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

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

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.

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