Demonstrate analytical and quantitative capabilities with an ability to provide data-backed analysis
• Have excellent communication skills, able to articulate technical information in a clear and easy to understand manner
• Be a self starter, proactively taking the initiative to solving problems and a drive to improve results

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.