Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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 highly skilled Site Reliability team

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do. make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Partner with the best

As a Senior SRE, you will specialize in creating solutions that improve automation and efficiencies across all internal teams. You will drive automation, operational excellence, and support our customer facing applications and infrastructure. This will require creative thinking combined with deep domain expertise in the areas of Linux systems administration. configuration management, automation, software development.

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

• Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
• Building tools, automating tasks, deployments, troubleshooting and reducing toil
• Improving SLOs/SLIs, observability, increasing reliability at scale
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
• Participating in architecture of new projects

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5 y of relevant experience and a Bachelor's in Computer Science or its equivalent
• Possess expert level experience in a Site Reliability Engineering/DevOps/Software Development/SysAdmin role, working with large scale distributed systems
• Have experience with building tools for automation and infrastructure at scale(eg. python, terraform, saltstack, jenkins)
• Have experience with SLO & Observability tools, eg. Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
• Demonstrate great communication and interpersonal skills and be able to work independently and with a team
• Be able to take ownership of the work you do, communicate all the needs, come with propositions of solutions
• Possess informed opinions on technology and software design to bring to the table

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

Through our intern and co-op programs we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Financial benefits offered to interns and co-ops, including a 401k and health insurance, are offered through our managed service provider (MSP). Students also gain the following benefits directly from our programs:

• Mentorship
• Career development trainings
• Visibility into senior leadership through Fireside Chats
• Networking and social events with an international intern cohort
• Final project showcase presented to the company
• Fun perks including Akamai branded merchandise

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 learn and make a real impact in a global technology company? Come join us and learn with a team of people who will energize and inspire you! By the end of your assignment, you will gain a network of encouraging colleagues ready to support you in your studies and beyond.