Site Reliability Engineer Senior - Remote

Does shaping the next generation managed Kubernetes cloud market excite you?

Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies and tackling distributed system problems?

Join our highly skilled Cloud Native SRE 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 all of this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Partner with the best

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you drive best practices in reliability, observability, automation ensuring top-tier performance and uptime. You'll create tools to automate the deployment, monitoring and management of the platform. You'll work with open-source technologies like Salt stack, Jenkins and Ansible. As well as Akamai developed tools to maintain the reliability of the computing infrastructure.

As a Site Reliability Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for:

• Deploying and maintaining our observability platform and internal tooling.
• Partnering across teams to ensure the reliability, scalability and usability of our products and services
• Providing guidance to engineers and developers to increase confidence that their services are performing as expected
• Mentoring junior team members and helping to set team direction and priorities
• Enhancing system monitoring and analysis for faster error detection and automated remediation.
• 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 4+ years of experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or its equivalent experience
• Have professional experience in a Site Reliability, Development, or SysAdmin role, including work with large-scale distributed systems
• Experience developing applications and scripts using languages such as Python, Bash, Go, Rust, or similar
• Have familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Have proficiency with a configuration management tool such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, Puppet, or similar
• Have experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins, Git hub Actions, or similar
• Experience with observability tools like Prometheus, Nagios, Grafana, ELK, or similar.

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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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.

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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!