Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?
Do solving some of the Internet's most difficult content delivery challenges interest you?
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.
As a Senior II 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, performance tuning, and hardware engineering.
As a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Providing support and mentorship for other Linux engineers within the department
- Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
- Providing support, leadership and motivation for project teams
- Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
- Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability
To be successful in this role you will:
- Demonstrate at least LFCS certificate level of knowledge. Certificate is not required, but knowledge is mandatory
- Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Engineering, Computer Science or its equivalent
- Possess expert level experience in a SRE, DevOps, Development, or SysAdmin role working with large scale distributed systems
- Possess deep knowledge of Linux Kernel, performance tuning, hardening services; knowledge about QEMU will be great
- Possess at least one programming language (Python/Golang) and configuration management with Terraform/SaltStack
- Have experience with architecting software, and infrastructure at scale
- Be able to work in alignment with strategic business initiatives and coordinate the work of other engineers
- Possess informed opinions on technology and software design to bring to the table
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.
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.
