Lead Senior Site Reliability Engineer II - Remote Poland

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 Engineering 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 manage Compute platform. We are focusing on identity and access management (IAM) solutions.

Partner with the best

As a Lead Senior Site Reliability Engineer II, you will lead a team of engineers ensuring smooth operation of our Compute services and infrastructure. 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 using various technologies as we release brand new applications and modernize our existing tooling.

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

• Providing support and mentorship for other SRE engineers within the team
• Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
• Deploying and maintaining the platform and tools used internally
• Solving complex problems in a timely and accurate manner through proactive troubleshooting, automation and systems programming
• Improving our Compute IAM 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 Engineering and QE teams to deliver robust solutions, code improvements and stability enhancements.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have the ability to take ownership and deliver results, with a proven track record of leading teams (of 5+ engineers)
• Be experienced in one of the programming languages such as Python and/or Go, and familiar with scripting programming languages
• Hold experience in automation and configuration management tools such as SaltStack, Terraform and Ansible, as well as CI/CD solutions such as Jenkins, CloudBees or similar
• Have hands-on mastery in Linux administration and container-based platforms like Docker
• Have hands on experience with monitoring and logging tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki or similar, as well as APMs such as Sentry and NewRelic.
• Possess an understanding of best practices related to systems reliability, observability and monitoring incl. adherence to SLOs.
• Have experience with architecting software and infrastructure at scale

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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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.

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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!