Job DescriptionDo you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies and tackling distributed system problems?Join our Site Reliability teamOur team designs, deploys, and manages applications and infrastructure that supports Akamai's internal and customer-facing cloud storage platforms. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
Help us shape the future of the InternetIn this role, you will collaborate with our operations and development teams to build and manage our scalable storage platforms, including Block Storage, Object Storage, and backups. You will create tooling to automate the lifecycle of petabyte-scale storage systems. You will work with open-source technologies, including Ceph, to ensure Akamai's storage systems are highly reliable, highly available, and performant.
As a Site Reliability Engineer II, you will be responsible for:
- Deploying storage systems to new locations and provisioning all storage-supporting infrastructure
- Automating repetitive tasks with Bash and Python, increasing the reliability of our storage platforms
- Partnering with multiple engineering teams to support infrastructure projects, improving the scalability of our storage platforms
- Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex storage problems within our compute and networking stacks
- Improving our storage system monitoring and observability, enhancing performance and reliability
- 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 2 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
- Have professional experience in a Site Reliability, Development, or Systems Engineering role, ideally with Ceph or storage systems
- Have professional experience with NGINX and reverse proxies, SSL/TLS certificate management, load-balancing, and caching
- Have experience with automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, or SaltStack
- Be comfortable writing code with scripting languages, including Python and Bash
- Have experience troubleshooting Linux systems with tools like tcpdump, iostat, strace, iftop, netstat, and iotop
- Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills
CompensationAkamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 82,100 - 147,900 CAD/year; a candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. 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, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
