Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Join Akamai's Remote Team

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 do this while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do.

Make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Partner with the best The Senior Engineer creates solutions to improve automation and efficiency for systems and teams.

Expertise in Linux administration, configuration management, and performance tuning is essential.

Collaborate on deployment, monitoring, and resolving incidents.

Focus on reliability, scalability, and efficiency through automation and resource optimization.

Promote continuous improvement and operational excellence across all systems.

Providing support and mentorship for other engineers within the department Developing and maintaining automated tools and scripts to enhance system reliability, deployment processes, and incident response efficiency.

Improving our system monitoring to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability of virtualization platform Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues Writing automation and tooling to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and accelerate incident response Contributing to capacity planning, autoscaling configuration, and workload scheduling for AI compute infrastructure Do what you love To be successful in this role you will:

Possess expert level experience in a SysAdmin (Linux/Unix Administration), DevOps or SRE role, working with large scale distributed systems Demonstrate expertise in Kubernetes and large-scale containerization systems.

Possess at least one programming language (Python/Golang) and configuration management with Terraform/SaltStack/Ansible Define SLOs and work with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing to enhance system monitoring.

Have experience with architecting software and infrastructure at scale Demonstrate accountability for reliability, develop automation and monitoring, and collaborate effectively with an engineering team unfamiliar with SRE practices.

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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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.

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.

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.

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! #LI-Remote