Job Description
Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?
Would you like an chance to effect change at a leading technology organization?
Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team.
The team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure supporting Akamai's Compute products and services to enhance global daily experiences.
Partner with the best
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Linux), this role focuses on developing solutions to enhance automation and efficiency for internal teams. Responsibilities include advancing automation, ensuring operational excellence, and supporting customer-facing applications and infrastructure. Success requires innovative thinking and expertise in Linux systems administration, configuration management, performance optimization, and hardware engineering.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- 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.
Do What You Love
To be successful in this role you will:
- 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/O