Job DescriptionDo you have a passion for cutting edge technologies and tackling system problems?Are you a self-starting professional who thrives in a dynamic environment?Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team!Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services and compute hardware. You will drive automation, operational excellence, and support our customer facing applications and infrastructure. 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 bestIn this role, you'll focus on developing and implementing automation and efficiency of the Akamai compute infrastructure and services. This requires creative thinking combined with deep domain expertise on Linux, hardware, and performance tuning.
As a Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
- Providing support, leadership and motivation for project teams
- Creating and maintaining SLOs and KPIs, collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Support teams
- Engaging with our support, operations, hardware, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems, including incident management and post-mortem reviews
- Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
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
- Have experience with architecting hardware, software, and infrastructure at scale
- Possess expert-level experience in a Development or SysAdmin role, working with large scale distributed systems
- Have the ability to align with strategic business initiatives and coordinate the work of other engineers
- Demonstrate excellent communication, mentorship, and interpersonal skills
- Possess informed opinions on technology and software design to bring to the table
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.
