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

As Site Reliability Engineer II, 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 II, 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 2-3 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.

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: