Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the Position

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability Engineering team at Akamai to enhance the reliability, scalability, and performance of infrastructure systems.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be:

• Designing, developing, testing, and operating essential services to enhance the reliability, scalability, and performance of infrastructure systems.
• Designing and implementing observability solutions, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry, to identify and address issues before customer impact.
• Enhancing reliability via automation, minimizing operational toil, and boosting resilience within engineering processes.
• Developing extensive expertise in ACDC systems and acting as a reliable resource, guiding engineers and sharing effective practices team-wide.
• Collaborating closely with software engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams to resolve complex production issues, determine root causes, and implement solutions.
• Participating in an on-call rotation and delivering technical expertise during incidents, ensuring prompt restoration, clear communication, and post-incident enhancements.

Requirements

To be successful in this role you will:

• Demonstrate expertise in Ansible through playbook development, role creation, automation workflows, and enterprise-scale configuration management processes.
• Manage Infrastructure as Code solutions utilizing tools like Terraform, SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or comparable technologies effectively and efficiently.
• Design, develop, and deploy software and infrastructure at scale within a Linux environment with advanced-level expertise.
• Demonstrate advanced experience in a site reliability or software engineering role, working with large-scale distributed systems.
• Have great communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrate accountability for reliability, develop automation and monitoring, and collaborate effectively with an engineering team unfamiliar with SRE practices.

We Offer

At Akamai, we support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.

About the Company

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether you’re streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we’re the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world’s most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery: Scaling the world’s biggest moments without a glitch.

AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world’s most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don’t just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we’re the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.