Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the Position

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai’s Compute products and services. We do this while maintaining Akamai’s mission at the forefront of what we do. Make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

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The Senior Engineer creates solutions to improve automation and efficiency for systems and teams. Responsibilities include optimizing workflows, infrastructure, and applications. Expertise in Linux administration, configuration management, and performance tuning is essential. Collaborate on deployment, monitoring, and resolving incidents. Focus on reliability, scalability, and efficiency through automation and resource optimization. Promote continuous improvement and operational excellence across all systems.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be:

• Providing support and mentorship for other engineers within the department
• Developing and maintaining automated tools and scripts to enhance system reliability, deployment processes, and incident response efficiency.
• Improving our system monitoring to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability of virtualization platform
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
• Writing automation and tooling to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and accelerate incident response
• Contributing to capacity planning, autoscaling configuration, and workload scheduling for AI compute infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Optimize workflows, infrastructure, and applications
• Collaborate on deployment, monitoring, and incident resolution
• Focus on reliability, scalability, and efficiency through automation
• Promote continuous improvement and operational excellence

Requirements

• Expert level experience in SysAdmin (Linux/Unix Administration), DevOps, or SRE role, working with large-scale distributed systems
• Expertise in Kubernetes and large-scale containerization systems
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python/Golang) and configuration management with Terraform/SaltStack/Ansible
• Define SLOs and work with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing to enhance system monitoring
• Experience with architecting software and infrastructure at scale
• Accountability for reliability, development of automation and monitoring, and effective collaboration with an engineering team

We Offer

• Opportunity to build your career at a leading company
• Various development opportunities, including programs like GROW and Mentoring, and internal events like the APEX Expo
• Access to tools such as LinkedIn Learning to expand your knowledge and experience

About the Company

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow, and have a meaningful impact.

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