Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Do you like collaborating across teams to solve complex problems

Do you enjoy solving large scale distributed systems problems

Join the Mapping SRE team

The Mapping SRE team manages availability, reliability, performance, and change processes for Akamai's mapping system. This system routes trillions of daily client requests, controlling global traffic at tens of terabits per second. The team establishes KPIs, enhances measurements, develops monitoring tools, and resolves intricate production issues.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, collaborate with teams to enhance Akamai's Mapping Service performance and reliability. Define KPIs, improve monitoring, alerting, and operational responses, and analyze intricate performance issues.

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

- Monitoring, investigating, and analyzing performance and availability while designing, managing, and tracking product-related SLIs/SLOs.
- Solving problems and avoid recurrence by developing tools / prototypes to proactively monitor service performance and availability
- Working closely with product engineers to advocate reliable and scalable system design for supportability resilience and reliability
- Leveraging skills in data analysis, network diagnostics and debugging tools to characterize performance and recommend improvement
- Collaborating with internal teams to help trouble-shoot and resolve escalations and incidents for our customers

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

- 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
- Show experience in one of the scripting or procedural languages (Python, Perl, Shell, C/C++, Java, etc.)
- Demonstrate expertise in SQL, analyze data trends, and support decisions while resolving data integrity and optimization issues.
- Show fluency working in a UNIX/Linux computing environment
- Have experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging platforms such as Grafana.
- Have in-depth understanding of computer networking concepts, Unix/Linux internals, distribution systems, and system design.

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

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Working for you

Benefits

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.

About Us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you