Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer building observability, automation, and Kubernetes tooling for Akamai's distributed cloud and edge platform. Improving reliability, scalability, and performance across Compute services.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and manage applications and infrastructure supporting Akamai's Compute products and services
  • Create solutions that improve observability and enforce SLAs across internal teams
  • Collaborate with operations and application development teams
  • Create tooling and software that monitors and improves system reliability
  • Solve complex problems through proactive troubleshooting, automation, and systems programming
  • Deploy and maintain the observability platform and internal tooling
  • Partner across teams to ensure product and service reliability, scalability, and usability
  • Guide engineers and developers in assessing service performance
  • Collaborate with support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
  • Release new applications and modernize existing tooling

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
  • 6 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a related engineering role
  • Linux system administration expertise
  • Understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing/switching, and storage concepts
  • Hands-on experience with containerized environments and Kubernetes, including operating and troubleshooting production systems
  • Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices
  • Hands-on experience using Jenkins, Git, Prometheus, and Grafana
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, or similar tools
  • Exposure to cloud storage systems
  • Automation/scripting skills using Python, Bash, Go, Rust, or similar languages

Benefits:

  • Health, well-being, financial, and broader life-support benefits
  • FlexBase flexible workplace options: work from home, in an office, or a combination of both