Software Development Engineer in Test
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About the Position
Are you excited to work with innovative security products? Do you relish the prospect of working with cutting-edge network security systems? Join our world-class Enterprise Security Team at Akamai.
Our Team builds and delivers 'zero trust security solutions' for enterprise customers. Our mission is to provide Threat protection and API Based Security solutions. We provide the simplest, fastest, and most intuitive way to enforce Zero Trust principles. We enable customers to proactively identify, block, and mitigate threats in their network and SAAS Applications.
Responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for:
- Building test strategy and automation for products of Next generation API Based Security and threat protection solutions
- Taking ownership for test execution, test automation, identifying and bringing in tools to assist the testing goal
- Collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment on code, design, test plan, and automation framework review
- Working closely with the development team to enhance new releases and testing processes
- Coordinating and participating in customer installs and demos
Requirements
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 2+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
- Have experience automating using Python/GoLang and shell scripting techniques effectively
- Be comfortable working in a Linux/Unix environment
- Have expertise in Networking, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, HTTPs
- Have expertise in REST APIs, Database, and SQL
- Have experience in CI/CD tools and any Automation framework
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.
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Akamai provides cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing content and business applications over the Internet. As a global leader in content delivery network, or CDN services, the goal is to make the Internet faster, more reliable and more secure for customers and users around the world from many different industries. Akamai makes it easier for businesses around the world to deliver the best and most secure digital experiences, faster performance, stronger security, or seamless media delivery.The Akamai Intelligent Platform is a global network of specialized cloud servers that accelerate and secure the delivery of web content and web applications on behalf of many of the world’s leading brands.The Akamai Intelligent Platform is a distributed cloud computing platform that operates worldwide. It is a network of over 350,000 servers deployed in more than 135 countries. These servers reside in more than 1,500 of the world’s networks gathering real-time information about traffic, congestion, and trouble spots.