Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?
Do solving some of the Internet's most difficult content delivery challenges interest you?
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 specialize in creating solutions that help improve observability and enforce SLAs across all internal teams. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will specialize in creating solutions that help improve automation and efficiencies across all internal teams. You will be expected to drive automation, operational excellence, and support our customer facing applications and infrastructure. This will require creative thinking combined with deep domain expertise in the areas of Linux systems administration, configuration management, performance tuning, etc.
As a Site Reliability Engineer II, you will be responsible for:
- Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
- Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
- Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability
- Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent
- Possess high level experience in a SysAdmin (Linux/Unix Administration), DevOps or Software engineering role, working with large scale distributed systems, ability to understand complex infrastructure
- Be experienced with SaltStack or have at least basics and willingness to learn further (we will help)
- Be able to code and automate in at least one programming language (Python/Golang). Terraform experience will be great
- Experience with architecting software and infrastructure at scale
- Be able to work with minimal supervision
- Possess informed opinions on technology and software design to bring to the table
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.
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
Join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!
