Do you have a passion for network automation?
Do you want to help scale a global platform?
Be part of Akamai's Core IP Networking team
Our team supports Akamai's global backbone and networking technologies by solving operational challenges through code. This position focuses on reducing toil through code, improving our ability to build and scale. As SRE, you will be a crucial part of our ability to deliver global infrastructure connectivity for the next generation of Akamai's services.
Partner with the best
Our SRE team sits directly next to Architecture, Engineering and Ops. We are tasked with identifying the biggest areas for improvement and are responsible for designing and building solutions. With a focus on software, you will be directly responsible for continuously improving Akamai's ability to monitor and operate our backbone.
As a Site Reliability Engineer II, you will be responsible for:
• Designing and building systems that support automated operational workflows and provide deep insights into our global network data
• Identifying and eliminate bottlenecks in operational workflows caused by process inefficiencies, manual toil, and technical debt
• Generating telemetry data and deep observability for network infrastructure
• Architecting our code to be self-sustainable, robust and easily maintainable, focusing on CI/CD, test-driven development, and iterative design
• Supporting and deploying cloud-native, third party software utilizing an infrastructure as code paradigm
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
• Have 2 and more years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field,
• Have programming experience with Python/JavaScript, ability to design and develop scalable full-stack systems using appropriate frameworks and SDLC best practices.
• Have experience with containers, Kubernetes, service orchestration, microservices, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and contemporary DevOps p