Senior Site Reliability Engineer

🕒 June 11

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $120.4k - $216.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Akamai Technologies

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2001-07

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.

📋 Description

• Owning the SRE infrastructure lifecycle from design reviews and pre-rollout readiness assessments through production sign-off and ongoing reliability management • Designing and implementing frameworks that reflect customer experience for load balancing services and driving action when error budgets are at risk • Building and maintaining observability pipelines from load-balancing components and system-level sources to dashboards that enable rapid incident triage • Leading technical incident response for complex NB/NLB failures, acting as the technical commander and driving root cause analysis and preventive follow-through • Developing and automating safe deployment workflows for phased releases, including bake-period monitoring, feature flag management, and validation across global datacenter rollouts • Reviewing design documents, product-requirement documents and producing actionable SRE input on operational risks, capacity implications, Day-2 concerns, and product strategy gaps • Building automation and tooling using Python or Go that reduces operational toil and improves team-wide operational capability

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering, working with large-scale distributed systems • Demonstrate deep expertise with Linux networking fundamentals and diagnosing at the packet level using tcpdump, netstat, and similar tools • Have hands-on experience with L4/L7 load balancing technologies covering configuration, health checking, high availability, and failure modes at scale • Show a track record of defining SLO/SLI frameworks, building observability platforms from scratch, and running incident management processes at scale • Demonstrate expertise in Kubernetes and containerization at scale including workload scheduling, networking, resource management, and operating stateful or network-intensive workloads in a cluster environment • Build automation and tooling using Python or Go, with infrastructure-as-code experience (SaltStack, Ansible, or Terraform) and deployment safety instincts.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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