Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

Are you intrigued by planetary scale, distributed, intelligent systems?

Do you like to build services that can run themselves? Then this is the role for you!

Join our Performance & Reliability Engineering Organization!

Akamai is the world's largest, most trusted cloud delivery platform. We ensure that infrastructure services have reliability and uptime that meet service level objectives and agreements. SREs monitor our service capacity and performance. We focus on optimizing services, building infrastructure, eliminating manual operations work with automation.

Partner with the best

The UMP Team is a part of the Akamai's Systems Communications group . A cross-functional engineering team that develops the distributed systems and services that underpin Akamai's global network. Our system allows fast and reliable configuration of Akamai's global network. You'll develop automation that prevents service from recurring and handles non-exceptional service conditions to reduce manual operations.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Being a SME and tuning systems to optimize performance and to operate more reliably
• Providing ongoing technical assistance in areas including model database management, configuration management, and simulation runs
• Guiding software releases, automating activations for new features, maintenances of services prioritizing safety
• Developing monitoring tools and automate processes to help scale our systems better
• Implementing and improving monitoring, alerting and emergency response procedures and maneuvers
• Troubleshooting complex application issues, service incidents, performance and availability issues
• Providing expertise developing code that provides predictive results from analytical trending and modeling
• Managing on premises resources through infrastructure, code frameworks and declarative configuration management

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have experience in Computer Science, Engineering and Linux/Unix-like operating systems
• Have Decent knowledge of Web programming technologies and automation by scripting in Python/bash
• Have a significant background in performance analytics and performance optimization
• Have experience with writing queries and big data technologies (PostgreSQL)
• Have commercial experience with deployment/configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack).
• Be experienced in monitoring large scale systems (using Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Have experience with CI/CD tools (i.e. Jenkins, Travis, Gitlab CI)

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best can vary for each person.

This is a flexible role and may be performed at your home and/or the local Akamai office (in the country advertised). We are happy to discuss working options in this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

Working with us

At Akamai, were curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

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

Innovating on a global scale, we deliver our customers a fast, smart and secure intelligent edge platform. Working against a backdrop of digital collaboration, our highly skilled teams build progressive solutions that have the scope to transform entertainment, business, and life in ways that we have yet to imagine.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to learn and make a real impact in a global technology company? Come join us and learn with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

Akamai is committed to complying with COVID-19 requirements in the countries where it operates. For locations or roles subject to vaccination mandates, we require proof of vaccination, if permitted, as a condition of employment. We will provide additional details regarding our vaccine record submission protocols during the hiring and onboarding process.

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