Do you like collaborating across teams to solve complex problems?

Do you enjoy solving large scale distributed content delivery challenges?

Join our critical Platform and Reliability Engineering Team!

We are responsible for defining, measuring, & optimising the key performance indicators of delivery customers. Your expertise in software engineering and systems administration will be instrumental in building robust and resilient infrastructure.

Partner with the best

You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our products. You'll collaborate closely with product teams from earliest development stages to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems. You'll define key performance indicators (KPIs). Advance the state of monitoring, alerting and operational responses, and investigate complex performance issues.

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

• Working on Internet technologies to improve the performance, availability, and scalability of large distributed content delivery systems
• Collaborating with Product & engineering, to define and establish measurable Service Level Indicators and Service Level Objectives.
• Providing technical expertise and feedback to ensuring system designs and implementations meet reliability and performance requirements.
• Monitoring platform availability and performance, debugging issues by leveraging data analysis skills and implementing corrective actions
• Developing and implementing automation solutions to improve operational efficiency and reduce toil.
• Staying current with the latest advancements in cloud computing, DevOps, and SRE best practices

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 2+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering/related field.
• Have good experience in coding and scripting languages (C/C++, Python, bash, JavaScript etc)
• Have experience utilising Oracle SQL for data integrity checks, root cause analysis of data anomalies, and reporting
• Have experience with monitoring and alerting systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ADBMS, Datadog)
• Show fluency working in a UNIX/Linux computing environment
• Be able to work effectively with cross-functional teams and have good communication and collaboration skills.

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 power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. 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. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• 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.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. 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!