DevOps Engineer - Remote

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 team

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We specialize in creating solutions that help improve observability and enforce SLAs across all internal teams. 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

As a DevOps Engineer, you will collaborate with our operations and development teams. Together, you will be creating tooling and software that monitors and improves the reliability of our systems. You will work with various technologies as we release brand new applications and modernize our existing tooling.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• 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
• Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
• Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
• Working with Dev and Quality Assurance teams to create more robust solutions, code improvement and stability

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent
• Have good analytical and troubleshooting skills, ability to extrapolate from incomplete information
• Have the ability to take ownership and deliver results
• Experience using one of the coding languages such as Python, Golang, and familiarity with scripting programming languages
• Experience using automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, or Salt Stack
• Experience working on Kubernetes will be great
• Possess an understanding of following monitoring and logging tools: Prometheus, Nagios, Grafana, Loki or similar
• Possess an understanding of best practices related to observability and monitoring

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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We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're 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

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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