Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Would you enjoy improving stability and safety of one of the largest global networks?

Would you enjoy hands-on network operations work on a global scale to improve our operational efficiency?

Join the Platform Cloud Services Engineering Team

The Platform Cloud Services SRE team supports globally distributed hosting and database systems for Akamai. These systems prioritize availability and performance, presenting unique operational complexities due to their global scale. This role offers the chance to develop software powering one of the largest distributed platforms worldwide.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, collaborate with teams to enhance and measure system reliability. Utilize programming, distributed systems, troubleshooting, and analytical expertise to optimize system reliability and capacity.

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

• Partnering across teams to ensure the reliability, scalability and usability of our products and services
• Designing the architecture and implementation of complex cloud-based systems
• Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence new designs and standards
• Developing new tools and automation pipelines to support development, testing, and deployment workflows
• Collaborating with support, operations, and engineering teams to resolve application issues and network-related problems.
• Maintaining and exceeding high SLA targets, ensuring robust system uptime and performance

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 expertise with programming and scripting languages, ideally Python and Bash.
• Demonstrate hands-on experience with technologies such as RKE2, ArgoCD, Docker, Apache Cassandra, PostgreSQL.
• Have in-depth understanding of computer networking concepts, Security concepts, Unix/Linux internals, distributed systems, and systems design.
• Have professional experience in a Site Reliability, Development, or Systems Engineering role, with large scale distributed systems
• Utilize automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Salt Stack; understand monitoring tools Prometheus, Grafana, Loki.

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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At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

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.

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