Do you like collaborating across teams to solve complex problems?
Do you enjoy solving large scale distributed content delivery challenges?
Join our Mapping SRE Team!
Our team is responsible for overseeing Akamai's mapping system and working cross-functionally to improve its availability, reliability, performance, observability, and change management procedures. Our team defines key performance indicators (KPIs), advances the state of measurements, monitoring dashboards, alerts and operational responses, and investigates complex production issues.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand and improve the performance, availability and reliability of Akamai's Mapping service. You'll define key performance indicators (KPIs), advance the state of monitoring, alerting and operational responses, and investigate complex performance issues.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Defining, manage, and track Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for product performance and availability.
- Designing and implementing automation frameworks to reduce sources of operational toil improving system efficiency and eliminating manual and repetitive tasks.
- Collaborating with product engineering teams to promote and implement system designs that prioritize scalability, supportability, resilience, and reliability.
- Implementing and optimize monitoring, alerting, and logging tools to mitigate issues proactively and recommend improvements.
- Partnering with internal teams to diagnose and resolve critical incidents, ensuring prompt and effective resolution and system reliability.
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Have proven and extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a related role.
- Have experience in one or more programming or scripting languages such as Python, Go, Bash, or similar
- Exhibit proficiency in SQL and analyzing data for trends to support decision-making, troubleshooting and system optimization.
- Have experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging platforms such as Grafana and Prometheus.
- Have In-depth understanding of computer networking concepts, Unix/Linux internals, distributed systems, and systems design.
- Have excellent communication and organizational skills, be able to articulate technical information in an easy to understand manner.
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
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.
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!
