Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Linux

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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

• Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams, investigate and troubleshoot complex problems. • Developing processes, plans, and infrastructure to deploy new software components and updates safely and efficiently at scale. • Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues. • Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability.

🎯 Requirements

• Have 7+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field • Possess expert level experience in a Systems engineering or DevOps or Software engineering role, working with large scale distributed systems. • Can troubleshoot any kind of systemic issues and develop large scale automations. • Demonstrate proficiency in Python or Golang and hands-on experience with SaltStack, Ansible, and Terraform for infrastructure automation. • Demonstrate expertise with observability or monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, and Splunk. • Gain experience with any cloud platform, such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or an equivalent alternative.

🏖️ Benefits

• We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. • FlexBase adapts to your job's needs. 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.