Job DescriptionDo you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?Do you have a passion for automation and building systems that scale?Join our highly skilled Site Reliability Engineering team!Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai Cloud's products and services. Our SRE teams solve reliability, security, and usability at scale for our global fleet 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 bestIn this role, you will focus on configuration management, IAC, and CI/CD. You will design, develop, and operate infrastructure deployment for the Akamai Cloud.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Designing, developing, testing, and operating critical services that support the reliability, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure.
- Designing and implementing observability solutions, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry capabilities, to proactively detect and resolve issues
- Driving reliability improvements through automation, reducing operational toil and increasing the resilience of engineering processes.
- Developing deep technical expertise in IAC systems and serving as a trusted technical resource, mentoring engineers and sharing best practices
- Collaborating with software engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams to investigate complex production issues, identify root causes, and implement long-term corrective actions.
- Participating in an on-call rotation and providing leadership during incident response, driving timely service restoration, effective communication, and post-incident improvement efforts.
Do what you loveTo be successful in this role you will:
- Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
- Possess advanced experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI/CD.
- Have extensive development skills in languages such as Python, Go, or Bash.
- Have experience integrating security, compliance, and quality controls into CI/CD pipelines, including automated testing, artifact management, and deployment strategies
- Utilize tools such as SaltStack, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to manage infrastructure as code effectively and efficiently.
- Demonstrate advanced experience in a site reliability or software engineering role, working with large-scale distributed systems.
CompensationAkamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $121,400 - $218,600/year; a candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
