Senior Site Reliability Engineer

🕒 May 11

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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

• Providing support and mentorship for other engineers within the department • Developing and maintaining automated tools and scripts to enhance system reliability, deployment processes, and incident response efficiency. • Improving our system monitoring to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability of virtualization platform • Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues • Writing automation and tooling to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and accelerate incident response • Contributing to capacity planning, autoscaling configuration, and workload scheduling for AI compute infrastructure

🎯 Requirements

• Possess expert level experience in a SysAdmin (Linux/Unix Administration), DevOps or SRE role, working with large scale distributed systems • Demonstrate expertise in Kubernetes and large-scale containerization systems. • Possess at least one programming language (Python/Golang) and configuration management with Terraform/SaltStack/Ansible • Define SLOs and work with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing to enhance system monitoring. • Have experience with architecting software and infrastructure at scale • Demonstrate accountability for reliability, develop automation and monitoring, and collaborate effectively with an engineering team unfamiliar with SRE practices.

🏖️ Benefits

• Your health • Your finances • Your family • Your time at work • Your time pursuing other endeavors