Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Role Responsibilities

• Ensure the operation and uptime of Compute services and infrastructure.
• Provide support and mentorship for other SRE engineers.
• Define product lifecycle requirements that influence designs and standards.
• Deploy and maintain internal platforms and tools.
• Improve availability, reliability, scalability, and usability across products and services.
• Improve the Compute Cloud Interface platform for faster error detection, remediation, performance, and reliability.
• Develop automation to support daily activities and reduce toil.
• Participate in on-call rotations and guide service restoration.
• Troubleshoot and resolve customer escalations and incidents with internal teams.

Success Profile

• 5 years of relevant experience and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Experience automating with Python and/or Golang and scripting languages such as Bash.
• Understanding of systems reliability, observability, monitoring, and SLO adherence.
• Experience with SaltStack, Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD solutions such as Jenkins.
• Hands-on mastery of Linux administration and container-based platforms such as Docker.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, web proxies, and performance optimization solutions such as Redis.

About Akamai

Workplace Flexibility

• Akamai's FlexBase program supports employees working at home, in an office, or through a combination of both, according to job needs.

Benefits

• Akamai states that its benefits support employee health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.