Do you love leading and motivating successful teams?

Would you like an opportunity to effect change at a leading technology organization?

Join our Compute Team!

Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making computing simple, scalable, accessible, and affordable for all. We provide the infrastructure and services that enable developers to build next generation applications. We currently host hundreds of thousands of virtual machines and petabytes of data for our customers around the world.

Partner with the best

You'll organize the coordination of releases with software engineering, program management, and product management. Our team works primarily on applications powering our core compute platform. These applications are used by all our customers.

As a Release Engineer Senior Lead, you will be responsible for:

  • Managing the agile ceremonies, Jira boards, tickets in collaboration with the team
  • Coordinating of our intake, progress and releases with program management, stakeholders, and other product teams
  • Participating in technical design, product specifications reviews, projects and backlog planning, refinement.
  • Documenting tasks, gathering acceptance criteria, and ensuring the accurate planning of projects with the engineering management
  • Improving our planning, estimation, and change safety processes on an ongoing basis

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.

Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work

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.

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!

Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

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.

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Have relevant experience on a similar position
  • Have Excellent communication and documentation skills
  • Have experience with Jira, Agile methodologies, and classic Program management process
  • Understand virtualization, Linux and compute products
  • Have experience coding, testing, releasing software to production
  • Demonstrate good understanding of Architecture design
  • Demonstrate coordination effectively between different teams and products
Akamai Technologies

Akamai Technologies