Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?
Would you like an opportunity to effect change at a leading technology organization?
Join our Site Reliability team
The Akamai Cloud Technology Engineering team owns, develops and manages the solutions used by our engineers globally. These solutions help to run one of the largest distributed systems in the world. We work closely with internal teams and stakeholders to create innovative, powerful, scalable, highly reliable and secure systems at scale.
Partner with the best
This Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Linux) role involves improving automation and efficiency for internal teams while ensuring operational excellence. Responsibilities include enhancing system reliability, scalability, and performance by designing and maintaining infrastructure, tools, and processes. Collaborate to address technical challenges, optimize deployments, and support applications. Drive continuous improvement through workflow automation, system monitoring, and performance optimization to achieve organizational objectives.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Developing processes, plans, and infrastructure to deploy new software components and updates safely and efficiently at scale
- Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability
- Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or related field
- Specialize in Linux administration, demonstrating expertise in Python and Bash scripting languages for advanced systems management and automation tasks.
- Utilize Salt Stack, Ansible, Terraform for infrastructure automation, alongside CI/CD tools including Jenkins for streamlined deployment and management.
- Demonstrate expertise with observability or monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Open Search, Datadog, and Splunk, Docker
- Have hand-on mastery with Kubernetes experience with any cloud platform, such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or an equivalent alternative
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
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