Release Engineer II

Are you excited about working on cutting-edge technologies?

Are you a fast learner, fascinated to drive agile teams, connect, and deliver products?

Join our Edge Servers Engineering team

We are a team shaping Akamai's vision for exceptional digital experiences. Responsibilities include designing interfaces, applications, APIs, and services. Efforts focus on enabling customers and stakeholders to develop software using top internal and external technologies.

Partner with the best

As a Release Engineer II, develop tools, enhance automation, and establish procedures for safe release cycles. Facilitate interactions and build technical capabilities to ensure adherence to release schedules.

As a Release Engineer II, you will be responsible for:

• Defining and refining release and deployment processes
• Designing , implementing and supporting tools and pipelines with an automation first mindset
• Managing and facilitating engineering plans, workflows, and releases while presenting operational metrics on productivity and agility.
• Collaborating with teams to foster agile culture and coordinating cross-functional release deployment schedules.
• Collaborating across teams to implement CI/CD systems, support deployments, and streamline software releases.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Possess 2 to 4 of relevant experience and equivalent qualifications in Engineering or Management Information Systems.
• Demonstrate expertise in Build systems & Release train management - Planning, Communication and coordination
• Gain experience with CI/CD, Docker, Git, Perforce, Groovy scripting, and Ansible systems.
• Facilitate effectively, communicate clearly, and coordinate activities across multiple teams with precision.
• Demonstrate expertise in Linux/Unix, scripting languages like Python or shell; automate SDLC processes effectively.

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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We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

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