Senior Site Reliability Engineer

🕒 May 18

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Akamai Technologies

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

📱 Media

Cybersecurity • Enterprise • Media

Akamai Technologies is a global edge platform and cloud services company that delivers content delivery, edge computing, and security solutions. The company operates one of the world’s largest distributed networks to accelerate and protect web, media, and application traffic, offering products for content delivery, DDoS protection, API and app security, bot management, edge compute (serverless/edge functions), and AI inference at the edge. Akamai also provides enterprise-focused security services (zero trust, identity and access management, secure internet access) and cloud/AI infrastructure tools, and has recently expanded capabilities through acquisitions (for example LayerX) to add browser-based AI usage control.

📋 Description

• Investigating and troubleshoot networking problems within Linux based networking stack • Monitoring the functioning and performance of the networking infrastructure via Prometheus metric systems and Grafana dashboards • Solving complex problems in a timely and accurate manner and avoid recurrence through proactive troubleshooting, automation, and systems programming • Building software tools and systems to automate analytical tasks and workflows to increase efficiency and reliability. • Leveraging skills in data analysis, network diagnostics and debugging tools to characterize performance and recommend improvements.

🎯 Requirements

• Have 5+ years' experience in Site Reliability or System Engineering role, and bachelor's degree in computer science or related field • Have expertise in L7 traffic management (Envoy, HAProxy, NGINX) in large-scale distributed systems. • Be proficient in coding with Python, Perl, R, Java, or SQL & have networking knowledge including routing, firewalls, and DNS • Have experience with Linux systems and tools such as netstats, traceroute, tcpdump • Be proficient in configuration management and container technologies including Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, and Nomad

🏖️ Benefits

• We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. • Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.