Researcher Senior - Remote

Do you relish the prospect of working with global scale distributed systems?

Do you love collaborating with teams to solve complex problems?

Join our exceptional technical team

Our Reliability Risk Management team's mission is to safeguard our critical systems by capturing risks, providing expert analysis of risks. When identified, we track risks to mission critical services and ensure they are quickly remediated to maintain a world-class level for reliability and performance.

Make a difference to a vital part of our business

You'll work across Akamai's engineering teams, safeguarding the operational platform architecture of Akamai's key products. You will use your expertise to improve the risk management program in accordance with industry best practices. We create a rock solid experience for the largest distributed systems in the world.

As a Researcher Senior, you will be responsible for:

• Grooming and managing the technical risk backlog to ensure all risks have complete and accurate data
• Performing risk analysis to characterize the observed risk, working closely with engineering teams to gather required information
• Driving the characterization of individual risks from start to finish, aiding though research information to help assign a risk score with probability and severity assessments
• Proposing success criteria and developing solutions to remediate, mitigate, or eliminate risks to ensure systems reliability
• Providing deep analysis of technical material including architecture documents and specifications.
• Synthesizing and extracting relevant information from technical documentation including but not limited to architectural designs and specifications
• Researching Akamai and industry best practices and trends to identify and update risk governance standards to help maintain the effectiveness of the risk management program.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 6 years of industry experience
• Possess experience in a role with operational responsibility for business-critical production system
• Demonstrate familiarity with networking and foundational protocols of the Internet, including TCP, UDP, DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP
• Possess Linux OS and/or Jira Confluence experience
• Possess working experience with the implementation and/or operation of distributed systems and/or cloud computing
• Be eager to know how and why things work, and how to improve them
• Be able to apply system thinking and identify the key factors without needing all the low-level details

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!