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Akamai Technologies, Inc. Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Remote in United States
Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?
Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies and tackling system problems?
Join our highly skilled Site Reliability Engineering team
Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We specialize in creating solutions that manage Compute platform, focusing on identity and access management (IAM) solutions. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
Partner with the best
In this role, you'll be responsible for ensuring smooth operation and up-time of our Compute services and infrastructure. You'll supervise and maintain our critical infrastructure and collaborate with our operations and development teams to creating tooling and software that monitors and improves the reliability of our systems. You'll work with various technologies as we release brand new applications and modernize our existing tooling.
As a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
Providing support and mentorship for other SRE engineers within the team
Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
Deploying and maintaining the platform and tools used internally
Partnering with multiple teams to ensure the availability, reliability, scalability and usability of our products and services
Solving complex problems in a timely and accurate manner through proactive troubleshooting, automation and systems programming
Improving our Compute IAM platform to speed error detection & remediation, enhancing performance and reliability
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
Have professional experience in a Site Reliability, Development, or Systems Engineering role, with large scale distributed systems
Have extensive experience with more than one programing language such as Python, Golang, and Bash
Have extensive experience with configuration management at scale using Saltstack, Ansible, or Terraform
Have hands on experience with monitoring and logging tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki or similar
Possess an understanding of best practices related to systems reliability, observability and monitoring incl. adherence to SLOs.
Work in a way that works for you
FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.
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Working for you
At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:
Your health
Your finances
Your family
Your time at work
Your time pursuing other endeavors
Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.
About us
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.
Join us
Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!
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Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from $126,100 - $261,900/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.