Job Description
Are you a Site Reliability Engineer who loves solving complex problems
Do you have a passion for cutting-edge technologies and tackling system problems
Join our highly-skilled Site Reliability team!
Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We create solutions that manage our Compute platform, focusing on cloud interfaces - Compute Portals and APIs. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
Partner with the best
In this role, you'll ensure the operation and uptime of our Compute services and infrastructure. You'll supervise and maintain our critical infrastructure. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to create 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 Site Reliability Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for:
- Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
- Deploying and maintaining the platform and tools used internally & collaborating with the team to troubleshoot customer incidents & escalations
- Partnering with multiple teams to ensure the availability, reliability, scalability and usability of our products and services
- Improving our Compute Cloud Interface platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability
- Developing and improving automation to support daily activities and reduce toil
- Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
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 experience automating with programming languages such as Python and/or Golang as well as scripting languages i.e. bash
- Possess an understanding of best practices related to systems reliability, observability and monitoring incl. adherence to SLOs.
- Have experience with configuration management tools such as SaltStack, Terraform and Ansible, as well as CI/CD solutions such as Jenkins
- Have hands-on mastery in Linux administration and container-based platforms like Docker
- Have hands-on experience with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki, web proxies (i.e. nginx/envoy/haproxy) and performance optimisation solutions, such as Redis.
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
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!
