Do you like collaborating across teams to solve complex problems?

Do you enjoy solving large scale distributed content delivery challenges?

Join our Compute Site Reliability team!

Our team is responsible for monitoring and measuring the reliability of our suite of computing products and platforms. In collaboration with Engineering Product teams, we focus on improving the performance and reliability of products we support.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer II, you enhance Akamai's Compute products' performance, availability, and reliability. You define KPIs, improve monitoring and alerting, and investigate complex issues.

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

• Providing ongoing operational support for complex distributed applications.
• Solving complex problems in a timely, accurate manner and avoid recurrence through proactive troubleshooting, automation systems programming.
• Monitoring, investigating, and analyzing performance and availability by (co)designing, managing, and tracking product-related SLIs/SLOs
• Working closely with product engineers to advocate reliable and scalable system design for supportability, resilience and reliability
• Leveraging skills in data analysis, network diagnostics and debugging tools to characterize performance and recommend improvements

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Show experience in one of the scripting or procedural languages (Python, Perl, Shell, C/C++, Java, etc.)
• Show fluency working in a UNIX/Linux computing environment
• Have familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• 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
• Have excellent communication and organizational skills, be able to articulate technical information in an easy-to-understand manner

Build your career at Akamai

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.

With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

Learn more

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