Site Reliability Engineer, Level II

November 10

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Akamai Technologies

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Cloud Computing • Cybersecurity • Content Delivery

Akamai Technologies is a leading cloud services provider that specializes in delivering security, cloud computing, and content delivery solutions. It offers a range of services such as API security, DDoS protection, and performance optimization for web applications, ensuring secure and reliable user experiences. With a robust global infrastructure, Akamai empowers businesses to streamline their digital presence while safeguarding against various cyber threats and enhancing application performance.

5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2001-07

📋 Description

• Designing, building and extending internal automation tools written in Bash and Python, handling system provisioning, configuration and lifecycle operations • Qualifying and benchmarking servers using a wide range of performance monitoring and profiling tools, ensuring hardware meets reliability and efficiency standards • Investigating incidents as well as performing root-cause analysis • Developing and deploying hardware monitoring solutions, defining meaningful SLIs and SLOs to drive observability and performance accountability • Assembling and maintaining custom Linux images (e.g. via Packer) optimized for diverse hardware and operational contexts • Automating configuration management using SaltStack, ensuring consistent and reproducible environments • Packaging, distributing and maintaining internal Debian packages, enabling standardized software delivery across environments • Participating in an on-call rotation, providing support and incident response outside business hours

🎯 Requirements

• Have expertise in Linux system internals and kernel interactions • Have good command of Bash and Python for automation, diagnostics and tool development • Possess experience with SaltStack (or other configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.) • Demonstrate solid grasp of networking fundamentals and display the ability to build and maintain Debian packages • Be familiar with observability/monitoring ecosystems such as Prometheus, Grafana, etc. • Exhibit knowledge of Git and version control workflows • Be comfortable participating in an on-call rotation outside business hours

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Professional development opportunities • Flexible working hours