Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

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

Join our critical SRE team

Our team designs and manages applications and infrastructure for Akamai's Compute, CDN, and security services. We enhance observability, enforce SLAs, and uphold Akamai's mission to improve billions of lives daily.

Collaborate with others to build the best solutions for customers

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll analyze systems, troubleshoot issues, optimize platform performance, and drive improvements with engineering and SRE teams. You'll shape our products, services, and network deployment.

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

• Identifying inefficiencies, implementing fixes, and building robust solutions using code and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Designing and working with Engineering or the SRE team to build automation or provide self-service tools
• Providing support, leadership and motivation for project teams
• Using data analysis and diagnostic tools to evaluate performance and capacity in large-scale distributed systems.
• Designing, managing and tracking of Akamai's platform related KPIs to identify trends and changes to improve performance.
• Investigating proactively and analyzing platform performance to identify opportunities to maintain and enhance our advantage.
• Collaborating with internal teams to help trouble-shoot and resolve escalations and incidents for our customers.
• Working with cross-functional teams to gather customer requirements and influence how the business deploys and operates capacity.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have relevant experience and a Bachelors in Computer Science or another quantitative discipline.
• Demonstrate experience in developing solutions Python, bash, or other languages.
• Demonstrate experience in internet protocols such as DNS, HTTP, TCP.
• Have experience working with and analyzing complex systems in Linux, VM, and Kubernetes production environments.
• Demonstrate excellent communication, simplify technical concepts, take initiative, and drive improvements.
• Display excellent organization skills, managing priorities and multiple tasks.

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

Not sure if this job is the right match for you or want to learn more about the job before you apply? Schedule a 15-minute exploratory call with the Recruiter and they would be happy to share more details. Here is the contact info for the recruiter assigned to this position: